Butterflies of West Africa
Title | Butterflies of West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Torben Bjørn Larsen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
This book summarizes the available knowledge about the West African butterflies-which number almost 1,500, in many cases with several subspecies. Its taxonomy and nomenclature are completely up-to-date. The book is by far the most in-depth treatment of any regional butterfly fauna in tropical Africa. An overview of the ecology and biogeography of the region is given in the introductory chapters and their affinities with those of Africa and the world as a whole are discussed. The systematic part and its 130 plates should allow for the confident identification of all West African butterflies. The book covers the 15 countries between Senegal and Nigeria, from the tropical rainforests to the edge of the Sahara desert, including: Mauritania,The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali,Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Bénin, Nigeria, and Niger. For each species the following data are given: a) a list of countries from where they are known and of specific localities in the case of rare species; b) broad indications on how the species fits into the main ecological and biogeographical framework of West Africa; c) information on their main habitats and behavior; d) information on early stages and the larval hostplants; and e) the West African distributions are supplemented by an overview of their presence and subspecies in the rest of Africa (which includes numerous unpublished country records from all over the continent). In certain 'difficult' genera, such as the Iolausgroup, the genitalia of all taxa are illustrated. Genitalia drawings are especially frequent in the chapter on the Hesperiidae where many were never adequately illustrated previously. About 20 new species and subspecies are described in a separate appendix.
Butterflies of West Africa
Title | Butterflies of West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Torben Larsen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 595 |
Release | 2023-01-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004531106 |
The Butterflies of Egypt
Title | The Butterflies of Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Torben Bjørn Larsen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Butterflies |
ISBN |
Field Guide to Butterflies of the Gambia, West Africa
Title | Field Guide to Butterflies of the Gambia, West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | David Penney |
Publisher | Siri Scientific Press |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0955863627 |
Discovering Jamaican Butterflies
Title | Discovering Jamaican Butterflies PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Turner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2017-06-30 |
Genre | Butterflies |
ISBN | 9780692877067 |
Jamaican butterflies
A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the West Indies
Title | A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the West Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Denbigh Riley |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Butterflies & Barbarians
Title | Butterflies & Barbarians PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Harries |
Publisher | James Currey Publishers |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0852559844 |
The Swiss missionaries played a primary role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasises how these European intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent. Central to this group was Junod who became a pioneering collector in the fields of entomology and botany. He would later examine African society with the methodology, theories and confidence of the natural sciences. On the way he came to depend on the skills of African observers and collectors. Out of this work emerged, in three stages between 1898 and 1927, an influential classic in the field of South African anthropology, Life of a South African Tribe. At the same time Patrick Harries examines how local people absorbed imported ideas into their own body of knowledge. Through a process of interchange and compromise, Africans adapted foreign ways of seeing and doing things, and rapidly made them their own. This is a history of new ideas and practices that shook African societies before and during the early years of colonialism. It is equally a history of ordinary people and their ability to adapt, change, and subvert these ideas. Professor T.O. Ranger says: 'Now, really for the first time, Harries sets these arguments in a wonderfully persuasive, detailed and dynamic context. He really understands the principle of nineteenth-century botany and insect classification, the organising concepts of linguistics, and the changing assumptions of ethnography and anthropology. One gets a profound sense of intellectual formation of debate and development of ideas. Missionary ideas are themselves no single thing but constantly in debate and in flux.'