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Post by Adam Cotton on Dec 11, 2016 15:07:42 GMT
Just published, The Butterflies of Pakistan.Here is the text of the flyer I just received: V. Tshikolovets, J. Pagès (2016), 392 pp., 72 colour plates (about 4500 photographs). Pakistan is a unique country with a huge quantity of 7,000 m high mountains in one side, and some of the hottest deserts and semideserts on the other. There are the famous Karakorum mountains, Western parts of the Himalayas, with many local or endemic species, and the southern slopes of the Hindukush mountains, with the biggest endemism in the Palaearctic region. The Pakistan book includes 436 species, the biggest amount of species compared to any other book published in the series “The butterflies of Palaearctic Asia”. Registered are 24 new records, 8 taxa with new status, 2 status revised and described are 17 new species or subspecies. In the time of preparation, authors was visited for study and photographing collections of BM, ZMHU, SMNK and many others museums and private collections. Most of the butterflies illustrated on the plates was collected and keep by J. Pagès. This butterflies as rule in perfect condition and good prepared. Because was studied all references including of original descriptions, authors use correct name and established some new synonyms. This book will be useful for all who have interest not only Palaearctic fauna but also Oriental, and some species occuring in Pakistan have relatives or also occuring in Afrotropical region. ISBN 978-80-904900-8-6. Price EURO 129 More information can be found about other books in the series, titles by the same publisher, and ordering information here: sites.google.com/site/tshikolovetsbooksAdam. ------- Available on abebooks here
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Post by nomad on Dec 11, 2016 16:47:50 GMT
Very informative and well written review of the new book.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Dec 11, 2016 17:07:33 GMT
Very informative and well written review of the new book. I hope you are being sarcastic. It's not really a review, but the author/publisher's summary. Actually I just told Vadim T. that he should have let me edit the flyer before sending it out, and he asked me to do so. If he approves my version, which I just sent him, I will post it here later. Adam.
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Post by nomad on Dec 11, 2016 17:22:21 GMT
Actually I was not, but being complementary, you took the time to post details of the book, wherever the information came from. I am sorry that you took the post opposite to what I intended.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Dec 11, 2016 17:30:22 GMT
Oh no problem, I appreciate your compliments on my efforts to post the news. I thought you were having fun at the poor English in the flyer, and didn't think you were aiming the comment at me in any negative manner.
To be fair to Vadim Tshikolovets, his English has improved tremendously. When I first met him in 2005 he hardly spoke the language at all, only very basic words, and I didn't speak any Ukrainian or Russian (I still don't).
Adam.
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Post by nomad on Dec 11, 2016 17:39:17 GMT
The main thing is not how "English" is written, but I understood the authors description of their new book, which I am sure will be a major source of interest.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Dec 11, 2016 19:03:39 GMT
The main thing is not how "English" is written, but I understood the authors description of their new book, which I am sure will be a major source of interest. Yes, I get your point, although the quality of English grammar is 'lacking' the enthusiasm oozes through. I must add here that the “The butterflies of Palaearctic Asia” series has a large number of volumes with extensive coverage of the species in each country or area covered, with a scientific approach throughout the work; although Tshikolovets tends to be a lumper compared to many other authors. Each volume has extensive plates covering the taxa, often including photos of types, and also includes a useful gazetteer and bibliographic references for each taxon. I have most of the volumes here except for the more recent ones, due to my financial situation no longer allowing me to buy them. If I had the spare cash I would definitely buy them all. Adam.
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Post by nomad on Dec 11, 2016 19:33:04 GMT
Vadim Tshikolovets certainly visits some remote and dangerous places. Did he visit the mountains of Pakistan?
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Post by Adam Cotton on Dec 11, 2016 20:56:46 GMT
Vadim Tshikolovets certainly visits some remote and dangerous places. Did he visit the mountains of Pakistan? I don't know whether he has been to Pakistan himself, but he certainly visited Iran several times a few years ago. Between 2005 and 2008 he came to visit me several times for a "holiday" collecting in Laos during European winter, and has also been collecting in China a number of times recently. Adam.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Dec 11, 2016 21:14:33 GMT
He told me a year or two ago that he's working on a butterflies of China volume, which would take about 5 years from that time. That should fill a gap nicely.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Dec 11, 2016 21:58:11 GMT
Yes, he's been working on it for a number of years already, at least 10 years including field trips (he gave me some very interesting specimens he caught in Batang in 2006, so I know that for a fact); his books are based on a lot of work, and not just museum and literature analysis.
Adam.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 6, 2017 6:55:42 GMT
Very nice! I used to have two of his times of the butterfly fauna of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Those were amazingly well wri5en books with awesome plates. The closest I have been to Kyrgyzstan was going to and coming back from Afghanistan through Manas and Bishkek. Unfortunately, both times were in the dead of winter.
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Post by wollastoni on Jun 14, 2017 15:26:09 GMT
Jerome Pages was the first serious insect collector I met when I was a young collector. We are from the same city in Brittany (Rennes)
In this time, there was no internet and no entomological association in Rennes. Seeing his hundreds of drawers of Pakistani and Afghan leps was so impressive for the kid I was.
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