ISBN10: 830109740X, ISBN13: 9788301097400, [publisher: PWN + Elsevier] Hardcover Oversized cloth hardcover, 612 pages, b&w plates (pp 315-595), NOT ex-library. Weight: 2.9 pounds (please note: extra postage will be required). A great copy, minor handling wear, likely unread. Interior is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps; firm secure binding. In an untorn, near-fine dust jacket. -- The morphological characters and their evolutionary tendencies are analysed on the basis of a material comprising more than 200 species world-wide. The author proposes a classification of the superfamily according to the cladistic procedure, and he demonstrates that the application of a phenetic or evolutionary procedure does not permit the establishment of a natural classification. He subdivides the Phthiracaroidea into 2 families, 3 subfamilies, 5 tribes, 9 genera and 4 subgenera. Subsequently, diagnoses of the superior taxons are presented, with comments concerning those genera regarded as synonyms. The chapter on the inventory of species consists of two parts. First part deals with 223 species studied by the author and with 47 species considered to be synonyms. The second part is concerned with the remaining 116 species and subspecies, including some 25 uncertain forms or species inquirendae. A list of new localities in various regions of the world is given, as well as the descriptions of 223 species with their drawings and geographic di ...
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