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A comprehensive work covering the about 100,000 species of Coleoptera known to occur in the Palaearctic Region. The complete work is planned for 8 volumes that will be published in intervals of about 18 months. The information provided for each species will be the following: * Primary taxonomic information of all available names in the genus and species levels published by the end of 1999. * The taxonomic information below subfamily will be organized alphabetically. * The type species of genera and subgenera, incl. synonyms, are given. * The area covered also includes the Arabian Peninsula, Himalayas and China. * The distributional data of species and subspecies is given per country. * Detailed distributional information for strict endemics is given. * Introduced species are indicated. The catalogue is a collective work of about one hundred coleopterists from Europe, Japan, America and Australia. A revised edition of this work will be published in November 2017.

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I. Lobl, Ph.D. (1937), Curator emeritus, Museum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland. He has published monographs and over 300 entomological papers, and was co-editor of the previous volumes of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (see Brill, 2013 and 2015). D. Lobl, M.Sc. (1969), operates a consulting company in Geneva, Switzerland. He is interested in databases and has collaborated on the volumes 3 to 8 of the first edition of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, and was co-editor of the volumes 2 and 3 of its new edition.

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