Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Volume 3
Subfamily Prioninae of the Australo-Pacific Region
Australian Longhorn Beetles Series By: Adam Slipinski, Roger de Keyzer, Mengjie Jin
Diagnoses and describes 50 genera and 166 species of the Australo-Pacific Prioninae.
Longhorn beetles — Cerambycidae — are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a cosmopolitan family that encompasses more than 33,000 species in 5,200 genera worldwide. Out of the 117 beetle families occurring in Australia, Cerambycidae is the sixth largest, comprising more than 1,400 species classified in 300 genera. + Full description
Virtually all Cerambycidae feed on living or dead plant tissue and play a significant role in all terrestrial environments. Larvae often utilise damaged or dead trees for their development, and through feeding on rotten wood, form an important element of the saproxylic fauna, speeding nutrient and energy circulation in these habitats. Longhorn beetles can cause serious damage by sometimes feeding on and eventually killing living forest or orchard trees. Many species are listed as quarantine pests because of their destructive role to the timber industry, such as the European house borer introduced into Western Australia.
This third volume in the series on Australian longhorn beetles extends to include the taxonomy of genera and species of the subfamily Prioninae of the Australo-Pacific Region. Seven tribes, 50 genera and 166 species are included. All genera and most species are diagnosed, described, illustrated and included in keys to their identification.
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Produced with the assistance of the Australian Biological Resources Study (external link).
Reviews
"A phenomenally superb professional body of work which will stand the test of time as the ‘go to’ reference work for the prionines of our region for a very long time to come. Highly commended and highly recommended."
Allen M. Sundholm, The Society for Insect Studies, December 2023
"This book is set out and illustrated so superbly that it almost makes me want to change the family of beetles that I study. It seems accessible to the casual enthusiast yet has every detail for the professional researcher. It will certainly be the authoritative source of information for many decades to come."
Martin Lagerwey, Victorian Entomologist, January 2024
Details
Hardback | December 2023 | $180.00ISBN: 9781486317301 | 532 pages | 297 x 210 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour illustrations, Colour photographs, Maps
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Features
- The final volume of a three-volume set with taxa representing the largest Australian beetles of taxonomic and commercial value (as agricultural pests and prized additions to amateur collections worldwide).
- Covers the taxonomy of genera and species of the Australo-Pacific Prioninae, with comments on natural history and morphology.
- Fifty Prioninae genera and 166 species are diagnosed and described, with identification keys and images provided to represent genera, species and actual type specimens.
- A full list of all Australian and Australo-Pacific species with synonymies and bibliographic citations is provided.
- Also available: Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Volumes 1 and 2
Contents
AbstractAcknowledgements
Material and methods
Collecting and rearing longhorn beetles
Subfamily Prioninae
Introduction
Biology and ecology
Diagnosis of subfamily Prioninae
Higher classification of Prioninae
Classification of Australo-Pacific Prioninae
Key to tribes of Prioninae in the Australo-Pacific Region
Review of Australo-Pacific Prioninae
Tribe Macrotomini Thomson
Tribe Osphryonini Jin et al.
Tribe Rhipidocerini Jin et al.
Tribe Sceleocanthini Lacordaire
Tribe Tereticini Lameere
Tribe Catypnini Lacordaire
Tribe Parandrini Blanchard
Prioninae figures
Appendix: Type and historic specimens from Australo-Pacific Region
Bibliography
Index of scientific names
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 is currently working as a senior principal research scientist and curator at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO. He is the author of over 200 research publications and multiple book chapters, and author of six books on the phylogeny and classification of various beetles, including volumes 1 and 2 of the Australian Longhorn Beetles series, volumes 1 and 2 of the Australian Beetles series, and Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region.
Roger de Keyzer is currently a research associate at the Australian Museum in Sydney, having previously worked there as a research assistant in entomology and malacology. He has a keen interest in macro photography, and the taxonomy and biology of the beetle families Cerambycidae and Lucanidae. He is the author of a number of research publications in entomology and malacology, and two books on Lucanidae, including A Guide to Stag Beetles of Australia.
Mengjie Jin obtained her PhD in Zoology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2020. Prior to that, she was a visiting student at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, from 2015 to 2020, working on phylogeny and taxonomy of Australian longhorn beetles (Prioninae and Cerambycinae).
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