The Darkling Beetles of the Sinai Peninsula
Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae
- 148 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Authors
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter I Description of the Sinai Peninsula
- Chapter II Collection Methods and Analysis of the Darkling Beetles Distribution
- Chapter III Species Richness and Endemism of Tenebrionidae Beetles in the Sinai Peninsula
- Chapter IV Ecology of Desert Darkling Beetles
- Chapter V Identification Keys for the Tenebrionidae Taxa Recorded on the Sinai Peninsula
- Chapter VI Darkling Beetles Present in the Sinai Peninsula
- Chapter VII Incorrect and Doubtful Records (In Alphabetical Order)
- Chapter VIII Species Expected to Be Found on the Sinai Peninsula (In Alphabetical Order)
- Bibliography
- Taxonomic Index