Scientific publications, articles, books

BREWER, M., FET, V., FET, E.V., REIN, J.O. & M.COLOMBO. 2005. The Balkan and Aegaean Euscorpius (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae): new data for mithocondrial DNA phylogeny. American Arachnology, 72: 14.
(http://www.americanarachnology.org/MeetingAbstracts/AAS_2005_abstracts.html)
CALA-RIQUELME, F. & M. COLOMBO. 2008. Ecology of populations of Microtityus (Scorpiones, Buthidae) present in the Sierra De Canastas, Eastern Cuba. Poster at the Convencion Tropico 2008, 16-20 June 2008, Cuba.
COLOMBO, M. 2003. Alla scoperta del combattente dei boschi: il cervo volante. Reptilia, 1: 80-81.
COLOMBO, M. 2004. Lycosa tarentula e Hogna radiata in Sardegna nord-occidentale: descrizione, biologia, allevamento. Reptilia, 1: 50-58.
COLOMBO, M. 2006. New data on distribution and ecology of seven species of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius 36: 1-40.
(http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/p2006_36.pdf)
COLOMBO, M. 2009. On two syntopic species of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in and nearby San Marco fortress (Veneto, Italy): a preliminary investigation. Euscorpius, 87: 1-14.
(http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/p2009_87.pdf)
COLOMBO, M. & D. BRANGI. 2009. Un cavalluccio di…corallo. Il Subacqueo, 437: 133. [Hippocampus guttulatus]

COLOMBO, M. & D. BRANGI. 2010. A cavallo tra il rosso e il rosa. Sub, 294: 36-37. [Hippocampus guttulatus]
COLOMBO, M. & G. COLOMBO. 2008. Una spada nel cuore. Pesca in Mare, 24 (2): 32-33. [Xiphias gladius]
COLOMBO, M. & B. MANUNZA. 2009. First record of Cyrtarachne ixoides (Simon, 1870) (Araneae: Araneidae) from Sardinia. Revista Ibérica de Aracnologìa, 17: 67-70.
COLOMBO, M., MANUNZA, B. & S. COLOMO. 2008. La fauna della Sardegna volume 15: invertebrati terrestri. Archivio Fotografico Sardo editore, Nuoro, 237 pp.

COLOMBO, M., MANUNZA, B. & S. COLOMO. 2008. La fauna della Sardegna volume 16: invertebrati marini. Archivio Fotografico Sardo editore, Nuoro, 237 pp.

MANUNZA, B. & M. COLOMBO. 2009. In attesa di sbucare. La Rivista della Natura, 11 (3): 67-71. (http://www.edinat.it/pdf/ragno.pdf) [Cteniza sauvagesi]
COLOMBO, M. & B. MANUNZA. 2011. Uno strano tipo. La Rivista della Natura, 13 (2): 15. [Cyrtarachne ixoides]
COLOMBO, M. 2011. Il diavolo mediterraneo. Sub, 307: 72-74. [Mobula mobular]

COLOMBO, M. 2011. On Fabre's traces: an important contributor to the knowledge of Buthus occitanus (Amoreux, 1789). Euscorpius, 117: 1-10. (http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/p2011_117.pdf)

Conferences and presentations

  • Conference "Scorpions, from fossils to roommates" 14.IX.2010, Gruppo Naturalista Bustese' centre, Via B.Bellotti 15 - Busto Arsizio (VA)

  • Photographic projection "Natura di Sardegna", 01.X.2010, Flora Alpina Bergamasca group, Scaletta Darwin 1, Bergamo

Exhibitions and others

  • Natura in Valcuvia – Valcuvia's nature, associazione “Amici dell'Alpe San Michele”, San Michele (VA)
  • Sviluppo di Oryctes nasicornis, dall'uovo all'adulto - Oryctes nasicornis development, from egg to adulthood, Musee Entomologique du Tourette-Levens (Francia) (poster)
  • Le orchidee del Parco di Porto Conte e della Sardegna - Porto Conte Regional Park and Sardinian wild orchids, Bruno Manunza and Marco Colombo exhibition, 7.VIII.2009-30.IX.2009, Casa Gioiosa- Tramariglio (SS)
  • Calendario 2010 del Parco di Porto Conte (orchidee) – 2010 Calendar of Porto Conte Regional Park (wild orchids), photographs by Bruno Manunza and Marco Colombo.
  • Sennoricas, orchidee di Sardegna - Sennoricas, Sardinian wild orchids, Bruno Manunza and Marco Colombo exhibition, 12.III.2010-31.III.2010, C.E.A.S. Lago Baratz (SS) - Galleria Mastros de Lughe (SS) - Libreria Messaggerie Sarde (SS)


  • Gli ineffabili,alla scoperta di rettili e anfibi italiani - The ineffables, discovering Italian reptiles and amphibians, Marco Colombo and Matteo Di Nicola exhibition, 9.X.2011, Sala Consiliare, Comune di Lonate Ceppino (VA)

Photo Contests


Photonaturae contest 2009, highlight

In the green (Hepatica nobilis)

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”, wrote Marcel Proust. Moving in a woodland, underwater or on a sea-cliff to take photographs of living organisms that live there implies leaving human's point of view and assuming subjects' ones, wearing their eyes, following their sight, in a “cognitive metamorphosis” bringing to great benefits to senses. This is the way I met this Hepatica, in the green.

Asferico International Nature Photography Competition 2010, category winner (Other animals)

Running colours (Calosoma sycophanta)

Iridescence and speed: a small jewel is quickly running among calcareous roughness. Colours' flow, moulded by the incidence of light on the beetle, stands out on a nearly black-and-white background, but only imagination could return the sound of frenetic tarsi on the ground. Iridescence and speed, impalpable union in the microcosm. 

 

GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010, highlight

Scorpion and flames (Euscorpius concinnus)

Orange and white lichens on a stone. A quick movement, and a running black scorpion (Euscorpius concinnus) becomes a dark shape crossing a wall of flames, a symbolic fire, recalling the real ones that, unfortunately, devour and mangle Mediterranean woodlands every summer. Fire is a natural part of many terrestrial ecosystems, but human-induced burnings widely increased during recent years. This specimen remained unharmed from “light flames”, but what about biodiversity loss during real fires?

Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011, category winner (Animal Portraits)

Sinuousness (Natrix natrix)

A female grass snake is waiting motionless nearby a small river. Water falls among pebbles and stones, polishing them in a liquid embrace. Reddish knobby roots protrude from the riverbank. Snakes are beautiful subjects for photographers, although sometimes they are quite tricky to meet; the grass snake can be observed along streams, rivers and lakes in Italy and other European countries, and it is characterized by a beautiful ornamentation; it mainly feeds upon amphibians (e.g. toads) but also fishes and small mammals. This wonderful specimen was at home among those rocks on the little water stream, and I decided to use a tripod in order to have a shot of the still snake with the moving water in this nook of the valley, which inspired me due to the presence of smooth pebbles and twisted roots belonging to an hygrophilous tree above.