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THE CARRION BEETLES OF CANADA AND ALASKA
Coleoptera; Silphidae and Agyrtidae
by Robert S. Anderson & Stewart B. Peck

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Catalog #9909, Carrion-Beetles-of-Canada-and-Alaska

1985, 121 pages, b/w frontispiece, 115 b/w illustrations, maps. This book provides a means of identifying adults of the various species of the families Silphidae and Agyrtidae and larvae of the various species of Silphidae known to occur in Canada and Alaska. It reviews available biological information (as of 1985), and documents the distribution of all these species in North America. Illustrated keys are given for identification of adults and known larvae of all species of North American silphids, north of Mexico, and of adults of all genera and species of North American agyrtids, north of Mexico. Keys to larvae and larval diagnoses are based on third instar larvae. Only those species occurring in Canada or Alaska are treated in further detail.

Species treatments include:

North American synonymy

brief diagnosis of the adult

brief diagnosis of the larva (if known)

brief statement of the species distribution

distribution maps

brief summary of the natural history of the species

North American fossil records

notes on geographic variation of adults

The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, Part 13. This book is out of print. BioQuip has located a limited quantity of copies. Paperback; 6 x 9".

9909

Anderson, Carrion Beetles of Canada

$21.00

THE CARRION BEETLES OF CANADA AND ALASKA Coleoptera; Silphidae and Agyrtidaeby Robert S. Anderson & Stewart B. Peck

THE CARRION BEETLES OF CANADA AND ALASKA
Coleoptera; Silphidae and Agyrtidae
by Robert S. Anderson & Stewart B. Peck