Davide Sassi

Davide Sassi, Italian entomologist

• Freelancer for the Natural History Museum of Milano

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 2 taxon names authored by Davide Sassi

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1987

• Tintori, A. & Sassi, D. 1987. Pesci volanti del genere Thoracopterus nel Norico Lombardo. Nota preliminare. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 93(3): 337–346. Reference page. 

1997

• Sassi, D. 1997. Cryptocephalus (Homalopus) loebli n. sp. from Turkey (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Cryptocephalinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 104(1): 57–60. BHL.

1998

• Sassi, D. & Regalin, R. 1998. Cryptocephalus (Burlinius) biondii n. sp. dell'arcipelago sardo-corso e dell'isola di Capraia (Toscana) (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 130(2): 135–146. PDF. Reference page. 

1999

• Borowiec, L. & Sassi, D. 1999. Four new species of Cyrtonota Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus 10(1): 89–101. PDF.

2001

• Borowiec, L. & Sassi, D. 2001. Aslamidium (s. str.) bolivianum, a new species from Bolivia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Hispinae). Genus 12(4): 483–487. PDF.

2002

• Leonardi, C. & Sassi, D. 2001. Studio critico sulle specie di Cryptocephalus del gruppo hypochaeridis (Linné, 1758) e sulle forme ad esse attribuite (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Atti della Società italiana di Scienze naturali e del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Milano 142(1): 3–96. BHL. Reference page. 
• Sassi, D. & Zoia, S. 2002. Cryptocephalus (Burlinius) plantaris from Sicily and Malta, species resurrected from synonymy with C. (B.) luridicollis (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 134(2): 111–116. PDF. Reference page. 
• Gök, A. & Sassi, D. 2002. A new species of genus Cryptocephalus Müller, 1764 from Southwest Turkey (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Annales Zoologici 52(1): 155–156.

2003

• Sassi, D. & Schöller, M. 2003. Two new species of Pachybrachis Chevrolat, 1837 closely related to P. limbatus (Ménétriés, 1836) (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae). Senckenbergiana biologica 82(1/2): 135–156. Reference page. 

2008

• Sassi, D. 2008. Cyrtonota timida, a new species from Colombia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini). Genus 19(2): 291–295. PDF

2013

• Montagna, M., Sassi, D. & Giorgi, A. 2013. Pachybrachis holerorum (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae), a new species from the Apennines, Italy, identified by integration of morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 3741(2): 243–253. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.2.3 . Reference page. 

2014

• Sassi, D. 2014. Taxonomic remarks, phylogeny and evolutionary notes on the leaf beetle species belonging to the Cryptocephalus sericeus complex (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Zootaxa 3857(3): 333–378. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3857.3.2 Reference page. 

2015

• Sassi, D. 2015. Two new species of Metallactus from Bolivia and Brazil (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55(2): 703–712. PDF. Reference page. 

2016

• Magoga, G., Sassi, D., Daccordi, M., Leonardi, C., Mirzaei, M., Regalin, R., Lozzia, G. & Montagna, M. 2016. Barcoding Chrysomelidae: a resource for taxonomy and biodiversity conservation in the Mediterranean Region. In: Jolivet, P., Santiago-Blay, J. & Schmitt, M. (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae 6. ZooKeys 597: 27–38. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.597.7241. Reference page. 
• Montagna, M., Zoia, S., Leonardi, C., Di Taddeo, V., Caldara, R. & Sassi, D. 2016. Colasposoma dauricum Mannerheim, 1849 an Asian species adventive to Piedmont, Italy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae). Zootaxa 4097(1): 127–129. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.8 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

2017

• Agrain, F.A., Chamorro, M.L., Cabrera, N., Sassi, D. & Roig-Juñent, S. 2017. A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata). ZooKeys 677: 11–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.677.10778 . Reference page. 

2018

• Sassi, D. 2018. Revision of the Metallactus kollari species-group with a new diagnosis of the genus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Zootaxa 4413(1): 57–110. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.1.2 . Plazi. Reference page. 

2019

• Sassi, D. 2019. Revision of the Metallactus hamifer species-group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Zootaxa 4657(2): 201–245. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.2.1 . Plazi. Reference page. 

2020

• Sassi, D. 2020. Revision of the Metallactus generosus species-group with a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of the endophallus morphology in distinguishing critical sibling species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Zootaxa 4877(1): 148–162. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.1.6 . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Sassi, D. 2020. Four peculiar new Metallactus species from Argentina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae). Fragmenta Entomologica 52(2): 355–364. DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/465 . Reference page. 

2022

• Sassi, D. 2022. Revision of the Metallactus taeniatellus species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Zootaxa 5125(3): 251–282. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.3.1 . Plazi. Reference page. 

2023

• Sassi, D. 2023. Five new species of the genus Griburius Haldeman from Central America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Fragmenta entomologica 55(1): 117–138. DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/1465 . Reference page. 
• Sassi, D. 2023. Revision of the Griburius scutellaris (Fabricius, 1801) species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Zootaxa 5315(6): 501–548. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.6.1 . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Sassi, D. 2023. Griburius leonardii, a new species from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Natural History Sciences 10(s1): 27–30. DOI: 10.4081/nhs.2023.686 . Reference page. 

2024

• Sassi, D. 2024. Revision of the Griburius posticatus (Suffrian, 1866) species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). Zootaxa 5406(2): 201–237. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.1 . Reference page. 

Links

• Davide Sassi. Chrysomelidae.it