Author | Lott, D.A. & Anderson, R. |
Year | 2011 |
Title | The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland. Parts 7 & 8: Oxyporinae, Steninae, Euaesthetinae, Pseudopsinae, Paederinae, Staphylininae |
ISBN | 978-0-901546-92-0 |
Series | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the British species known at the time |
Source | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 12, Parts 7&8, 340pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London |
Illustrations | Line drawings accompany the text, 32 pages of colour photographs of 190 specimens at the rear. |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Staphylinidae is one of the most speciose animal families. It contains a full 25% of our beetle fauna. The 6 subfamilies here treated fill the largest Handbook to date in the present series. Key to subfamilies, key to genera for each family and to species for each genus. The keys are laid out in the modern user-friendly style with illustrations beside many of the couplets. The short species accounts which follow each key include confirmatory characters. |
Examine | Stereo Microscope ( Compound Microscope is also useful) |
Specimen Preparation | Genitalia preps often required |
Identification difficulty | Quite a challenging group. |
Website url | www.royensoc.co.uk/publications/index.htm |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification, contains Checklist | Current | STAPHYLINIDAE | rove beetles | Animalia: Coleoptera |
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