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Dear Lepidopterists! We announce with great pleasure, that the first volume of the Witt Catalogue - A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North African Noctuoideahas been published. This is the first large enterprise after the famous Seitz series which covers the vast area from the Canary Islands throughout the Palaearctic North Africa, Europe and all parts the continental Asia towards eastern Indonesia! The new series is a direct continuation of the revisional works of the European Noctuidae fauna, the results of which are published in the Noctuidae Europaeae series.
		Volume 1 : Plusiinae 1 The first volume of the Catalogue provides a revised taxonomic content of the Eurasian and North African Plusiinae generaErythroplusia Ichinose, 1962, Macdunnoughia Kostrowicki, 1961, Sclerogenia Ichinose, 1973, Antoculeora Ichinose, 1973, Diachrysia (Hübner, [1821]), Euchalcia (Hübner, [1821]), Desertoplusia Klyuchko, 1984, Platoplusia Ronkay, Ronkay & Behounek gen. n., Polychrysia (Hübner, [1821]), Panchrysia (Hübner, [1821]), Lamprotes Reichenbach, 1817, PlusidiaButler, 1879, Chlorochrysia Ronkay, Ronkay & Behounek gen. n., Autographa (Hübner, [1821]), Megalographa Lafontaine & Poole, 1991, CornutiplusiaKostrowicki, 1961, Syngrapha (Hübner, [1821]) and Plusia Ochsenheimer, 1816. open details
Plusiinae I. contains 116 text pages with the latest taxonomic information, full synonymy and effective diagnoses of all known Palaearctic and Oriental taxa of the above-mentioned genera. There are 2 new genera, 7 new species and 3 new subspecies described in the book. The volume is illustrated with 38 colour plates of high quality magnified photos displaying all taxa included and with 12 colour plates showing the variation of each taxon in natural size. The genitalia of all species and subspecies are shown in 150 black and white plates. The whole book counts altogether 348 pages. The high quality printed new book is very useful for both the taxonomists, libraries of scientific institutes and professional amateur collectors, as well as for those naturalists who are interested in the true biodiversity of both the Eurasian Fauna and the nocturnal lepidopterans.
Price/book: 120.00 EUR (+ postal and packaging cost).