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Author:   Wilfried R. Arnscheid ,  Michael Weidlich
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   8
Weight:   1.022kg
ISBN:  

9789004339576

ISBN 10:   9004339574
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   20 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abstract Introduction General and historical aspects Collecting methods Genitalia preparation Genetic aspects Notes on the illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Systematics and classification 2. Morphology of Psychidae 3. Parthenogenesis 4. Checklist of European Psychidae 5. Identification Keys Key to subfamilies and tribes (based on male characteristics Key to the genera and subgenera (based on male characteristics 6. Systematic treatment of the genera and species of Psychidae in Europe Species incertae sedis Addenda 7. Distribution Catalogue Acronyms of the Countries 8. Colour plates 9. Male and female genitalia illustrations References Index to genus-group names Index to species-group names

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""This is a very important contribution to a neglected family of Microlepidoptera and deserves to be widely used. The quality of scholarship is excellent and the combination of species accounts and the many plates mean that it should be possible to identify species, whether by adult or case, even if some serious study will be needed. The quality of production and presentation is generally excellent and so it is appropriate to recommend this work very highly [...]"" Mark Young, Entomologist’s Gazette (2018) Vol. 69: 166-167. Click https://doi.org/10.31184/G00138894.693.1665

This is a very important contribution to a neglected family of Microlepidoptera and deserves to be widely used. The quality of scholarship is excellent and the combination of species accounts and the many plates mean that it should be possible to identify species, whether by adult or case, even if some serious study will be needed. The quality of production and presentation is generally excellent and so it is appropriate to recommend this work very highly [...] Mark Young, Entomologist's Gazette (2018) Vol. 69: 166-167. Click https://doi.org/10.31184/G00138894.693.1665

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Wilfried R. Arnscheid, born 1955 in Bochum, retired since 2014, previously served as an official for the city of Bochum (Germany), where he currently resides. He has published papers on systematics of Psychidae and Satyridae as well as faunistics of Italian Lepidoptera. Michael Weidlich, born 1955 in Berlin, lives in Ratzdorf near the river Oder in Brandenburg (Germany). Since the 1970s he has worked on the Macrolepidoptera of Germany, East Europe and the Balkans. He has published papers on Psychidae of the Palaearctic region, especially the Balkans and Central Asia.

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