Archostemata-myxophaga-adephaga. Volume 1 / edited by I. Lobl, D. Lobl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Löbl, Ivan.

Löbl, D. (Daniel)

Series:

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera 1.

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beetles--Eurasia.

Beetles.

Beetles--Africa, North.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,477 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Revised and updated ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill.

Summary:

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:

Front Matter

Cover Illustration / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Copyright Page / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Preface / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Taxonomic Information / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Distributional Information / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Bibliographical Information / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Acknowledgements / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Editors and Authors / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Errata / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

New Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Acts, and Comments / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Catalogue / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Back Matter

References / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Index to Family-group Names / I. Löbl and D. Löbl

Index to Genus-group Names / I. Löbl and D. Löbl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004330290

9004330291

OCLC:

1006286464

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004330290 DOI