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Full Description
This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else on Earth.
Volume 2 contains 36 chapters, providing critical information and identification keys to the genera of the Australian beetle families included in suborders Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga and several groups of Polyphaga (Scirtoidea, Hydrophiloidea, Scarabaeoidea, Buprestoidea and Tenebrionidae). Each chapter is richly illustrated in black and white drawings and photographs. The book also includes colour habitus figures for about 1000 Australian beetle genera and subgenera belonging to the families treated in this volume.
This volume is a truly international collaborative effort, as the chapters have been written by 23 contributors from Australia, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland and USA.
Features
Provides detailed accounts and keys to genera of Australian beetle families included in suborders Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga and several groups of Polyphaga (Scirtoidea, Hydrophiloidea, Scarabaeoidea, Buprestoidea and Tenebrionidae).
Chapters are richly illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs and colour habitus figures for about 1000 genera and subgenera are also included.
Volume 1 received the 2014 Whitley Award Commendation for Taxonomic Zoology.
Contents
Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors to Volume 2
1. Archostemata Kolbe, 1908
2. Ommatidae Sharp and Muir, 1912
3. Cupedidae Laporte, 1836
4. Myxophaga Crowson, 1955
5. Sphaeriusidae Erichson, 1845
6. Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806
7. Gyrinidae Latreille, 1810
8. Haliplidae Aube, 1836
9. Noteridae Thomson, 1860
10. Hygrobiidae Régimbart, 1879
11. Dytiscidae Leach, 1815
12. Carabidae Latreille, 1802
13. Polyphaga Emery, 1886
14. Superfamily Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821
15. Scirtidae Fleming, 1821
16. Superfamily Hydrophiloidea Leach, 1815
17. Georissidae Castelnau, 1840
18. Hydrochidae Thomson, 1859
19. Spercheidae Erichson, 1837
20. Hydrophilidae Leach, 1815
21. Histeridae Gyllenhal, 1808
22. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802
23. Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802
24. Passalidae Leach, 1815
25. Trogidae Macleay, 1819
26. Lucanidae Latreille, 1804
27. Hybosoridae Erichson, 1847
28. Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802
29. Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae Leach, 1815
30. Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae Latreille, 1802
31. Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae Leach, 1819
32. Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae Macleay, 1919
33. Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae Macleay, 1919
34. Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae Leach, 1815
35. Buprestidae Leach, 1815
36. Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802
Colour Plates
Errata for Volume 1
Index of Generic and Family Group Names
