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Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 29.5

Coleoptera: Buprestoidea

Zoological Catalogue of Australia Series

Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 29.5  
CL Bellamy   California Department of Food and Agriculture, USA

4 Colour illustrations, Index
508 pages
Publishers: CSIRO PUBLISHING / Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)
2002


    Hardback - ISBN: 9780643069008 - AU $150.00
Description  | Features  | Contents  | Readership  | Related Titles

Description
The Buprestoidae, commonly known as Jewel Beetles, are the eighth largest family of beetles in the world. This Catalogue of the buprestids found in Australia documents four subfamilies, 24 tribes, 37 subtribes, 77 genera and 1205 species.

Full taxonomic information is provided, with the original literature as well as museum data on the original type specimens. For all species known to occur in the Australian fauna, broad distributions are indicated, and, where possible, a short summary of known ecological data is given. References are given to key works that can help identify the fauna at all taxonomic levels. A set of four colour plates illustrates a representative of each subtribe in this often colourful group.

Features

  • gives access to names, taxonomic and nomenclatural information, statistics, distributions of species and their ecology
  • contains four pages of high quality colour illustrations
  • provides information on type data and whereabouts of type species
  • references the literature for keys and identification tools.
  • compiled and reviewed by world experts

Contents
Covers the four buprestid sub-families:

  • Polycestinae
  • Chalcophorinae
  • Buprestinae
  • Agrilinae

Readership
Coleopterists, entomological taxonomists, agricultural entomologists, environmental consultants, beetle collectors.

Related Titles
A Field Guide to Insects in Australia    Australasian Nature Photography    Arachnids    Wildlife of Australia   A World Without Bees    Biology and Conservation of <i>Caladenia</i>  

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