** Larsen, T. B.: Butterflies of West Africa,
vol. 1-2. 2005. 28 x21 cm. 900 pages incl. 130
colour plates depicting approx. 3800 specimens. Hardback. Customers in North America
should order this series from ISBS.
ISBN 87-88757-43-9.... EUR
198.00 /
US$ 276.00 / DKK 1380.00. This book attempts to summarize all
that is known about the nearly 1,500 butterfly species known from West
Africa, the fifteen countries that stretch from Senegal and Mauritania
on the Atlantic to Nigeria and Niger in the east, touching also on the
extreme western parts of Cameroun (Mauritania, The Gambia, Senegal,
Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Côte
d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Bénin, Nigeria, and Niger). It is the result of
more than ten years of intensive personal research.
The fauna of West Africa accounts for well over a third of all
butterflies in the Afrotropical biogeographical region, and about one
in twelve of all butterflies known worldwide. Just 25 years ago the
area covered was believed to have just about 1,000 species.
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