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Volume 5 of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera focuses on one of the megadiverse groups of the animal kingdom, the beetle superfamily Tenebrionoidea reported from the Palaearctic biogeographic region. For the genus and species-groups taxa all available names are given and all data relevant to nomenclature are cross-checked and the distribution of species and subspecies is given per country or smaller region. A group of 25 experts have worked to collect data based on a critical review of published sources including a significant amount of new information. This volume also provides a fix to the nomenclature, which warrants unambiguous communication.
Contributors are: Kiyoshi Ando, Maxwell V. L. Barclay, A. Marco A. Bologna, Patrice Bouchard, Yves Bousquet, Ivan A. Chigray, Alain Drumont, V. Leonid Egorov, Jan Horák, Dariusz Iwan, Marcin J. Kaminski, Roman Królik, Daniel Kubisz, Ivan Löbl, Otto Merkl, V. Maxim Nabozhenko, Gianluca Nardi, Nikolay B. Nikitsky, Vladimír Novák, Darren A. Pollock, Wolfgang Schawaller, Rudolf Schuh, Fabien Soldati, Dmitry Telnov, and Daniel K. Young.
List of contents
Preface
Taxonomic Information
Distributional Information
Bibliographical Information
Acknowledgements
Editors and Authors
New Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Acts, and Comments
New distributional data and comments
Catalogue
Tenebrionoidea
Mycetophagidae
Archeocrypticidae
Pterogeniidae
Ciidae
Tetratomidae
Melandryidae
Ripiphoridae
Zopheridae
Mordellidae
Tenebrionidae
Prostomidae
Synchroidae
Oedemeridae
Stenotrachelidae
Meloidae
Mycteridae
Boridae
Trictenotomidae
Pythidae
Pyrochroidae
Salpingidae
Anthicidae
Aderidae
Scraptiidae
References
Index to family-group names
Index to genus-group names
About the author
Dariusz Iwan, Dr. (1993), Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, is Professor of entomology and Head of the Zoological Museum. He has published monographs and over 150 entomological papers.
Ivan Löbl, Dr. (1968), Curator emeritus, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland. He has published monographs and over 350 entomological papers and was co-editor of the previous volumes of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleptera.
