From "mosca!" [silence!] ?; Scapoli (prov. Isernia); According to Gioielli, who assumes that it was once active, its name means "small mosquito", which is a term borrowed by the Zampognari of Molise from the vocabulary of their colleagues in Latium (➺ Moschetto); NB: ➺ Muschittu (sounding drone, Abruzzo).