Lepisma

Di Spigno, whose previous books of poetry include Nei margini della storia (Joker, 2000) and I fasti del grigio (Lepisma, 2005), has a doctorate from the Universita orientale of Naples and has written a book on Giacomo Leopardi (Le "Memorie della mia vita" di Giacomo Leopardi-Analisi psicologica cognitivo-comportamentale, L'Orientale Editrice, 2007).

Among these were 41 Coleoptera (including 4 Mycotrupes (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae), 3 Tenebrionids, 1 Cerambycid, 4 Phyllophaga (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) larvae and 1 Anomala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) larva) 1 Cetoniid larva, 6 Lepisma saccharina (L.) (Thysanura: Lepismatidae), and 3 burrowing roaches.

His thesis concerned "The Effects of Carbon Dioxide Anesthesia as Related to the Age of the Adult House Fly (Musca domestica L.)." His dissertation was entitled "The Internal Anatomy of the Silverfish Ctenolepisma campbelli Barnhart and Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus (Thysanura: Lepismatidae)."

The new word describes thysanoures, insects of the order Thysanura, some of which, like Atelura formicaria, live in anthills and steal the food collected by the ants, while others, like the silver-fish (lepisma domestica, lepisme in French) use books for corporal rather than spiritual food.