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| Les papillons
de jour et leurs biotopes
espèces, dangers qui les menacent,
protection
(The butterflies [of Switzerland]
and their habitats - the species, threats and conservation)
Ligue Suisse pour la Protection de la Nature
ISBN 3-85587-402-2
published 1987
A4 hardback, 512 pages
- full colour - covers all the true butterflies (Papilionoidea) the skippers (Hesperidae)
are in volume 2
| Volume 1: sorry: not currently available |
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Les
papillons et leurs biotopes - volumes 2 and 3
espèces,
dangers qui les menacent, protection
(The
butterflies and moths [of Switzerland] and their habitats - the
species, threats and conservation)
Groupe
de travail des lépidopteristes
Volume
2 ISBN 3-85587-031-4
published 1999
A4 hardback,
667 pages - full colour - covers skippers (Hesperidae), burnets (Zygaenidae),
hawkmoths (Sphingidae) plus Heterogynidae, Syntomidae, Limacodidae, Drepanidae,
and Thyatiridae
Volume
3 2 ISBN 3-85587-033-0
published 2005
A4 hardback, 911 pages - full colour - covers swifts, goat
moths, eggars, silk moths, prominents, tussocks & tigers (Hepialidae, Thyridae,
Lasiocampidae, Lemoniidae, Endromidae, Saturniidae, Bombycidae, Notodontidae,
Thaumetopoeidae , Dilobidae, Lymantriidae and Arctiidae)
| Volume 2: price £70.00 (post-free
in the UK) |
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| Volume 3: price £79.00 (post-free
in the UK) |
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Volumes 2 and 3 £145.00 ordered together:
£190.00
(post-free
in the UK) |
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- Probably the best series of books on the butterflies and moths of
any European country
- Top quality colour photographs illustrate the adults,
eggs, caterpillars, pupae and habitat or every species native to Switzerland (the
alpsi have the highest diversity of butterflies in western Europe
- Colour
plates (paintings of set specimens) enable identification of all species: aided,
for the more difficult species, by keys, line drawings and photographs of the
important identification features
- Introductory chapters cover the habitats,
conservation and many other aspects of the biology and ecology of butterflies
and moths
- The distribution maps show the present and older records in
Switzerland.
- Although as a distribution guide these books concern only
Switzerland the range of species covered (including all those in Britain) and
the high quality of the biological and ecological information make these books
essential for anyone interested in the Lepidoptera of western Europe
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