Language: Bilingual in English and German
This bilingual study is an unusually comprehensive contribution to the phylogeny and evolution of Coleoptera in Permian and Mesozoic fossils. The main part of the work is focussed on the suborder Adephaga. The phylogenetic analysis is based on more than 20 detailed morphological treatments of larvae and adults of all families. Morphological features were analysed with non-numerical and numerical methods.