Tiger Moths of the Former Soviet Union (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Arctiidae

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murzin, Vladimir, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tiger moths--Former Soviet republics.

Tiger moths.

Arctiidae--Former Soviet republics.

Arctiidae.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Pensoft Publishers 2003

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present book is a monographic treatment of tiger moths, the Arctiidae, of the former Soviet Union. In covering most of the Palaeartic fauna, this publication is unprecedented both in scope and scrupulousness. Numerous colour pictures and several drawings richly illustrate the more than 100 species and subspecies referred to in the book. Identification keys are mainly based on peripheral characters, although in several cases genitalic ones are used. Many full colour photographs show pinned specimens (mainly arranged in 24 plates) and also a variety of live moths and/or their characteristic habitats. Professor Vladimir Murzin (born in 1927), a nuclear physicist and Doctor of Physical Sciences, developed an interest in butterflies and moths during his childhood. Today, his collection of Lepidoptera is one of the largest privately owned in Russia. He is a member of the Russian Entomological Society, and is the author of several scientific and popular-science books concerning butterflies and moths and of more than 20 other publications covering ecology and entomology. He has made approximately 50 collecting trips to various parts of the former Soviet Union where he has discovered several new species and subspecies of butterflies and moths.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

1-281-29680-5

9786611296803

954-642-332-7

1-4356-3858-1

OCLC:

1024274794