The Darkling Beetles of the Sinai Peninsula - Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae

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An expanded and updated edition of the out-of-print 2003 supplementum of Zoology in the Middle East.... Show more

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Product description

Authors	Martin Lillig & Tomáš Pavlíček
ISBN	9781032187204
Publisher	CRC Press
Language	English
Pages	168
Size	234 x 156 mm
Images	Images and line drawings
Format	Paperback
Year published	2022

An expanded and updated edition of the out-of-print 2003 supplementum of Zoology in the Middle East, this concise guide to Darkling Beetles of the Sinai Peninsula has been sought after by researchers in taxonomy, faunistics and biogeography. The new book includes two additional subfamilies of tenebrionid beetles (4-5 species), identification keys and more than 90 colour photographs and species distribution maps.

Zoogeographically speaking, the Sinai Peninsula is a crossroad and, at the same time, a center of speciation. Despite its generally arid character, the region harbours a wide range of habitats, from sea level to over 2,500 m above. About 10 percent of the Sinai darkling beetles are endemic to the area. The inclusion of species photographs and identification keys makes this book an invaluable reference field guide, for both specialists and non-specialists, who will thus be able to discover the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of darkling beetles in the Sinai Peninsula.

Tables of Contents

Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
List of acronyms and abbreviations used in the book

I. Description of the Sinai Peninsula
II. Collection method and analysis of the darkling beetle distribution
III. Species richness and endemism of Tenebrionidae beetles in the Sinai Peninsula
IV. Ecology of desert darkling beetles
V. Identification keys for the Tenebrionidae taxa recorded on the Sinai Peninsula
VI. Darkling beetles present in the Sinai Peninsula
VII. Incorrect and doubtful records (in alphabetic order)
VIII. Species expected to be found on the Sinai Peninsula (in alphabetic order)

References
Taxonomic Index