General part
Meaning and biodiversity of insects; nomenclature rules and taxonomic categories.
2. External anatomy (cuticle, segmentation and tagmosis, head, thorax, abdomen).
3. Internal anatomy and outline of physiology (muscles and locomotion; nervous system and coordination; endocrine system and hormones; circulatory system; tracheal system and gas exchange; digestive system, digestion and nutrition; excretory system; reproductive organs).
4. Sense organs (mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, chemoreceptors, photoreceptors) and behavioral aspects.
5. Reproduction (encounter between the sexes, courtship, sexual selection, mating, external genitalia, oviparity, ovoviviparity, viviparity).
6. Development and biological cycles (growth, biological cycle and its phases, moulting and its control, voltinism, diapause, migrations, polymorphism, age estimate, environment and development).
7. Diversity, main characteristics, ecological aspects of Proturi, Collemboli, Dipluri and of the main orders of Insetti s. str.
8. Mites (morphological, physiological and general ecological aspects).

Special part
Special part
Thysanoptera (general), Thripidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Drepanothrips reuteri; Frankliniella occidentalis.
Hemiptera (general), Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha (general). Cicadellidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Empoasca vitis; Jacobiasca lybica; Zygina rhamni; Scaphoideus titanus. Flatidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Metcalfa pruinosa.
Hemiptera, Homoptera Sternorrhyncha (general). Phylloxeridae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Viteus vitifoliae. Pseudococcidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Planococcus ficus; Planococcus citri; Pulvinaria vitis; Coccidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Parthenolecanium corni.
Coleoptera (general). Bostrychidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Sinoxylon spp .; Schistoceros spp. Cerambycidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Vesperus spp. Curculionidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Otiorrhynchus spp.
Diptera (general). Drosophilidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Drosophila suzukii. Cecidomyiidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and defense strategies of Janetiella oenophila.
Lepidoptera (general). Tortricidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Lobesia botrana; Argyrotaenia ljungiana.
Cochylidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Eupoecilia ambiguella.
Noctuidae (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Noctua spp. Zygaenidae: morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Theresimima ampellophaga.
Arachnida, Acari (general). Mites of Italian vineyards (general). Tetranichid mites (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Panonychus ulmi; Tetranychus urticae; Eotetranychus carpini. Eriofidi mites (general): morphology, biology, ecology and control strategies of Calepitrimerus vitis; Colomerus vitis.

Tremblay E., Entomologia applicata, vol. I. Liguori Editore (for the general part of the course)
Gullan P.J., Cranston P.S., Lineamenti di Entomologia. Zanichelli (for the general part of the course)
Pollini A., Manuale di Entomologia applicata. Liguori editore (for the general part of the course)
Lucchi A., Note di Entomologia Viticola. Pisa University Press, 223 pp (for the general and the special part of the course, devoted to insect and mites of the vineyard)