‎Deuve, T.‎
‎Les Coléoptères Buprestidae du Vaucluse. Inventaire et Atlas (Coleoptera).‎

‎2004 440 p., 1175 figures, 24 colour plates, 4to, cloth. Very good copy.The genus Carabus, described by Linnaeus in 1758, is widely distributed, comprising 853 species from the temperate regions of Europe, North Africa, Asia and North America. Due to their elegant forms and often sumptuous colours, these beetles are amongst the most often collected insects. They also provide precious material for scientists interested in the geographical variation of a natural group and the ways in which it has evolved. The Illustrated Catalogue of the genus Carabus of the World is a continuation of the catalogues published by the same author in 1991 and 1994. However, this new edition is more than a simple update, being considerably augmented by information on type localities of taxa and with drawings of the male aedeagus for all the species and the main subspecies, which often allow their identification. The type species of each subgenus is illustrated by a colour photograph. A new classification is proposed, taking into account recent work on the morphology of adults and larvae, along with published DNA analyses.‎

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