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Post by mygos on Aug 29, 2017 14:24:17 GMT
Just received from the publisher STURM Ralph Butterflies of the world, part. 45 : Papilionidae XVI : Papilio machaon - group, Iphiclides podalirius, Papilio alexanor Keltern, Goecke & Evers, 2017, 12 pp., 32 color plates A+, Michel
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 29, 2017 19:06:31 GMT
Good to hear it is finally published.
Adam.
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Post by nomad on Aug 30, 2017 7:27:14 GMT
I have often wondered why these slim paperback volumes, have no text but just plates. It seems that these books are produced by specialists for like minded specialists. I think I saw a reference to text once with one of the volumes on "Birdwings" but it was not in English. It would have been nice to read in English, an introduction to the species mentioned and about their biology and ecology and distribution maps for each subspecies. I think this would have given this World series a much wider appeal.
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Post by africaone on Aug 30, 2017 8:33:14 GMT
The aim of this collection as far as I know, is not to make revisions or monographies, just a kind of world catalogue as Seitz or D'Abrera. Texts are available (sometimes in different langages) apart. The quality of the collection is in the quality of the picture, to be updated and done by specialist of the question (often the best today).
Making texts, maps, descriptions, etc. needs time, money and competence that probably could had condemned the project.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 30, 2017 14:30:47 GMT
There are a number of text volumes in the series, such as the Parides work by Racheli and a number of others, but these are all published as Supplements separate to the main volumes of plates. In the case of Parides there was a separate volume of the main series published by the late Edwin Moehn at the same time as Racheli's text revision of the genus. Similarly Bollino & Racheli published a Supplement on Parnassiinae (excluding Parnassius) at the same time as a plates volume in the main series.
Adam.
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Post by miguel on Sept 3, 2017 15:26:08 GMT
Then,Iphiclides feisthamelii is still a ssp of I.podalirius?
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 3, 2017 19:56:02 GMT
Sturm thinks it is, and while editing his text we deliberately didn't want to interfere with his opinions.
Adam.
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