Collezione entomologica di curculionidi di Piero Abbazzi | Piero Abbazzi's entomological collection of weevils

Occurrence
Latest version published by Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo on Jan 8, 2026 Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo
Publication date:
8 January 2026
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

Weevil collection (superfamily: Curculionoidea), assembled by Piero Abbazzi in the second half of the 20th century, mainly composed of Italian and European specimens.

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

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Di Natale S, Lori E, Fracassi E (2026). Collezione entomologica di curculionidi di Piero Abbazzi | Piero Abbazzi's entomological collection of weevils. Version 1.0. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.ibbr.cnr.it/ipt/resource?r=mzuf-abb&v=1.0

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GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Stefano Di Natale
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Botanica Filippo Parlatore
IT-50121 Firenze
IT
Elisabetta Lori
  • Originator
  • Curator
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Zoologia La Specola
  • Via Romana, 17
50125 Firenze
IT
Enrico Fracassi
  • Originator
  • Curator
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Zoologia La Specola
  • Via Romana, 17
50125 Firenze
Toscana
IT
UNIFI-SMA Sistema Museale di Ateneo - Università di Firenze
  • User

Geographic Coverage

Mostly Italian and European specimens

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Order Coleoptera
Superfamily Curculionoidea

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1960-01-01 / 2020-03-08

Project Data

ITINERIS is coordinated by the CNR (National Research Council). It started in November 2022, and during 30 (+6) months will carry out an ensemble of cross-disciplinary actions across the different environmental sub-domains, with the main aim to build the network of the Italian environmental Research Infrastructures, connect it to the user community and establish access, through the ITINERIS HUB, to the vast array of knowledge, data, analytical tools, and service produced by the participating RIs.

Title ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System
Identifier CUP B53C22002150006
Funding EU – Next Generation EU PNRR - Mission 4 “Education and Research” – Component 2: “From research to business” – Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”

The personnel involved in the project:

Stefano Di Natale
  • Content Provider
Lorenzo Cecchi
  • Point Of Contact
Elisabetta Lori
  • Content Provider
Enrico Fracassi
  • Content Provider
Gianna Innocenti
  • Point Of Contact

Collection Data

Collection Name Collezione entomologica di Piero Abbazzi | Piero Abbazzi's entomological collection
Collection Identifier https://registry.gbif.org/collection/8bad6a72-0033-4b60-b6c8-b06f178ff250
Parent Collection Identifier https://registry.gbif.org/collection/7856d07e-2e9b-4b56-a524-c2e1b830e40a
Specimen preservation methods Dried,  Pinned

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements We thank the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by EU – Next Generation EU Mission 4 “Education and Research” – Component 2: “From research to business” – Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures” – Project IR0000032 – ITINERIS – Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System – CUP B53C22002150006.
Alternative Identifiers https://ipt.ibbr.cnr.it/ipt/resource?r=mzuf-abb