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Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus is a fundamental work of systematic entomology by the Italian entomologist Camillo Róndani. It consist of seven volumes published in Paris, Parma, Firenze (Ex Tipographia A. Stocchii between 1856 and 1877. It is written in Latin.The subject is the Diptera of Italy. A ''prodromus'' is a preliminary publication intended as a basis for future work - Rondani's Expression is "un programma, o, per meglio dire, una proposta che vuol essere esaminata e discussa e quindi riformata, dietro le considerazioni dei dotti in tale materia", in English a programme, or, better to say, a proposal to be examined and discussed and therefore changed, after the considerations of scholars in such materia". Nineteen publications and twenty memoires, fragments and commentaries by Róndani complement the prodromo. These are not part of the work but integrate sections, add further information, modify, complement and illuminate the prodromo text. ==Volume 1== Volume I is an overview presented as a dichotomous key of classification of the thirty-two families and eighty-four ''stirpi'' (subfamilies) of European Diptera.It is titled ''Genera italica ordinis depterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata'' and also keys to genera very many of them new Carl Robert Osten-Sacken said of Volume 1〔 Osten-Sacken, C. R., 1903 Record of my life and work in entomology. Cambridge (Mass.)〕 quoting Hermann Loew〔 Loew, H. 1858, Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus ''Berlin Ent Zeit'' 1858:338-340〕 "The first volume of the " Prodromus" contains dichotomic tables of the families and genera of Italian Diptera, published in advance of the intended work upon them. The number of genera (according to Loew's statement, loc. cit., p. 338) is 587 ; among them a considerable number are new ones, the names of which are introduced without any other description but that contained in the data of the dichotomic tables, connected with the name of the typical, often as yet undescribed, species. Loew was right in calling this premature publication a failure calculated to impede, rather than to advance, the future progress of dipterology. Loew enumerates a large number of errors, misspelling of names and misprints". This, however, is the technical view and whilst it is true that the Prodromus causes some nomenclatural problems the review overlooks the fact (recognised by both Osten-Sacken and Loew) that the work is a prodromus, a regional fauna and an identification manual as well as a systematic treatise in a universal language (Latin).The problem of nomina nuda was resolved as the succeeding volumes were published and the errors, misspelling of names and misprints identified by Loew were largely corrected in later errata and the Prodromus as a whole is one of the most cited works on European Diptera.〔 Evenhuis, N.L., Litteratura • Taxonomica • Dipterorum (1758-1930). 2 vols. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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