P.L. Nimis, M. Conti & S. Martellos
ITALIC 8.0, the latest version of the Information System on Italian Lichens, is online since September 2024. The system makes available information and resources about the lichens known to occur in Italy, or potentially occurring there. It is maintained and updated by the Research Unit of Professor Pier Luigi Nimis, at the University of Trieste (NE Italy), Department of Life Sciences. Most of the data derive from the Checklist of the Lichens of Italy by Nimis (2016), but nomenclatural and distributional data are now being continuously updated online, and complete identification keys for some areas of the country, as well as for genera or groups of genera, are published online for testing.
A major new tool has been added to ITALIC 8.0, the “Keymaker”, which rapidly generates keys to subsets of species defined by distribution, traits and ecological requirements. Furthermore, the searchable image archive curated by P.L. Nimis and F. Schumm has a new layout. ITALIC 8.0 also contains revised descriptions for all genera and for c. 3.330 infrageneric taxa (several of which are not known from Italy but do occur in neighbouring countries, e.g. in the Alps and in the Mediterranean Region).