AuthorDuff, A.G.
Year2012
TitleBeetles of Britain and Ireland: Sphaeriusidae to Silphidae
ISBN978-0-9573347-0-0
SeriesBeetles of Britain and Ireland
TypeBook/Report
How CompleteAll the recent, established, species in Britain and Ireland, as known at the time
SourceBeetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 1, 496pp
IllustrationsColour photographs at the rear; half-tone photographs and line drawings accompany the text
Review (by Malcolm Storey)

A detailed and thorough account of our 887 species in these 18 families.

Beginner coleopterists will perhaps be surprised at the emphasis on dissection to check aedeagi and spermathecae.

This is the first of a planned series of four volumes which is intended to cover the adults of our entire beetle fauna. The other volumes are to follow at intervals of a few years, and not necessarily in numerical order.

This replacement for Joy’s "Practical Handbook" is long overdue!

Errata, Corrigenda & CommentsThe key to *Gnathoncus* in BBI1 is based on a faulty key and will not work well for *G. buyssoni* in particular. A review of the British *Gnathoncus* species by Steve Lane, Andrew Duff & Martin Collier, with a new key, has been submitted for publication in The Coleopterist.
Examine Stereo Microscope ( Compound Microscope is also useful)

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentCOLEOPTERAbeetlesAnimalia
For identificationCurrentADEPHAGAwater and ground beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentSPHAERIUSIDAEscavenger beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentGEORISSIDAEa family of scavenger water beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentHELOPHORIDAEa family of scavenger water beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentHISTERIDAEclown beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentHYDROCHIDAEa family of scavenger water beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentHYDROPHILIDAEa family of scavenger water beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentSPERCHEIDAEa family of scavenger water beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentSPHAERITIDAEsphaeritid beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentHYDRAENIDAEsmall water beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentLEIODIDAEround fungus beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentPTILIIDAEfeatherwing beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
For identificationCurrentSILPHIDAEsexton beetlesAnimalia: Coleoptera
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