The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia - Softcover

Theischinger, Gunther; Hawking, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0643090738 ISBN 13: 9780643090736

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Steve Parish Publishing is steadily expanding its Natural History Guide range with authoritative guides to popular species in Australia. With stunning full-colour images and distribution maps, this book covers all 30 families, 110 genera and 324 species found in Australia. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia is another CSIRO title, and an excellent companion volume to The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia.|A full-colour, comprehensive guide to the dragonflies of Australia.

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Review

"Not only is this book a great step forward in the knowledge of Australian dragonflies, it will cause a giant leap forward in such knowledge when more naturalists start to bring in observatons of the country's wonderful dragonflies."--Sidney W. Dunkle, author of Dragonflies Through Binoculars.

"This photographic guide covers the 324 species of damselflies and dragonflies of Australia. Each species is given a color photograph, text, a color range map and usually line drawings. Anyone interested in Australian damselflies and dragonflies will like this book."-- (09/01/2009)

"This wonderful field guide can be wholeheartedly recommended to all who are interested in the biodiversity of Australia and/or of the order Odonata. The book is of equal usefulness for laymen as well as for entomologists. The price is absolutely adequate, especially considering the outstanding quantity."-- (03/01/2007)

"This book will appeal to everyone, from beginners to students and researchers, and should become the first reference book that anyone interested in Australian Odonata will consult."--Richard Marchant"The Victorian Naturalist" (06/01/2007)

"The guide is a profusely illustrated visual feast. Highly recommended - at 376 pages, you get your money's worth, yet it remains portable for the field."-- (01/01/2007)

"It is an excellent tome and I have no doubt that it will be the 'Bible' of Australian Dragonflies for many years to come."--Stephen Richards, South Australian Museum, Vertebrates Department

About the Author

Gunther Theischinger has had a lifelong interest in aquatic insects. He has collected specimens in Australia, Greece, Spain and Australia and published more than 200 scientific papers. In the last few years he has described more than 60 new species and several new genera of Australian dragonflies. He has been a visiting scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra, and is a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and a Visiting Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. John Hawking is an invertebrate ecologist at Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre in New South Wales. He holds numerous workshops on identification of freshwater invertebrates.

Edition details

• Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0643090738
• ISBN 13: 9780643090736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376