Attività didattica e impegni editoriali:
Già professore ordinario di Entomologia generale e applicata, in pensione dal 2018. È membro dell’Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, dell’Accademia dei Georgofili, componente dell’Editorial Board di Biogeographia, Biodiversity Data Journal ed European Journal of Zoology
Attività scientifica:
Ricerche entomologiche:
Tassonomia ed ecologia di Ortotteri in Europa e in Africa, bioacustica
Interrelazioni tra fillominatori e parassitoidi
Insetti galligeni (Cynipidae e Cecidomyiidae)
Ricerche ornitologiche:
Artropodi come riserva trofica di Uccelli insettivori
Uccelli pelagici
Ha pubblicato circa 400 articoli scientifici ed alcuni libri divulgativi.

Massa B., 2008. In difesa della biodiversità. Perdisa ed., Ozzano Emilia, 347 pp.

Massa B. & Fontana P., 2011. Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837: 1-47.

Massa B., Cusimano C.A., Margagliotta B. & Galici R., 2011. Reproductive characteristics and differential response to seasonal temperatures of Blue and Great Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus & Parus major) in three neighbouring mediterranean habitats. Rev. Écol. (Terre Vie), 66: 157-172.

Massa B., 2013. Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of the species. Zootaxa, 3700 (3): 435-475.

Hemp C. & Massa B., 2017. Review of the African genera Arantia Stål and Goetia Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Zootaxa, 4362 (4): 451-498.

Didactic and editorial activities:
Full professor of General and Applied Entomology, retired since 2018. He is member of Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, Accademia dei Georgofili, associate editor of Biogeographia, Biodiversity Data Journal and European Journal of Zoology
Scientific activities:
Entomological researches:
Taxonomy and ecology of Orthoptera in Europe and Africa, bioacoustics
Interrelations between leaf-miners and parasitoids
Gall inducer insects (Cynipidae and Cecidomyiidae)
Ornithological researches:
Arthropods as trophic reserve for insectivorous birds
Pelagic Birds
He published ca. 400 scientific papers and some popular books

Massa B., 2008. In difesa della biodiversità. Perdisa ed., Ozzano Emilia, 347 pp.

Massa B. & Fontana P., 2011. Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837: 1-47.

Massa B., Cusimano C.A., Margagliotta B. & Galici R., 2011. Reproductive characteristics and differential response to seasonal temperatures of Blue and Great Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus & Parus major) in three neighbouring mediterranean habitats. Rev. Écol. (Terre Vie), 66: 157-172.

Massa B., 2013. Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of the species. Zootaxa, 3700 (3): 435-475.

Hemp C. & Massa B., 2017. Review of the African genera Arantia Stål and Goetia Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Zootaxa, 4362 (4): 451-498.