Biography

Prof. Francesco Andrietti

Department of Biology

University of Milan, Italy

Professor


Email: francesco.andrietti@unimi.it


Qualifications

2009 Contract Professor in History and Philosophy of Sciences

1990 Associate Professor in Comparative Physiology, Behaviour, History of Biology

1982 Associate Professor in General Physiology


Publications (Selected)

  1. ANDRIETTI, F., POLIDORI, C. Carrying unbalanced weights in hovering flights: effect of prey position on load maximization in wasps. In corso di stampa in L.V. Berhardt Ed., “Advances in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 33”, Hauppage, New York: Nova Publisher, pp. 75-98.
  2. ANDRIETTI, F. (2011). The art of managing weapons: the stinging behaviour of solitary wasps in the eyes of past, present and future research. In “Predation in the Hymenoptera: an evolutionary perspective (C. Polidori Ed.)”, pp. 123-198, SIGNPOST PUBLISHING.
  3. POLIDORI, C.,GOBBI, M., CHATENOUD, L., SANTORO, D., MONTANI, O., ANDRIETTI, F. (2010). Taxon-biased diet preference in the “generalist” beetle-hunting wasp Cerceris rubida provides insights on the evolution of prey specialization in apoid wasps. BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, vol. 99, pp. 544-558.
  4. POLIDORI, C., BEVACQUA, S., ANDRIETTI, F. (2010). Do digger wasps time their provisioning activity to avoid cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera:Crabronidae and Chrysididae)? ACTA ETHOLOGICA,vol. 13(1), pp. 11-21.
  5. ANDRIETTI, F. (2010). Saggio introduttivo e note biologiche a “Bonaventura Corti: il giornale degli animaluzzi”(a cura di M.T. Monti), L.S. OLSCHKI, Firenze.
  6. ANDRIETTI, F., GENERALI, D. (2009). Storia e storiografia della scienza: il caso della sistematica, 3a ed.( 1a ed. 2002, 2a ed. 2005). F. ANGELI, Milano, pp. 127-211. \
  7. POLIDORI, C., BORRUSO, L., BOESI, R., ANDRIETTI, F. (2009). Segregation of temporal and spatial distribution between kleptoparasites and parasitoids of the eusocial sweat bee, Lasioglossum malachurum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae, Mutillidae). ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE. vol. 12, pp. 116-129.
  8. POLIDORI, C., BOESI, R., RUZ, L., MONTALVA, J., ANDRIETTI, F. (2009). Prey spectrum and predator-prey relationships of the solitary wasp, Trachypus denticollis, in central Chile (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). STUDIES IN NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT. vol. 44(1), pp. 55-60.
  9. POLIDORI, C., OUADRAGOU, M., GADALLAH, N.S., ANDRIETTI, F. Potential role of evasive flights and nest closures in an African sand wasp, Bembix sp. near capensis Lepeletier 1845 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), against a parasitic satellite fly. (2009). TROPICAL ZOOLOGY. vol. 22, pp. 1-14.
  10. BOESI, R., POLIDORI, C., ANDRIETTI, F. Biology of Lasioglossum (L.) majus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), a largely solitary sweat bee with behavioural adaptations to communality. (2009). JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY. vol. 27, pp. 361-367.
  11. POLIDORI, C., FEDERICI, M., TROMBINO, L., BARBERINI, V., BARBIERI, V., ANDRIETTI, F. Weight, volume and unbalancing: loading constrains of mud dauber wasps carrying mud balls. (2009). JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, pp. 1-8.
  12. BOESI, R., POLIDORI, C., ANDRIETTI, F. Searching for the Right Target: Oviposition and Feeding Behavior in Bombylius Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). (2009). ZOOLOGICAL STUDIES. vol. 48(2), pp. 141-150.
  13. ANDRIETTI, F., CASIRAGHI, M., MARTINOLI, A., POLIDORI, C., MONTRESOR, C. Nesting habits of two spider wasps: Anoplius infuscatus and Episyron sp. (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), with a review of the literature. (2008). ANNALS OF THE SOCIETY OF ENTOMOLOFY OF FRANCE. vol. 44(1), pp. 93-111.
