Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy Author Della Rocca, Francesca Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy fdellarocca@gmail.com Author Stefanelli, Silvia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6206-6070 Via Ugo Foscolo 14, 24127, Bergamo, Italy Author Cardarelli, Elisa Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy Author Bogliani, Giuseppe Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy Author Bracco, Francesco Botanical Garden, University of Pavia, Via S. Epifanio 14, Pavia, Italy & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, Italy text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-01-25 9 57889 57889 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e57889 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e57889 1314-2828-9-e57889 F82885F715A9515B9DFC70A66F26DFF7 Vanessa cardui Linnaeus, 1758 Ecological interactions Conservation status Least Concern for Italian ( Balletto et al. 2015 ), Mediterranean ( Numa et al. 2016 ) and European assessments ( Van Swaay et al. 2010 ). Distribution It is distributed in Europe and North Africa ( Sterry and Mackay 2005 ). It can be found in mainland Italy, Sardinia and Sicily ( Villa et al. 2009 ). Notes Migratory species widely distributed in many different environments, from the plains to 2500 m a.s.l. Migratory individuals arriving in Italy have two generations in June-July and September-October ( Paolucci 2013 , Villa et al. 2009 ).