Flora / Fauna Identification Key
By: Andrew G Duff(Author)
768 pages, 60 plates with 360 colour photos; b/w photos, b/w line drawings
The concluding volume to the definitive beetle fauna of Britain and Ireland covers the rove beetles.
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Since the publication of volume 1 in 2012, Andrew Duff's Beetles of Britain and Ireland has become the definitive beetle fauna for the British Isles, being the first comprehensive account since Joy's A Practical Handbook of British Beetles, published in 1932. After the publication of volume 4 in 2016 and volume 3 in 2020, the publication of volume 2 completes this monumental task. This book covers the very large family Staphylinidae (rove beetles) exclusively. As this has been the most challenging family to prepare keys for, it was postponed to the end of this project. An extended preface to this volume provides information on finding rove beetles, collecting equipment, identification tips, rove beetle morphology, specimen preparation and curation, taking measurements, and changes to the checklist.
Volume 2 features:
- keys to 1148 species in 19 subfamilies and 254 genera, with family, subfamily and genus introductions;
- detailed species notes including supporting characters, habitat, phenology, distribution and abundance;
- a bibliography;
- 60 colour plates with 360 photographs of selected species;
- and an index to scientific and English names.
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Flora / Fauna Identification Key
By: Andrew G Duff(Author)
768 pages, 60 plates with 360 colour photos; b/w photos, b/w line drawings
The concluding volume to the definitive beetle fauna of Britain and Ireland covers the rove beetles.
"[...] for the first time ever, this single volume provides users with a one-stop means of identifying them all. If for no other reason, it will be an essential purchase for any coleopterist. [...] for those willing to rise to the challenge, the multitude of keys in this new work quite simply open up a whole new world of identification possibilities. [...] The core of this monumental work unfolds as a series of keys, each meticulously researched. As the acknowledgements testify, the keys have benefited from the advice of, and rigorous testing by, a team of active and expert coleopterist advisors, providing the user with a definitive, exhaustive and quite phenomenal body of work. [...] This work will have been eagerly anticipated by all coleopterists and indeed by anyone who has acquired the previous three volumes. None of them will be disappointed. In providing a modern, comprehensive, simpler, more manageable and accessible treatment of the stapylinids, this volume is bound to make an immense contribution to the better recording of rove beetles, which alongside the minuscule featherwing beetles, are perhaps the most neglected of beetle groups. Because of this, it is likely to have a hugely beneficial impact on British and Irish beetle recording overall. In this respect it is arguably the most vital of the four volumes of BBI and surely one of the more significant natural history volumes published for many years."
– Andy Brown, Atropos 76
