Notodontidae of the Indonesian Archipelago (Lepidoptera)

Volume 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-35424-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 1707 g

This book is the first comprehensive work on oriental Notodontidae (Lepidoptera) outside mainland Asia. In addition to the Indonesian territory, the investigated area includes Borneo Island, the Malayan Peninsula, entire New Guinea with adjacent islands and the Solomon Islands. All species are illustrated in both sexes with a total number of 1272 specimens on 51 colour plates. Genitalia photos of both sexes as well as detailed distribution maps are provided for each species.

The book deals in the first volume with 298 species and contains descriptions of 99 new notodontid taxa. A second volume will treat with the remaining 160 species and include also a comprehensive biogeographic analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schintlmeister, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbellose (Invertebrata) Insekten (Entomologie)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

Summary

Acknowledgements

The Family Notodontidae

Methodological Notes

Material and Its Collectors

Glossary

Abbreviations

Systematic Account

Check-list

Dudusinae

Scranciinae

Ceirinae

Cerurinae

Dicranurinae

Genitalia Figures

Color Plates

Synopsis of Taxonomic Changes

References

Index of Scientific Names

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Schintlmeister, Ph.D. (1957), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, led many expeditions to study moths in most Asian countries, including about 10 expeditions to entire Indonesia. He is the author of several major publications on the moths of Vietnam (1997), the Notodontidae of China (Schintlmeister & Fang, 2001), the moths of Thailand (2007), the Palaearctic Notodontidae (Brill, 2008), a World catalogue of Insects, vol. 11 (Brill, 2013) and a monograph on the genus Lymantria (2004).