Francesco Vitali

Francesco Vitali (born 1967), entomologist, Italy and Luxembourg.

National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg, Münster Rd. 24, L-2160 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
7a, rue J. P. Huberty, L-1742 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Author abbreviation: Vitali

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Vitali, F. & Rezbanyai-Reser, L. 2003. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Jamaika, Westindien (Karibik) 5. Bockkäfer, Teil I (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Les Cahiers Magellanes 26: 1–16. Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2005. Notes about European fossil Lepturinae and the description of a new species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae). Lambillionea 105(4): 530–538. ResearchGate .

Vitali, F. 2006. A new cerambycid from Dominican amber and remarks on the fossil Plectromerus-species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Entomapeiron Paleoentomology 1(1): 1–12. Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2007. Notes and taxonomic corrections to the Beiträge von Insektenfauna von Jamaika, Cerambycidae (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Entomapeiron Neoentomology 1(2): 37–59. Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2008. Taxonomic and faunistic notes about the genus Olethrius Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Entomapeiron Neoentomology 2(1): 1–32. ISBN 978-88-87400-15-1. Abstract Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2009. Two new longhorned beetles from Dominican amber (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Denisia 26: 223–230. PDF Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2009. The cerambycids included in Baltic amber: current knowledge status with the description of new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Denisia 26: 231–242. PDF Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2011. Six new fossil Cerambycids included in Baltic and Saxon amber (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Entomapeiron Paleoentomology 4(1): 1–34. Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2011a. Un nouveau Callichromatini de la République démocratique du Congo (Coleoptera Cerambycidae Cerambycinae). L'Entomologiste 67(2): 91-93. Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2011b. Une nouvelle espèce doAcønthocinus dl portugal (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Lambillionea 111(2): 161-164. Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2013. Taxonomic revision of the genus Nemophas Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Lambillionea 113(3): 255–266. Reference page.

Vitali, F. & Goussey, F. 2014. New Acalolepta from the Solomon Islands (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Lambillionea 114(3): 222–226. Reference page.

Chemin, G. & Vitali, F. 2015. Une nouvelle espèce d’Uracanthus Hope, 1833 de Papouasie (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). L’Entomologiste T71(1): 49-51. Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2015. Mesalocerus tetropoides n. gen. n. sp. from Baltic amber: the first fossil member of the tribe Anisarthrini Mamaev & Danilevsky, 1973 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Les Cahiers Magellanes NS 18: 65–69. Reference page.
Huang, G-Q. & Vitali, F. 2015. Note on Rondibilis similis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae). Zootaxa 3981(1): 143–146. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.1.9 Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2016. New Acalolepta from the Philippines (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Lambillionea 116(1): 86–91. Reference page.
Gouverneur, X. & Vitali, F. 2016. Révision de la tribu des Gyaritini Breuning, 1956 et descriptions de nouvelles espèces du Laos (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Les Cahiers Magellanes (NS) 21: 103–124. Reference page.
Gouverneur, X. & Vitali, F. 2016a. Compléments à la révision de la tribu des Gyaritini Breuning, 1956 et description d’un nouveau genre et d’une nouvelle espèce laotienne. Les Cahiers Magellanes (NS) 23: 43-50. Reference page.

Kariyanna, B., Mohan, M., Gupta, R. & Vitali, F. 2017. The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India. Zootaxa 4345(1): 1–317. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1. Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2017. New Acalolepta from the Philippines. 2 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Lambillionea 117(1): 4–6. Reference page.
Vitali, F., Gouverneur, X. & Chemin, G. 2017. Revision of the tribe Cerambycini: redefinition of the genera Trirachys Hope, 1843, Aeolesthes Gahan, 1890 and Pseudaeolesthes Plavilstshikov, 1931 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Les Cahiers Magellanes 26: 40-65. Reference page.
Vitali, F., Gouverneur, X. & Chemin, G. 2017. Revision of the tribe Cerambycini: the genus Cyriopalus Pascoe, 1866 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Les Cahiers Magellanes (NS) 27: 10–22, 7 figs. Reference page.
Vitali, F., Gouverneur, X. & Chemin, G. 2017. Revision of the tribe Cerambycini: new Asian taxa with remarks on the genera Trirachys Hope and Parolesthes Vitali et al. (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Les Cahiers Magellanes (NS) 28: 89–100. Reference page.

Maquart, P-O., Richard, D. & Vitali, F. 2018. Description of two new Obriini Mulsant, 1839 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Tankwa Karoo biome in South Africa and Namibia. Zootaxa 4521(2): 183–190. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.2 Reference page.

Vitali, F. 2019. Catalogue of the types of the Scarabaeidae in the National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg (Coleoptera). Zookeys, 814: 95–114. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.814.32059 Reference page.
Kariyanna, B., Muthugounder, M., Vitali, F. & Kurzawa, J. 2019. Checklist of Disteniidae and Vesperidae (Coleoptera) from India. Oriental Insects 1: 1–13. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2018.1531079 . Reference page.
Kariyanna, B., Gupta, R., Mohan, M. and Vitali, F. 2019. Wood-boring longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of agroforest ecosystem in India. Indian Journal of Entomology 81: 108-126. DOI: 10.5958/0974-8172.2019.00021.X ResearchGate Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2019. On the taxonomic position of Hesperophanes cinereus Blanchard in Gay, 1851 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Zootaxa 4550(3): 431–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.3.11 pdf Reference page.
Vitali, F. & Ellenberger, S. 2019. Sparedrus archaicus n. sp. the first false blister beetle from Burmese amber. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 19(1): 23-27. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Vitali, F. & Yanega, D. 2019. Bulbotrachystola, a substitute name for Centruroides Breuning, 1940 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Zootaxa 4612(3): 441–441. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.3.11 pdf Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2019. Systematic notes on the Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) described from Burmese amber. Palaeoentomology 2(3): 215–218. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.3 . Reference page.

Fanti, F. & Vitali, F. 2020. A new species of the enigmatic genus Kuskaella Fanti & Kupryjanowicz, 2017 (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from Baltic amber. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 20(1): 1-6. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Vitali, F. 2020. A new Nadezhdiella Plavilstshikov, 1931 from Yunnan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Les Cahiers Magellanes N.S. 36: 44-47. Reference page.

Coache, A., Vitali, F. & Maquart, P.O.. 2021. Description of a new species of Conobrium (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Obriini) from São Tomé and Principe. Faunitaxys 9(46): 1–3. Reference page.
Krell, F.-T. & Vitali, F. 2021. Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog-legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae). Papers in Palaeontology 7(4): 2101–2112. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1398 . Reference page.
Medina, M.N.D., Mantilla, L.K., Cabras, A.A. & Vitali, F. 2021. Catalogue of the genus Cereopsius Pascoe 1857 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) in the Philippines with description of a new species from Mindanao. Zootaxa 5061(2): 383–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.2.11. . Reference page.