1st Edition

American Beetles, Volume II Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea

    880 Pages 16 Color & 733 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    880 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Experts offer the most sweeping reference available on the subject of North American beetles. Their rigorous standards for the presentation of data create a concise, useful format that is consistent throughout the book. This is the resource of choice for quick, accurate, and easily accessible information.

    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Contributors to Volume 2
    LUCANIDAE
    DIPHYLLOSTOMATIDAE
    PASSALIDAE
    GLARESIDAE
    TROGIDAE
    PLEOCOMIDAE
    GEOTRUPIDAE
    OCHODAEIDAE.
    HYBOSORIDAE
    CERATOCANTHIDAE.
    GLAPHYRIDAE
    SCARABAEIDAE
    EUCINETIDAE
    CLAMBIDAE
    SCIRTIDAE
    DASCILLIDAE
    RHIPICERIDAE
    SCHIZOPODIDAE
    BUPRESTIDAE.
    BYRRHIDAE
    ELMIDAE
    DRYOPIDAE.
    LUTROCHIDAE.
    LIMNICHIDAE
    HETEROCERIDAE
    PSEPHENIDAE
    PTILODACTYLIDAE
    CHELONARIIDAE
    EULICHADIDAE
    CALLIRHIPIDAE.
    ARTEMATOPODIDAE
    BRACHYPSECTRIDAE
    CEROPHYTIDAE
    EUCNEMIDAE
    THROSCIDAE
    ELATERIDAE
    LYCIDAE
    TELEGEUSIDAE
    PHENGODIDAE
    LAMPYRIDAE
    OMETHIDAE
    CANTHARIDAE
    JACOBSONIIDAE
    DERODONTIDAE
    NOSODENDRIDAE
    DERMESTIDAE.
    BOSTRICHIDAE
    ANOBIIDAE
    LYMEXYLIDAE
    TROGOSSITIDAE
    CLERIDAE
    MELYRIDAE.
    SPHINDIDAE
    BRACHYPTERIDAE
    NITIDULIDAE
    SMICRIPIDAE
    MONOTOMIDAE
    SILVANIDAE
    PASSANDRIDAE
    CUCUJIDAE
    LAEMOPHLOEIDAE
    PHALACRIDAE
    CRYPTOPHAGIDAE
    LANGURIIDAE
    EROTYLIDAE
    BYTURIDAE
    BIPHYLLIDAE
    BOTHRIDERIDAE
    CERYLONIDAE.
    ENDOMYCHIDAE
    COCCINELLIDAE
    CORYLOPHIDAE
    LATRIDIIDAE
    MYCETOPHAGIDAE.
    ARCHEOCRYPTICIDAE
    CIIDAE
    TETRATOMIDAE.
    MELANDRYIDAE
    MORDELLIDAE
    RIPIPHORIDAE
    COLYDIIDAE
    MONOMMATIDAE
    ZOPHERIDAE
    TENEBRIONIDAE
    PROSTOMIDAE
    SYNCHROIDAE
    OEDEMERIDAE
    STENOTRACHELIDAE
    MELOIDAE
    MYCTERIDAE
    BORIDAE
    PYTHIDAE
    PYROCHROIDAE
    SALPINGIDAE
    ANTHICIDAE
    ADERIDAE
    SCRAPTIIDAE
    CERAMBYCIDAE
    BRUCHIDAE
    MEGALOPODIDAE.
    ORSODACNIDAE
    CHRYSOMELIDAE
    NEMONYCHIDAE
    ANTHRIBIDAE
    BELIDAE
    ATTELABIDAE
    BRENTIDAE
    ITHYCERIDAE
    CURCULIONIDAE
    Key to the Families of Beetles Found in the United States and Canada
    Taxonomic Index

    Biography

    Arnett, JR, Ross H.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J. Howard

    "…As the successor to the classic work on this subject, The Beetles of the United States: A Manual for Identification by R.H. Arnett, Jr. published nearly 40 years ago (1960), this excellent set is indispensable for graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals seriously interested in beetle identification and ecology."
    --CHOICE, January 2003.

    Un magnifique volume qui complËte le premier de la sèrie, avec ses 22 familles les plus primitives des Colèoptëres, dont les Carabiques. Cette fois 109 familles sont traitèes, soit 131 familles en tout. Nous sommes loin du premier volume de Ross Arnett "The Beetles of the United States" publiè en un seul volume en 1962. J'avais quant á moi l'èdition de 1968. Cet ouvrage comportait alors 1112 pages et ètait imprimè en petit format. La qualitè de la publication et des illustrations n'ètait en rien comparable aux volumes actuels. Une belle production de CRC Press qui fait honneur á cette maison d'èdition. Une trës complète bibliographie termine les chapitres ....

    Fèlicitons, les auteurs, les collaborateurs, et finalement les èditeurs d'avoir rèalisè ce magnifique ouvrage. Ces deux volumes restent indispensables á qui veut Ètudier la faune colÈoptÈrologique de l'Amèrique du Nord et du Nord du Mexique, en un mot la faune nèarctique. Cette faune a des èlèments en commun avec l'Asie et surtout le Vieux monde, les connections ayant existè á diverses èpoques avec les continents voisins. La faune des Antilles, de l'Amèrique Centrale n'est pas loin non plus et ce livre peut servir de base á leur ètude. Une mise á jour de cette qualitè serait peut-être nècessaire dans notre pays, coordinant les Faunes de France, qui hèlas sont loin d'avoir fait le tour des Colèoptéres.

    Translation:

    "… We have come a long way from the initial work of Ross Arnett " The Beetles of the United States " published in a single volume in 1962.... The quality of that publication and its illustrations was nothing compared to the present volumes. A beautiful production of CRC Press.... A very complete bibliography is at the end of each chapter.

    " Congratulations to the authors, the collaborators, and, finally, to the editors for having put together this magnificent work. These two volumes will remain indispensable for those who want to study the Coleoptera fauna of North America that is north of Mexico, in a word the Nearctic fauna. This fauna has some elements in common with Asia and especially with the Old World, the connections having existed in various epochs with the neighboring continents. The fauna of the Antilles and of Central America is nearby and this book can act as basis for their study…"

    -Pierre Jolivet, Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, Paris, France

    "…these two volumes cover more North American species than any previous text."
    -Northeastern Naturalist, Issue 12/4, 2005