Vesperidae & Cerambycidae of Europe I.
Author: Jenis Ivo
Type: Book
Printing: 2001
Language: English & Czech
Number pages: 333
Dimensions (in mm): 160 x 230
ISBN: 80-238-6757-1
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Content:
This volume, the first one of a series of books on insects, deals with the fauna of long-horned beetles of Central Europe, France, British Isles and Fennoscandia. In this book, there are more than 340 species (including subspecies) which are known from the region and adjoiring parts of physical-geographic units, with colour photographs of more than 750 specimens. The introductory chapters include a classification of the long-horned beetles within the superfamily Chrysomeloidea, with many illustrations. The book contains about 1000 colour photographs, and everything is arranged and presented in a manner suitable not only for experienced collectors and professionals but also for beginners. The book also includes brief characteristics of families and subfamilies of the long-horned beetles at large in the framework of the superfamily Chrysomeloidea, including their distribution and approximate numbers of known species. In this book you will find the latest knowledge of the bionomics and distribution of species including their bio-indication value. In this book you will find examples of sexual dimorphism, parthenogenesis, gynandromorphism and various survival strategies. We are preparing: Long-horned beetles of Southern Europe, Long-horned beetles of North Africa including the Canary Islands, Long-horned beetles of Turkey and the Middle East, Potato beetles of Central Europe, France, the British Isles and Fennoscandia, And more …