ATLAS OF
PALEARCTIC LEPIDOPTERA
The ATLAS OF PALEARCTIC LEPIDOPTERA seeks to provide a more rapid availability of illustrated synopses to all described species in the Palearctic Region, from Europe to Japan, than currently available. Each species account will include a concise summary covering all significant information on the species, involving nomenclature and subspecies, range and habits, biology and host plants, and illustrations of adults, larvae and genitalia. The figures of adults and larvae will mostly be in color and of large size, usually also showing dorsal and ventral surfaces of the wings.
The range of the series will be Eurasia, to Japan, including north Africa (to mid-Sahara), most of the Middle East to Tibet, and in China as far south as the Yangtze River. For Japan, only the mainland will be includer, since the southern islands such as the Ryukyus are more properly of the tropical Oriental fauna.
The species pages of the ATLAS will comprise a subscription series, with sets of issues published periodically as convenient groupings, either families or larger genera. Each species page will be prepared for loose-leaf housing but with pages bonded as a booklet, thus allowing subscribers to use either binders, for possible future revisions to be added, or to use each set as a booklet.
The species pages will be part of a new world Lepidoptera Species Data Sheet series, eventually comprising all Lepidoptera of the world. Thus, species will be numbered within families by faunal region as part of the world listing. This also integrates all species within the new Lepidopterorum Catalogus (new series), jointly published by Scientific Publishers and the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera.
Publication plans call for a new catalog to species as the first publication plan.
This exciting new ATLAS series will for the first time offer concise information and illustrations for all Palearctic Lepidoptera in a readily available format. It is hoped that the series will be well received, with sufficient subscribers to complete the project.
FEATURES
-- all species figured in color, with concise summaries of taxonomic and biological information on each species and subspecies (figures show range of variation)
-- data sheet for each species: synonymy, diagnosis, range of subspecies (including map), genitalia, flight period, habitat, hosts, immature stages, biology
-- figures of male and female genitalia
-- figures of immature stages (color and/or line drawings)
-- booklet publication (8 1/2 x 11 inch format) with setup for ring binders, allowing replacement by future page revisions
-- comprehensive revised checklists for each family to species and subspecies (current to date of publication), with future revisions
-- first issues on butterflies, starting with the Papilionidae
-- low cost per set of issues for pre-publication subscribers
-- bibliography to the key literature on each species
-- index to larval host plants for each family
-- species integrated into world Lepidoptera Species Data Sheet system
PUBLICATION PLAN
Introduction and Faunal Synopsis
Checklist (3 parts) (pending)
Fasc. 1-124. Micropterigidae to Noctuidae
General Index
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