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New in new dust jacket. 554 p. Pensoft Series Faunistica., No. 80. Audience: College/higher education. The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan Obenberger s six fascicle (1926 1937) contribution to the Horn & Schenkling Coleopterorum Catalogus. Published in five volumes (more than 3200 pages in total), this catalogue presents a full taxonomic history for all taxa, including fossils, along with distribution and type repository data. The catalogue follows the evolving modern classification which, for Buprestidae, employs 6 subfamilies, 47 tribes, 39 non-nominate subtribes, 516 genera and more than 14, 700 valid species. In addition, the first large bibliography on the subject concludes the catalogue with more than 8000 citations. This final volume contains the appendices, including listings of missing or invalid taxa, indices to significant past jewel beetle catalogues or checklists, a table listing each genus and the breakdown of the respective species-group taxa (species, subspecies, synonyms and invalid names), the Bibliography, the three Indices (family, genus and species-group names), a list of errors from the first four volumes, a list of taxa or taxonomic acts published after Volume 1 appeared and an Epilogue.
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New in new dust jacket. 625 p. Pensoft Series Faunistica., 76. Audience: College/higher education. The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan Obenberger's six fascicle (1926-1937) contribution to the Horn & Schenkling Coleopterorum Catalogus. Published in five volumes (3125 pages in total), this catalogue presents a full taxonomic history for all taxa, including fossils, along with distribution and type repository data. The catalogue follows the evolving modern classification which, for Buprestidae, employs 6 subfamilies, 47 tribes, 39 non-nominate subtribes, 513 genera and more than 14700 valid species. In addition, the first large bibliography on the subject concludes the catalogue with more than 8000 citations. In the present volume 1, a 20 page Introduction provides definition, structure and acknowledgment. The catalogue begins with a listing of fossil jewel beetles before commencing with the extant taxa. The small Schizopodidae come before the Buprestidae, which includes the subfamilies Julodinae, Polycestinae (including the first of the six large genera: Acmaeodera), Galbellinae and the first part of Chrysochroinae.
Add this copy of A World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles to cart. $136.02, new condition, Sold by Pensoft Publishers, ships from Sofia, BG, BULGARIA, published 2008 by Pensoft Publishers.
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New. No dust jacket. 676 pp. The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan Obenberger s six fascicle (1926 1937) contribution to the Horn & Schenkling Coleopterorum Catalogus. Published in five volumes (more than 3200 pages in total), this catalogue presents a full taxonomic history for all taxa, including fossils, along with distribution and type repository data. The catalogue follows the evolving modern classification which, for Buprestidae, employs 6 subfamilies, 47 tribes, 39 non-nominate subtribes, 516 genera and more than 14, 700 valid species. In addition, the first large bibliography on the subject concludes the catalogue with more than 8000 citations. The present volume 3 includes the conclusion of Buprestinae (including the large genera Anthaxia and Chrysobothris) and the majority of the non-Agrilus Agrilinae.
