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Edited by Hermes E. Escalona and Adam Slipinski
Hardback
April 2025
9781486314539
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CSIRO Publishing - ISBN 9781486314539
- Language English
- Pages 720 pp.
- Size 8" x 10"
- Images 355 b&w illus, 125 color plates
$188.00
The Australian Beetles series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique evolutionary lineages found nowhere else on Earth.
Volume 3 (Polyphaga, Part 2) contains 12 chapters, providing critical information and identification keys to the genera of the Australian beetle families included in superfamily Curculionoidea (Nemonychidae, Anthribidae, Belidae, Attelabidae, Caridae, Brentidae and Curculionidae) and one subfamily of Cerambycidae (Lamiinae).
Each chapter is richly illustrated with black and white photographs, high-resolution images and drawings. The book also includes color habitus figures for about 900 Australian beetle genera belonging to the families treated in this volume. The chapters have been written by 11 contributors from Australia, Poland, and the USA.
Features:
- Provides detailed accounts and keys to genera of Australian beetle families included in superfamily Curculionoidea (Nemonychidae, Anthribidae, Belidae, Attelabidae, Caridae, Brentidae and Curculionidae) and one subfamily of Cerambycidae (Lamiinae).
- Richly illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs.
- Includes color habitus figures for about 900 beetle genera.
- Originally planned as a three-volume series, the Australian Beetles series has now been expanded to include a generic level treatment of weevils, with five families included in Volume 3.
Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors to Volume 3
37. Superfamily Curculionoidea Latreille
38. Nemonychidae Bedel
39. Anthribidae Billberg
40. Belidae Schoenherr
41. Attelabidae Billberg
42. Caridae Thompson
43. Brentidae Billberg
44. Curculionidae Latreille
45. Curculionidae: Platypodinae Schuckard
46. Curculionidae: Scolytinae Latreille
47. Cerambycidae Latreille
48. Cerambycidae: Lamiinae Latreille
Colour plates
Index of generic and family group names
Hermes E. Escalona
Hermes E. Escalona is the Zimmerman Fellow and curator at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO. He is interested in systematics, morphological and molecular evolution of beetles with a current focus on weevils (Curculionidae) and small beetle families. He is the author of more than 50 research publications and co-author of Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Volume 1 and Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Volume 2.
Adam Slipinski
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.
longhorns; weevils; Cerambycidae; Curculionidae; Australian beetles; invertebrate; Coleoptera