Sphaeropsocopsis (Italopsocopsis) utriusquemariaechristinae Aldini, 2023

The Latinized name of the new species, utriusquemariaechristinae, singular feminine genitive, means: of one and another Maria Cristina, of both Maria Cristinas. It is formed from the genitive singular utriusque of the Latin pronoun and adjective uterque, utraque, utrumque (= the one and the other, both) and from the feminine first name Maria Cristina (Latinized Maria Christina), also declined in the genitive singular. In recognition of our friendship, the new species is dedicated to the two colleagues who took part in the research: Dr. Maria Cristina Bertonazzi and Dr. Maria Cristina Reguzzi, PhD, both for decades esteemed colleagues in Entomology at the Faculty of Agriculture, Università Cattolica. In addition to planning the research in the Cremona institutions mentioned above, M.C. Bertonazzi carried out the entire five-year activity of placing, replacing and examining the traps in both towns, and during checks showed me specimens of the tiny psocid which immediately aroused my interest: she is responsible for the discovery. M.C. Reguzzi, participating in the logistic and scientific aspects of this as well as other previous research relating to insects harmful to cultural heritage, was the first, in the second half of the last decade, to give new impulse to a line of investigation previously started at the same Faculty by Prof. Elisabetta Chiappini, with the establishment of a research center (CPBC: Centro per la Protezione dei Beni Culturali) for the protection of cultural heritage items from biodeteriogenic agents; the center was active from 2005 to 2016.