Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus
is a fundamental work of systematic entomology by the Italian entomologist Camillo Rondani. It consists of seven volumes published in Paris, Parma, Firenze (Ex Tipographia A. Stocchii between 1856 and 1877. It is written in Latin. The subject is the Diptera of Italy. A ''prodromus'' is a preliminary publication intended as a basis for future work – Rondani's expression is "", in English a programme, or, better to say, a proposal to be examined and discussed and therefore changed, after the considerations of scholars in such materia. Nineteen publications and twenty memoires, fragments and commentaries by Rondani complement the prodromo. These are not part of the work but integrate sections, add further information, modify, complement and illuminate the prodromo text. Volume 1 Volume I is an overview presented as a dichotomous key of classification of the thirty-two families and eighty-four ''stirpi'' (subfamilies) of European Diptera. It is titled ''Genera italica ordinis d ...
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