Каталог палеарктических жесткокрылых (том 1) - исправленное и дополненное издание (2017)

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera - Volume 1
Revised and Updated Edition (2017)
Archostemata-Myxophaga-Adephaga
Edited by I. Löbl & D. Löbl
Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
XXXIV + 1443 p.
Date of publication: 18 October 2017
ISBN 978-90-04-33028-3
 

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This new edition of the "Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera" gives 
a taxonomic overview of the most diverse group of all organisms living 
in the world-largest biogeographical area. 
The present volume is an updated edition of the first issue in 2003 
but restricted to data published before the year 2000. It contains 
information about 33914 taxa (together with synonyms), and increases 
the number of included species and other taxa by almost 5000. 
In addition, thousands of species have their distributional data completed, 
and their ranks, systematic positions and nomenclature corrected. 
Almost two hundred new acts fix systematics and nomenclature, and 
numerous problems are discussed. Even such well known genera as 
Calosoma and Carabus, or tribes as Bembidiini and Panagaeini, are 
completely reorganized compared to the previously published catalogues. 
Thus, the work is a scaffold for biotic surveys, ecological studies, and 
nature conservation. It responds to the urgent need of an assessment 
of the still remaining forms of life, threatened by the on-going 
destruction of habitats. Taxonomy provides the basic building blocks 
of our understanding of the diversity of life. It stems from innate 
human curiosity: confronted with an unknown species we ask first 
"what is it"? Taxonomists recognize species and other systematic 
entities (taxa), define them and place them within the framework of 
known organisms, providing means for their subsequent identification.

Contributors are: 
Antonio Tomas Tomas Andujar, Carmelo Fernandez Andujar, Michael Balkenohl, 
Igor Belousov, Yves Bousquet, Boleslav Brezina, Achille Casale, Hans Fery, 
Jan Farkac, Pier Mauro Giachino, Henri Goulet, Martin Hackel, Jiri Hajek, 
Oldrich Hovorka, Fritz Hieke, Jan Hrdlicka, Charles Huber, Bernd Jaeger, 
Ilya Kabak, Boris M. Kataev, Erich Kirschenhofer, Tomas Kopecky, Ivan Lobl, 
Werner Marggi, Andrey Matalin, Wendy Moore, Peter Nagel, Paolo Neri, 
Sergio Perez Gonzalez, Alexandr Putchkov, James A. Robertson, Joachim Schmidt, 
Jose Serrano, Luca Toledano, Uldis Valainis, Bernhard J. van Vondel, 
David W. Wrase, Juan M. Perez Zaballos, Alexandr S. Zamotajlov.