** Patocka, J. & M. Turcani:
Lepidoptera Pupae. Central European Species. 2005. 863 pages in two
volumes incl. 271 plates with more than 8000 line drawings. Hardback.
Customers in North America
should order this
title
from ISBS.
ISBN 87-88757-47-1. Price EUR 138,00 / US$ 192.00 / DKK 960,00.
This outstanding work is a manual that enables one to identify pupae, or
empty pupal skins, of about two thirds (some 2,600 species) of the Central
European Lepidoptera. The text part of about 560 pages comprises a short
introduction, identification keys, and species-for species accounts including
succinct descriptions of pupal morphology as well as information about habitats,
life-style and food plants. The illustration part consists of 271 plates
including more than 8,000 line drawings of the treated pupae and/or structural
details pertinent for their identification.
Lepidoptera Pupae of Central Europe should be useful for anyone with a
primary interest in Central European Lepidoptera. It will also be indispensable
for population ecologists studying predators and parasites of Lepidoptera, for
soil biologists (since so many Lepidoptera pupate in/on the soil), and for
applied entomologists in need of identifying lepidopteran pests without rearing
the adults. All families are well covered except for the Nepticulidae and
Coleophoridae, for which much basic research on pupal stucture still remains to
be done (and whose immatures are usually identifiable from mine
architecture/case structure anyway) and a few of the smallest families.
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