Coleoptera of Europe

COLEOPTERA OF EUROPA
Editor-in-chief Thomas Wagner
All volumes hardback
Customer in North America should order this series from ISBS.

Latridiidae and Merophysiinae.
by Wolfgang H. Rücker

Publication 2011. Approx. 500 pages incl. about 20 color plates. Identification keys, Line drawings.

ISBN 87-88757-71-4

The most important work on European Coleoptera in the 20th century was “Die Käfer Mitteleuropas" which appeared in 15 volumes plus further volumes on larvae, ecology and catalogue. Coleoptera of Europe will in the same way be the most important European work on Coleoptera in the new century. This new series is aimed at providing brief, concise identification guides, to all European Coleoptera, and is intended both for professional and amateur entomologists. Up till now consice publications are completely lacking for most groups of European Coleoptera. The most comprehensive work is up till now “Die Käfer Mitteleuropas”.

Each volume will treat a systematic unit comprising about 150-500 species. This will usually mean a family or subfamily, but it can also be a single large genus, or a group of smaller families. Small and systematically unrelated groups may also be collected in one volume. The volumes are published as manuscripts become available and not in a systematical order.

The geographical area covered will include Europe west of the former USSR, but including Estonia. Lithuania and Latvia. Authors may also include one or more of the adjacent parts of the western Palaearctic Region. i. e.: Macaronesia, North Africa (Maghreb countries), Cyprus, Asia Minos, Lebanon. Israel, the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, as well as the Transcaucasian area (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaidzian).

Each volume should be well illustrated, and where it is useful for the identification. all species can be shown in color, either by color photographs or by water colors. Sexual dimorphism and extensive polymorphism? may also be illustrated. All specimens, except the largest, will be shown enlarged. Male and female genitalia as well as other morphological details nessesary for the identification, either as line drawings or as black and white photographs.

Each species will be treated using the following format: Full name; Original reference to all available nominal names (valid name and synonyms); Differential diagnosis based on external features, including detail figures where necessary; Genitalia of male and female of all species illustrated with line drawings or black and white photographs; arrows may show diagnostic features; a differential diagnosis may be provided when useful: Distribution in short summary form of the total distribution, also outside the area treated. The distribution it Europe will be presented in a table indication the presence in each of the European national states and the major Mediterranean Islands Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and Crete; Bionomics in a short paragraph giving information on food, fenology, feeding pattern, larval description etc. where known. This chapter may be illustrated; Remarks where information does not fit into one of the other entries. This may include reference to an important paper, a lectotype designation, discussion of synonymy, etc.

Each volume will bring short introductory chapters, treating the morphology, bionomics. Distribution, systematics, etc. of the group dealt with, as well as provide a checklist to all treated taxe. A host plant/host substrate catalogue may also be added. Each volume should contain an extensive bibliography. The language of the series will be English. The intended frequency of publication is one volume per year. Further volumes on the following families and subfamilies are in preparation: Nitidulidoe, Kateretidae, Entiminae (Introduction and part 1), Galerucinae, Cryptocepholinae, Lamprosomatinae.