Coleoptera of Europe - Latridiidae & Merophysiinae
Rücker, W.H.: Latridiidae & Merophysiinae.
Volume 1
ISBN 87-88757-71-4
Publication 2012
Approx. 500 pages incl. about 20 colour plates.
Identification keys.
1000 Line drawings.
Maps of distribution.
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. Macronesia, North Africa (Maghreb countries), Cyprus, Asia Minos, Lebanon, Israel, the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, as well as the Transcaucasien area (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaidzjan).
Europa
Each volume should be well illustrated, and where it is useful for the identification, all species can be shown in colour, either by colour photographs or by water colours. Sexual dimorphism may also be illustrated. All specimen, except the largest, will be shown enlarged. Male and female genitalia as well as other morphological details necessary for the identification, either as line drawings or as black and white photographs.
Stephostethus angusticollis
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 diagnosis features; a differential diagnosis may be provided when useful: Distribution in short summary from the total distribution, also outside the area treated. The distribution in Europe be present in 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, phenology, 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 import paper, a lectotype designation, discussion of synonymics, ect.
Merophysia oblonga
Each volume will bring short introductory chapters, treating the morphology, bionomics, distribution, systematics, ect. of the group dealt with, as well as provide 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: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae, Entiminae (Introduction and part 1), Galerucinae, Cryptocephalinae, Lamprosomatinae.
Aedeagus of Melanophthalma arabiensis
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