Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. / Volume 4, : Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea, Cucujoidea / / edited by I. Löbl and A. Smetana.

• TeilnehmendeR: Löbl, Ivan.; Smetana, Alës.
• Place / Publishing House: Stenstrup, Denmark : : Brill,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (935 pages)

A comprehensive work covering the about 100,000 species of Coleoptera known to occur in the Palaearctic Region. The complete work is planned for 8 volumes that will be published in intervals of about 18 months. The information provided for each species will be the following: • Primary taxonomic information of all available names in the genus and species levels published by the end of 1999. • The taxonomic information below subfamily will be organized alphabetically. • The type species of genera and subgenera, including synonyms, are given. • The area covered also includes the Arabian Peninsula, Himalayas and China. • The distributional data of species and subspecies is given per country. • Detailed distributional information for strict endemics is given. • Introduced species are indicated. The catalogue is a collective work of about one hundred coleopterists from Europe, Japan, America and Australia.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Errata to Volumes 1 to 3 / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- New nomenclatorial and taxonomic acts, and comments / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Catalogue / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- References / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Index to family-group names / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Index to genus-group names / I. Löbl and A. Smetana.