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An Introduction to the Moths of South Asia - Barlou H.S.

  • Производитель: Entomon
  • Модель: AA-2106
  • Наличие: Предзаказ
5890 ₽

United Kingdom, 1982, 400 pp. in black and white with pics. + 50 pp. in full color with photos, 19.5 х 26 cm, hard cover, good condition

It has been my good fortune to live for the last eleven years in an isolated house surrounded by primary and advanced secondary forest in the hills at two thousand feet, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I was urged to make a collection of the moths coming to light in the house; almost all the specimens illustrated here were caught in this way, using nothing more powerful than an ordinary 200-watt bulb against a whitewashed verandah wall. The species I first selected were those which appeared to me to be commonest, or most striking, and which in my innocence at the outset of the exercise I believed to be easily identifiable.

Apart from the relevant but incomplete volumes of “Macrolepidoptera of the World”, by Seitz, there was no suitable reference book for identifying even the commonest species, but I was fortunate in that my work involved frequent visits to London, and I was able to obtain the assistance of colleagues at the British Museum (Natural History) in comparing my specimens with identified series there. It seemed logical, in time, to provide a book of reference to fill the gap in the literature, and the present work is the outcome. I am particularly grateful to Dr. J.D. Holloway, of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, in this connection, especially for the Appendix, which he provided; a very substantial task involving over 600 dissections. Dr. Holloway completed this work with remarkable alacrity in the face of many other demands on his time, as well as helping with other aspects of this book.

The book highlights our lack of knowledge of the moths of South East Asia. We have valid scientific descriptions of perhaps three-quarters of the species occurring in the region, and no knowledge at all of the life histories of most of those described. If destruction of the primary forests of the region continues at the same rate as in the last decade, an enormous number of species will be lost.

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