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This new edition of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera gives a taxonomic overview of the most diverse group of all organisms living in the world-largest biogeographical area. The present volume is an updated edition of the first issue in 2003 but restricted to data published before the year 2000. It contains information about 33,914 taxa (together with synonyms), and increases the number of included species and other taxa by almost 5,000. In addition, thousands of species have their distributional data completed, and their ranks, systematic positions and nomenclature corrected. Almost two hundred new acts fix systematics and nomenclature, and numerous problems are discussed. Even such well known genera as Calosoma and Carabus, or tribes as Bembidiini and Panagaeini, are completely reorganized compared to the previously published catalogues. Thus, the work is a scaffold for biotic surveys, ecological studies, and nature conservation. It responds to the urgent need of an assessment of the still remaining forms of life, threatened by the on-going destruction of habitats. Taxonomy provides the basic building blocks of our understanding of the diversity of life. It stems from innate human curiosity: confronted with an unknown species we ask first "what is it"? Taxonomists recognize species and other systematic entities (taxa), define them and place them within the framework of known organisms, providing means for their subsequent identification.
Contributors are: Antonio Tomás Tomas Andújar, Carmelo Fernández Andújar, Michael Balkenohl, Igor Belousov, Yves Bousquet, Boleslav Březina, Achille Casale, Hans Fery, Jan Farkač, Pier Mauro Giachino, Henri Goulet, Martin Häckel, Jiří Hájek, Oldřich Hovorka, Fritz Hieke, Jan Hrdlička, Charles Huber, Bernd Jaeger, Ilya Kabak, Boris M. Kataev, Erich Kirschenhofer, Tomáš Kopecký, Ivan Löbl, Werner Marggi, Andrey Matalin, Wendy Moore, Peter Nagel, Paolo Neri, Sergio Pérez González, Alexandr Putchkov, James A. Robertson, Joachim Schmidt, José Serrano, Luca Toledano, Uldis Valainis, Bernhard J. van Vondel, David W. Wrase, Juan M. Pérez Zaballos, Alexandr S. Zamotajlov.
Contents
Preface
Taxonomic Information
Distributional Information
Bibliographical Information
Aknowledgements
Editors and Authors
Errata
New Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Acts, and Comments
Catalogue
Archostemata
Archostemata
Crowsoniellidae
Cupedidae
Micromalthidae
Jurodidae
Myxophaga
Torridincolidae
Hydroscaphidae
Sphaeriusidae
Adephaga
Gyrinidae
Trachypachidae
Rhysodidae
Carabidae
Nebrinae
Cicindinae
Carabinae
Cicindelinae
Loricerinae
Elaphrinae
Omophroninae
Scaritinae
Broscinae
Apotominae
Siagoninae
Melaeninae
Gehringiinae
Trechinae
Patrobinae
Psydrinae
Paussinae
Brachininae
Harpalinae
Haliplidae
Noteridae
Amphizoidae
Aspidytidae
Hygrobiidae
Dytiscidae
Agabinae
Colymbetinae
Copelatinae
Cybistrinae
Dytiscinae
Hydroporinae
Laccophilinae
References
Index to family-group names
Index to genus-group names