  14. POLIDORI, C., MENDIOLA, P., ASIS, J.D., TORMOS, J., SELFA, J., ANDRIETTI, F. Female-female attraction influences nest establishment in the digger wasp Stizus continuus (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). (2008). ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. vol. 75, pp. 1651-1661.
  15. BOESI R, POLIDORI C, GAYUBO S.F, TORMOS J, ASIS J.D, ANDRIETTI F. (2007). NESTING BIOLOGY, MORPHOLOGICAL REMARKS, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE MATURE LARVA OF MELLINUS ARVENSIS OBSCURUS (HYMENOPTERA: CRABRONIDAE) IN NEPAL. FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST. vol. 90, pp. 184-190 ISSN: 0015-4040.
  16. ANDRIETTI, F. (2007) Optical design in seventeenth-century Italian compound microscopes: A technical account. In FROM MAKERS TO USERS: MICROSCOPES, MARKETS, AND SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES (D. Generali, M.J. Ratcliff Eds., Olschki, 2007), pp. 157-189.
  17. POLIDORI C, BOESI R, PESARINI C, ANDRIETTI F. (2007). Temporal relationship between prey spectrum and population structure in the weevil-hunting wasp Cerceris arenaria (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). ZOOLOGICAL STUDIES. vol. 46(1), pp. 83-91. ISSN: 1021-5506.
  18. POLIDORI C, ZANGHERATTI V, MARTINOLI A, ANDRIETTI F. (2007). Temporal transition of nesting activities in the digger wasp,Bembecinus tridens (Hymenopera: Crabronidae). ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY. vol. 74, pp. 265-275 ISSN: 1125-0003.
  19. POLIDORI, C, FEDERICI M, PESARINI, C, ANDRIETTI F. (2007). Factors affecting spider prey selection by Sceliphron mud-dauber wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in Northern Italy. ANIMAL BIOLOGY. Vol. 578(1), pp. 11-28. ISSN: 1570-7555.
  20. POLIDORI C, PAPADIA C, DISNEY R.H.L, ANDRIETTI F. (2006). ACTIVITY PATTERNS AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE SCUTTLE FLY MEGASELIA OXYBELORUM (DIPTERA: PHORIDAE) AT AGGRREGATIONS OF TWO HOST DIGGER WASPS (HYMENOPTERA: CRABRONIDAE). JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY. vol. 40, pp. 1969-1982 ISSN: 0022-2933.
  21. POLIDORI C, TORMOS J, ASIS J. D, MENDIOLA P, ANDRIETTI F. (2006). A note on variation in nesting strategy of Prionyx kirbii (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) as a consequence of multi-specific shared nesting site, with a description of its prepupa. ENTOMOLOGICA FENNICA. vol. 17, pp. 405-413 ISSN: 0785-8760.
  22. POLIDORI C., ANDRIETTI F. (2006). NEST ABANDONMENT IN THE SOLITARY WASP CERCERIS ARENARIA (HYMENOPTERA: CRABRONIDAE): ESCAPE, LEAVE OPEN OR DESTROY THE DOOR?. SOCIOBIOLOGY. vol. 47, pp. 455-470 ISSN: 0361-6525.
  23. POLIDORI C., CASIRAGHI M., DI LORENZO M., VALARANI B., ANDRIETTI F. (2006). Philopatry, nest choice and aggregation temporal-spatial change in the digger wasp Cerceris arenaria (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY. vol. 24, pp. 155-163. ISSN: 0289-0771.
  24. POLIDORI C., FEDERICI M., PAPADIA C., ANDRIETTI F. (2006). Nest sharing and provisioning activity of females of the digger wasp, Cerceris rubida (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY. vol. 73, pp. 55-65 ISSN: 1125-0003.
  25. BOESI R., POLIDORI C., BEVACQUA S., TORMOS J., ASIS J. D., ANDRIETTI F. (2005). Trap-nesting Ancistrocerus sikhimensis (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae) in Nepal: nest structure and associates (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae; Acarina: Saproglyphidae). FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST. vol. 88, pp. 135-140 ISSN: 0015-4040.


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