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Nel contributo viene presentata la checklist commentata delle specie di Odonata censite negli anni tra il 2009 e il 2013 nella Riserva Naturale “Macchia di Gattaceca e Macchia del Barco”, settore del cosiddetto “arcipelago mentanese cornicolano” a nord-est dell’area urbana di Roma. Il numero delle specie censite ammonta a 26, 10 Zygoptera e 16 anisoptera, su un totale di 57 specie segnalate nel Lazio. Per ciascuna specie sono riportati dati fenologici relativi al periodo di volo e ad altri aspetti significativi del ciclo biologico.

Morphological variation among a population of Testudo graeca from two neighbouring sites of the Nemrut Volcano has been analysed, and six morphometric characters have been assessed in 305 specimens, mainly adults. This population shows remarkable morphometric differences. Macrohabitat differences among sites have been involved to explain this variability in the light of the huge morphological plasticity of this wide-ranging taxon.

A review of the scorpions (three species of the genus Euscorpius, family Chactidae) found in the urban habitat of Rome, Central Italy, together with an analysis of the factors which affect their distribution and abundance in the town, is pointed out. It appears that Euscorpius carpathicus, a species commonly found on limestone terrains in Latium, is frequent, though not particularly abundant, in the urban area of the city especially along the course of the Tiber River. It appears that Euscorpius flavicaudis, a species commonly found on volcanic terrains in Latium and the most common terrains in and around the area of Rome, is the most common species in both the urban and suburban areas of the city. It appears that Euscorpius italicus, a species common in north and northeastern Latium, is represented, in the sample of the scorpions of the city, by a single, possibly aberrant, specimen.

The authors report the finding of eight individuals of Salamandrina perspicillata (Savi, 1821) with aberrant body colour discovered within a large population of the species in the Natural Reserve “Macchia di Gattaceca and Macchia del Barco” (Campagna Romana, Latium).

19 páginas, 8 figuras, 3 tables et al.., The European Union has adopted the ambitious target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Several indicators have been proposed to assess progress towards the 2010 target, two of them addressing directly the issue of species decline. In Europe, the Fauna Europaea database gives an insight into the patterns of distribution of a total dataset of 130,000 terrestrial and freshwater species without taxonomic bias, and provide a unique opportunity to assess the feasibility of the 2010 target. It shows that the vast majority of European species are rare, in the sense that they have a restricted range. Considering this, the paper discusses whether the 2010 target indicators really cover the species most at risk of extinction. The analysis of a list of 62 globally extinct European taxa shows that most contemporary extinctions have affected narrow-range taxa or taxa with strict ecological requirements. Indeed, most European species listed as threatened in the IUCN Red List are narrow-range species. Conversely, there are as many wide-range species as narrow-range endemics in the list of protected species in Europe (Bird and Habitat Directives). The subset of biodiversity captured by the 2010 target indicators should be representative of the whole., We thank Melina Verbeek, Fedor Steeman and Claire Basire (Fauna Europaea Project Bureau), and Anastasios Legakis, Trudy Brannan and Alfonso Navas Sanchez (Fauna Europaea Steering Committee) for their assistance in the implementation of the Fauna Europaea project. Grateful acknowledgements to Gregoire Lois (MNHN) who helped with the listing of protected species, and to Maurice Kottelat who provided invaluable data on extinct and threatened fish.

Vignoli, Valerio, Kovařík, František, Crucitti, Pierangelo (2003): Scorpiofauna of Kashan (Esfahan Province, Iran) (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Euscorpius 9: 1-7, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss9.1, URL: https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2003/iss9/1/