Waterbeetles of New Caledonia (Part 1)
- Series : Monographs on Coleoptera
Volume: 3 - Published In : Wien
- Illustrations : 161 col photos, 124 maps
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Based mainly on two field surveys carried out by the editors in 2001 and 2009, the knowledge of the Water Beetles of this poorly studied region is updated. This book includes 23 taxonomic/faunistic papers authored by 19 experts from 12 countries. A total of 58 new species (Dytiscidae: 28, Hydrophilidae: 17, Scirtidae: 12, Limnichidae: 1) is described from New Caledonia, all of them being endemic! In addition, six species are described from other Indo-Pacific Islands (Bacan, Ceram, Fiji, New Guinea, Wallis & Futuna). Four genera and seven species are newly recorded from New Caledonia in this volume. One endemic species, Berosus distigma Fauvel (Hydrophilidae), has not been collected since more than a hundred years and it is therefore regarded as extinct. Several other species are threatened with extinction.
Richly illustrated with 161 color photographs (98 beetles, 63 habitat pictures) and distribution maps for all 124 New Caledonian species treated.
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