Australian Beetles Volume 2

Reviews

"This volume is a monumental achievement, especially considering the vast Australian beetle fauna and all the challenges that brings with it."
John Marris, The Wētā (55), 22 February 2020

"An unprecedented feature of this book is the approximately 1,000 color habitus photographs of different genera. These images make many genera accessible and identifiable"
Andrew B. T. Smith, The Coleopterists Bulletin 74(4), 22 December 2020

"Volume 2, which has just appeared under editorship of Slipinski and Lawrence, takes the Australian Coleoptera a giant quantum leap further into understanding and accessibility by providing definitive accounts by 23 authorities from around the world of 36 families."
Geoff Monteith, Australian Entomologist 46(4), December 2019

"Most certainly it is a must for the library of novices and experts in the field, as much as it is absolutely necessary for any institute where researchers work with beetles."
George Hangay, General and Applied Entomology 47 2019

"The current volume of Australian Beetles provides a fascinating survey on the diversity of a number of generic lineages of Australian beetles, many of which are beautifully depicted in color plates presented at the end of the book."
George Poinar, Quarterly Review of Biology Vol 95, June 2020

Features

• Provides detailed accounts and keys to genera of Australian beetle families included in suborders Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga and several groups of Polyphaga (Scirtoidea, Hydrophiloidea, Scarabaeoidea, Buprestoidea and Tenebrionidae).
• Chapters are richly illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs.
• Colour habitus figures for about 1000 genera and subgenera are also included.

Contents

Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors to Volume 2

1. Archostemata Kolbe, 1908
2. Ommatidae Sharp and Muir, 1912
3. Cupedidae Laporte, 1836
4. Myxophaga Crowson, 1955
5. Sphaeriusidae Erichson, 1845
6. Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806
7. Gyrinidae Latreille, 1810
8. Haliplidae Aube, 1836
9. Noteridae Thomson, 1860
10. Hygrobiidae Régimbart, 1879
11. Dytiscidae Leach, 1815
12. Carabidae Latreille, 1802
13. Polyphaga Emery, 1886
14. Superfamily Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821
15. Scirtidae Fleming, 1821
16. Superfamily Hydrophiloidea Leach, 1815
17. Georissidae Castelnau, 1840
18. Hydrochidae Thomson, 1859
19. Spercheidae Erichson, 1837
20. Hydrophilidae Leach, 1815
21. Histeridae Gyllenhal, 1808
22. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802
23. Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802
24. Passalidae Leach, 1815
25. Trogidae Macleay, 1819
26. Lucanidae Latreille, 1804
27. Hybosoridae Erichson, 1847
28. Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802
29. Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae Leach, 1815
30. Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae Latreille, 1802
31. Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae Leach, 1819
32. Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae Macleay, 1919
33. Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae Macleay, 1919
34. Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae Leach, 1815
35. Buprestidae Leach, 1815
36. Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802

Colour Plates
Errata for Volume 1
Index of Generic and Family Group Names

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Authors

Adam Slipinski completed his PhD and DSc in Poland where he worked for 20 years at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; he also held a joint appointment as Professor of Biology at the University of Zielona Gora. He is currently working as a Senior Principal Research Scientist and curator at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO. He is the author of nearly 200 research publications, the editor of a two-volume book on the phylogeny and classification of beetles, and an author of books on Australian ladybird and longhorn beetles. Adam’s research concentrates on the phylogeny and higher classification of beetles.

John F. Lawrence is one of the world’s preeminent coleopterists; he worked at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology before emigrating to Australia, where he served as a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection (CSIRO) until 1999. He has published more than 200 research articles and book chapters and was co-editor of a recent volume of Handbook of Zoology, in which he authored or co-authored more than 50 chapters. John is now retired but continues to conduct research on the phylogeny and classification of beetles.

Contributors:
Martin Baehr, Alberto Ballerio, Hermes E. Escalona, Martin Fikácek, Nicole L. Gunter, W. Eugene Hall, Lars Hendrich, Paul M. Hutchinson, Mengjie Jin, Tomáš Lackner, Cate Lemann, Eric G. Matthews, Slawomir Mazur, Chris H. Moeseneder, Chris A.M. Reid, Owen D. Seeman, Chris H.S. Watts, Tom A. Weir, Kipling W. Will, Yu-Lingzi Zhou, Peter Zwick.