Effect of management strategies on rove and ground beetlesin a hilly area in Northern Italy

Abstract: Results of research on two important Coleoptera family, Staphylinidae (rove beetle)and Carabidae (ground beetle), in a park landscape near Brescia (Northern Italy, Lombardy) aregiven. This study investigated the impact of management strategies applied in woods andmeadows in this area on the two Coleoptera families. Noteworthy is the capture of the rove beetleAtheta pseudoelongatula Bernhauer, 1907, an alien species never detected in Italy before.