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Australian Beetles Volume 3: Polyphaga
Author(s): Hermes Escalona (Editor), Adam Slipinski
- Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 April 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 720 pages
- ISBN-10: 1486314538
- ISBN-13: 9781486314539
Book Description
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 colour 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.
Editorial Reviews
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 (CSIRO Publishing, 2013, 2019), and co-author of
Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region (CSIRO Publishing, 2020) and Volumes 1, 2 and 3 in the Australian Longhorn Beetles Series (CSIRO Publishing, 2013, 2016, 2023).