The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia - Softcover

Braby, Michael F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0643090274 ISBN 13: 9780643090279

Verlag: CSIRO Publishing, 2004

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Winner of the 2005 Whitley Award for Field Guides.

This is the first complete field guide to all butterfly species on Australia’s mainland and its remote islands.

Written by one of Australia's leading lepidopterists, it is stunningly illustrated with color photographs of each of the 416 currently identified species. There is also a distribution map for each species on the Australian mainland.

It covers the five major family groups: Hesperiidae, Paplionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae and Lycaenidae, as well as the family Riodinidae, which has but a single species in Australia.

The introduction covers adult structure, classification, distribution and habitats, and life cycle and behavior. This is followed by accounts of each of the 416 species, giving common name, scientific name, and other names (if any), as well as details of behavior, habitat, status, and larval food plants. Accompanying each species is a distribution map, and photographs of the upperside and underside of both male and female specimens.

The book also contains a checklist of all species, a list of entomological contacts, a glossary, a bibliography, an index of common names and an index of scientific names.

Supplementary section Collecting and Preserving Butterflies is available as a free download (Adobe Acrobat format - 331 kb).

Features
* All 416 species photographed in colour
* Distribution map for each species on the Australian mainland
* Includes species found on Australia’s remote islands
* Complete introduction to the biology of butterflies, and their habitats
* Written by one of Australia’s leading lepidopterists

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Dr Michael Braby has spent the last 24 years collecting and studying Australian butterflies. He has reared and photographed numerous species and has built up a private collection of more than 5000 specimens. He is the author of the major two-volume standard text, Butterflies of Australia, which won the Whitley Medal in 2000 and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Harvard University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CSIRO Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0643090274
• ISBN 13: 9780643090279
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 339
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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