Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) II

Download or read book Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) II written by EC Zimmerman and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the remainder of the primitive weevils (Division Orthoceri), namely the families Brentidae, Eurhynchidae and Apionidae. It catalogues 43 genera and 173 species and features almost 2000 individual drawings and black-and-white photographs. These illustrations are augmented by 270 full-colour habitus photographs in Volumes V and VI. The volume also includes an important chapter on the Immature Stages of Australian Curculionoidea by Brenda May, New Zealand, which describes the larval and pupal stages of 158 species of Australian weevils and features overviews of larval characters and their nomenclature as well as of rearing and preservation techniques applicable to weevil larvae. More than half the drawings in the volume accompany this chapter.