World Catalogue and Bibliography of the Jewel Beetles, a (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea) Vol. 5

The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan Obenberger s six fascicle (1926 1937) contribution to the Horn & Schenkling Coleopterorum Catalogus. Published in five volumes (more than 3200 pages in total), this catalogue presents a full taxonomic history for all taxa, including fossils, along with distribution and type repository data. The catalogue follows the...
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The first complete world catalogue of the jewel beetles, the eighth largest beetle family Buprestidae and its small North American sister-group Schizopodidae, since Jan Obenberger s six fascicle (1926 1937) contribution to the Horn & Schenkling Coleopterorum Catalogus. Published in five volumes (more than 3200 pages in total), this catalogue presents a full taxonomic history for all taxa, including fossils, along with distribution and type repository data. The catalogue follows the evolving modern classification which, for Buprestidae, employs 6 subfamilies, 47 tribes, 39 non-nominate subtribes, 516 genera and more than 14,700 valid species. In addition, the first large bibliography on the subject concludes the catalogue with more than 8000 citations. This final volume contains the appendices, including listings of missing or invalid taxa, indices to significant past jewel beetle catalogues or checklists, a table listing each genus and the breakdown of the respective species-group taxa (species, subspecies, synonyms and invalid names), the Bibliography, the three Indices (family, genus and species-group names), a list of errors from the first four volumes, a list of taxa or taxonomic acts published after Volume 1 appeared and an Epilogue."