Full Professor of General and Applied Entomology at the University of Catania since 2002. Associated Professor at the University of Catania, 1993. Assistant professor at the University of Reggio Calabria, 1986.
Main Scientific interests:
Biological and integrated control of stored food pests
Faunistic and taxonomy of scale insects

Amante M., Schöller M., Hardy I.C. W., Russo A. (2017) Reproductive biology of Holepyris sylvanidis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Biol Control 106: 1 -8.

Amante M., Russo A., Schöller M., Steidle J.L.M. (2017) Olfactory host location in the rusty grain beetle parasitoid Cephalonomia waterstoni (Gahan) (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). J Stored Prod Res, 71: 1-4.

Franco J.C., Russo A., Marotta S. (2011) An annotated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Portugal, including Madeira and Azores Archipelagos. Zootaxa, 3004: 1-32.

Cavalieri V., Mazzeo G., Tropea Garzia G., Buonocore E., Russo A. (2008) Identification of Planococcus ficus and Planococcus citri (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) by PCR-RFLP of COI gene. Zootaxa, 1816: 65-68.

Russo A., Cocuzza G.E., Vasta M.C. (2004) Life tables of Xylocoris flavipes (Hemiptera Anthocoridae) feeding on Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae). J Stored Prod Res, 40: 103-112.