Carcasson's African butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical region
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Main Author: Carcasson, Robert Herbert 1918-1982 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: East Melbourne, Vic., Australia CSIRO Australia ©1995
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Item Description:"As used here, the Afrotropical Region ... include[s] all sub-Saharan Africa, the Malagasy subregion and southern Arabia. In terms of political rather than biogeographical entities, we would include Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Ethiopia, but not Morocco, Algeria, Libya or Egypt"--Page 49
Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-748) and index
COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; BIOLOGY; GAZETIEER AND LIST OF REGIONAL WORKS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; THE CATALOGUE; ADDENDUM; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
The result of more than 20 years of research and collaboration by international butterfly experts, this book is the first comprehensive catalogue to the butterfly fauna of any major tropical region and, as such, provides a basic research tool for any worker with an interest in African butterflies. Covering 3593 recognised species in 300 genera, it deals with about 20% of the world butterfly fauna. Included are entries for all genus-group, species-group and infra-subspecific names applicable to the Afrotropical butterflies, a total of about 14 000 names. This work has a more wide-ranging appea
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 803 pages)
ISBN:0643055614
0643100784
9780643055612
9780643100787

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