Zdzisława T. Stebnicka (2011)

Aegialiini and Eremazini of the World (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Iconography.

92 pp., hardback, ISBN 978-83-61358-36-7

“Aegialiini and Eremazini of the World (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)” is the fourth and the last one book with iconography of scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabeidae) by T.Z. Stebnicka, the eminent taxonomist of Scarabaeidae. The two tribes discussed herein include relictual and highly aberrant 11 genera with 73 species known at that time, inhabiting Nearctic, Palaearctic, Australian and Neotropical regions. The essential diagnoses of the genera and species with their synonyms, location of the name-bearing types, data on affinities, distributions and bionomics are associated with colour photographs of beetles and drawings of the pertinent morphological details. A testable hypothesis of relationships among genera and species is visualized on the phylogenetic trees, as well as documented fossils of extinct and extant species of the Aegialiini are listed and commented. The bibliography contains monographs, revisions and other descriptive publications dealing with taxonomy and biology of both tribes on the world basis.