Cristina Castracani

University of Parma — Italy

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(44), Plant and animal studies(39), Insect and Pesticide Research(15), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(9), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(9)

Publications52 total

Marine Biodiversity in a Coastal Periphery Revealed by a Community-Based Monitoring Approach Integrating Citizen Science and Environmental DNA Metabarcoding
Environments·2025Open Access
Recycle and reuse: an ethological perspective for citizen science data on <i>Lucanus cervus</i> (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)
Journal of Insect Science·2025Open Access
The role of permanent grasslands on ant community structure: Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as ecological indicators in the agro-ecosystems of the Taro River Regional Park (Italy)
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Correction: Ant diversity along elevational gradients in the European Alps: insights for conservation under a changing climate
Journal of Insect Conservation·2024Open Access
First Record of the Exotic Ant Hypoponera ergatandria in Italy: Indoor Alate Swarms and Stinging Queens
Sociobiology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Ant diversity along elevational gradients in the European Alps: insights for conservation under a changing climate
Journal of Insect Conservation·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Fight and rescue or give up and flee? Behavioural responses of different ant species tending the mutualist walnut aphid <i>Panaphis juglandis</i> to native and exotic lady beetles – CORRIGENDUM
Bulletin of Entomological Research·2023Open Access
Fight and rescue or give up and flee? Behavioural responses of different ant species tending the mutualist walnut aphid <i>Panaphis juglandis</i> to native and exotic lady beetles
Bulletin of Entomological Research·2023· 5 cited
A multidimensional study on population size, deadwood relationship and allometric variation of <i>Lucanus cervus</i> through citizen science
Insect Conservation and Diversity·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Ants as mealybug detectors: a novel tool for monitoring <i>Planococcus ficus</i> infestation based on ant behaviour
Agricultural and Forest Entomology·2022· 7 cited
Different nest entrance architecture by Colobopsis and Temnothorax ants colonizing oak galls
Insectes Sociaux·2022· 9 cited
Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy
Insectes Sociaux·2022· 4 cited
The introduced oak <i>Quercus rubra</i> and acorn‐associated arthropods in Europe: An opportunity for both carpophagous insects and their ant predators
Ecological Entomology·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Do It by Yourself: Larval Locomotion in the Black Soldier Fly Hermetia illucens, with a Novel “Self-Harvesting” Method to Separate Prepupae
Insects·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Unlike rolling stones: not every <i>Myrmecina</i> species actively rolls away from danger (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
The European Zoological Journal·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Social Parasite Ants in the Alps: a New Site of the Vulnerable Myrmica myrmicoxena and New Uppermost Altitudinal Limit for M. microrubra
Sociobiology·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Searching for new predators of the invasive <i>Halyomorpha halys</i>: the role of the black garden ant <i>Lasius niger</i>
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata·2021· 16 citedOpen Access
Is mimicry a diversification-driver in ants? Biogeography, ecology, ethology, genetics and morphology define a second West-Palaearctic<i>Colobopsis</i>species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·2021· 53 citedOpen Access
First Report on the Acrobat Ant Crematogaster scutellaris Storing Live Aphids in Its Oak-Gall Nests
Insects·2021· 17 citedOpen Access
Public Engagement Provides First Insights on Po Plain Ant Communities and Reveals the Ubiquity of the Cryptic Species Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Insects·2020· 20 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Donató A. Grasso(49), Alessandra Mori(44), Fiorenza A. Spotti(23), Enrico Schifani(18), Daniele Giannetti(18), F. Le Moli(12), R. Visicchio(10), Robert R. Dunn(4), Andrea Lucky(4), Alberto Fanfani(4), Martina Ghizzoni(4), Mauro Gobbi(4), Luca Pedrotti(4), Heloise Gibb(3), Nathan J. Sanders(3), Alan N. Andersen(3), Elena Angulo(3), Xavier Arnán(3), Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro(3), Tom R. Bishop(3)