Recent Sawfly Research
Synthesis & Prospects

Edited by Stephan M. Blank, et al
September 2006
Verlag Coecke & Evers, Keltern
Distributed by
ISBN: 3937783199
701 pages, Illustrated, 7 x 9½"
$299.50 Hardback


A Feitschfrift dedicated to the work of both Manfred Kraus and David R. Smith, Recent Sawfly Research: Syntehsis and Prospects is a step towards understanding the problems of biodiversity within a specifically delimited taxonomic group.

Selected Contents:
Reviews
Development in 'Symphytan' Phylogenetics in the 20th Century: Towards a Consensus
Chromosomes of Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)- A Survey Including New Data

Life History & Ecology
Differing Patterns of Chemically-Mediated Defence Strategies in Nematinae
   versus Phymatocerini Larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
On the Sawfly Pristiphora subartica in Spruce Plantations of the Southern Alps

Taxonomy
Taxonomy and Evolution of Tenthredo (Elinora) Species Similar to T. dahlii
   and T. koehleri (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
The Symphyta of the Ethiopian Region. Genus Athalia Leach, 1817 - Athalia vollenhoveni-group

Faunistics
Additions and Changes to the Checklist of Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of Estonia (I)
Interesting Records of Sawflies from Italy
   (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Xyelidae, Pamphiliidae, Siricidae, Orussidae, Cimbicidae & Diprionidae)

Checklists
European Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) - A Species Checklist for the Countries
Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of China - Checklist and Review of Research
Checklist of the Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of India
Checklist of the Pergidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Western Hemisphere,
   with a New Genus and Two New Species
Checklist of the Pergidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of Australia

Appendices
Abstracts
Index of Sawfly Names
Index of Family Group Names
Index of Planet Names
Addresses
Contents of the CD-ROM
Colour Plates 1-16


Zoology
Entomology


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