Australian Beetles: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part)

by Adam Slipinski (Editor), John F. Lawrence (Editor)

Overview

The Australian Beetles three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else on Earth.

Volume 2 contains 36 chapters, providing critical information and identification keys to the genera of the Australian beetle families included in suborders Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga and several groups of Polyphaga (Scirtoidea, Hydrophiloidea, Scarabaeoidea, Buprestoidea and Tenebrionidae). Each chapter is richly illustrated in black and white drawings and photographs. The book also includes color habitus figures for about 1000 Australian beetle genera and subgenera belonging to the families treated in this volume.

This volume is a truly international collaborative effort, as the chapters have been written by 23 contributors from Australia, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland and USA.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780643097308
Publisher:	CSIRO Publishing
Publication date:	11/06/2019
Series:	Australian Beetles , #2
Pages:	816
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adam Slipinski is the Senior Principal Research Scientist and curator at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO. His research concentrates on the phylogeny and higher classification of beetles. He is the author of nearly 200 research publications, a co-editor of Volumes 1 and 2 in the Australian Beetles Series, and co-author of Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region and Volumes 1, 2 and 3 in the Australian Longhorn Beetles Series.

John F. Lawrence is one of the world’s preeminent coleopterists. He worked at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology before emigrating to Australia, where he served as a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection (CSIRO) until 1999. He has published more than 200 research articles and book chapters and was co-editor of a recent volume of Handbook of Zoology, in which he authored or co-authored more than 50 chapters. John is now retired but continues to conduct research on the phylogeny and classification of beetles.

Table of Contents

Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors to Volume 2
1. Archostemata
2. Ommatidae
3. Cupedidae
4. Myxophaga
5. Sphaeriusidae
6. Adephaga
7. Gyrinidae
8. Haliplidae
9. Noteridae
10. Hygrobiidae
11. Dytiscidae
12. Carabidae
13. Polyphaga
14. Superfamily Scirtoidea
15. Scirtidae
16. Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
17. Georissidae
18. Hydrochidae
19. Spercheidae
20. Hydrophilidae
21. Histeridae
22. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
23. Geotrupidae
24. Passalidae
25. Trogidae
26. Lucanidae
27. Hybosoridae
28. Scarabaeidae
29. Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae
30. Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae
31. Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae
32. Scarabaeidae: Ruteliinae
33. Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae
34. Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae
35. Buprestidae
36. Tenebrionidae
Errata for Volume 1
Colour plates
Index