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Olethreutine Moths of Australia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

World / Checklist Identification Key Monograph Out of Print
By: Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai
522 pages, illus
Publisher: CSIRO
Olethreutine Moths of Australia
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  • Olethreutine Moths of Australia ISBN: 9780643090934 Hardback Jul 2006 Out of Print #42527
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Olethreutine moths often have fruit-boring larvae and this economically important group includes many horticultural pests such as codling moths, Oriental fruit moths and macadamia nut borers. This volume is the first reference to describe the 90 olethreutine genera present in Australia.

It provides generic definitions, a key to genera, generic descriptions, and illustrations of adults, heads, venation, genitalia of both sexes and other diagnostic structures of all genera. Summaries of biology and distribution and a checklist for all named Australian species are given for each genus. Importantly, it includes a comprehensive reorganisation of olethreutine classification, based on generic revisions, with a worldwide impact. The volume contains copious illustrations (two species per genus where possible) to convey generic concepts, and to allow identification of this economically important group. Nearly all olethreutine genera present in Australia extend into Asia and beyond, so the book will be relevant to horticultural pests throughout Asia, and crucial to an understanding of olethreutine evolution worldwide.

The diverse Australian olethreutine fauna is particularly rich in enarmoniine and grapholitine genera, several new to science and adding significantly to the concepts of these two tribes. Given the wealth of biological information, the book will be important for ecological work on phytophagous insects well beyond Australia.

This book is the Winner of the First JO Westwood Medal (Named in honour of leading 19th century British entomologist, John Obadiah Westwood, the JO Westwood Medal is awarded every second year by Britain's Royal Entomological Society and the Department of Entomology of the Natural History Museum, London, for excellence in insect taxonomy)

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Marianne Horak is curator of Lepidoptera at the Australian National Insect Collection at CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, with taxonomy, biology and phylogeny of tortricid and phycitine moths her research focus. She is one of the leading experts on tortricid moths, and her involvement with the group started with her PhD work at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Studies on the Papuan and Indonesian fauna provided the necessary basis to revise the Australian olethreutine fauna.
World / Checklist Identification Key Monograph Out of Print
By: Marianne Horak and Furumi Komai
522 pages, illus
Publisher: CSIRO
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