title: History of the early dipteran systematics in Italy: from Lyncei to Battista Grassi.
abstract: This presentation starts with Galileo's discovery of the microscope and the first Lyncei. Giovanni Heckius and Francesco Stelluti demonstrated different kinds of mosquitoes. Later, in Florence, the Academy of Cimento solved the problem of mosquito reproduction with the discoveries of Francesco Redi, Pietro Paolo da Sangallo, Giuseppe Del Papa and Giovanni Maria Lancisi in the 18th century. In 19th century Eugenio Ficalbi reviewed the Italian Culicids. Once Battista Grassi solved the cycle of Anopheles and Plasmodia, further researches followed by Golgi, Celli, Marchiafava, Bastianelli and Bignami, as well as by Roland Ross.
authors.affiliation: Section of Biology, University of Siena, S. Maria alle Scotte Hospital, Lotto 1, Piano 1S, 53100 Siena, Italy. baccetti@unisi.it
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baccetti
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history; D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000469:parasitology; D004175:Diptera / Q000145:classification / Q000469:parasitology / Q000502:physiology; D004772:Entomology / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000145:classification / Q000469:parasitology / Q000502:physiology; D007558:Italy; D008288:Malaria / Q000266:history / Q000635:transmission; D010961:Plasmodium / Q000502:physiology; D012098:Reproduction