8th International Seminar on Apterygota

Abstract

With over 70 participants from 27 countries of Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Oceania, the 8th International Seminar on Apterygota – held in Siena on September 2010 and to the proceedings of which this special volume is dedicated – was the most successful and most attended meeting ever held of world apterygotologists. As the name suggests, this conference was the eighth of a series of meetings initiated 32 years before in Siena, Italy, under the enthusiastic organisation of Prof. Romano Dallai and his research team at the Department of Evolutionary Biology of the University of Siena.