The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia
Second Edition
Gunther Theischinger & John Hawking
The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia
Second Edition
Gunther Theischinger & John Hawking
Paperback
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English
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Description
A comprehensive guide to the Australian dragonfly fauna that covers eight families of dragonflies and ten families of damselflies, comprising the 113 genera and 333 species. Stunning colour images and distribution maps are accompanied by identification keys for adults as well as larvae.
"These [Albert Orr] plates alone will help to increase appreciation of our remarkable and largely endemic Odonata, and endorse awareness of their diversity and their values as flagship taxa and tools in evaluating the quality of Australia’s inland water ecosystems."
"We are very lucky in Australia to have such a book covering all of our species, with a wealth of information to enable identification of the majority of dragonflies and damselflies seen or photographed. The photograph and map updates, and line drawings, represent a huge amount of work."
Günther Theischinger has had a lifelong interest in aquatic insects. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, and over the years has described more than 60 new species and several new genera of Australian dragonflies. He has been a visiting scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra, and is a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and a Visiting Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, USA.
John Hawking is an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University and former invertebrate ecologist at the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Wodonga. He studied the ecology of dragonfly larvae for his Master’s degree and has since published greatly on their ecology, taxonomy and conservation.
Albert Orr is a professional entomologist, writer, illustrator, consultant and scientific editor. He is a retired lecturer in ecology and invertebrate zoology, still actively researching. His main expertise is with butterflies, moths and dragonflies.
"These [Albert Orr] plates alone will help to increase appreciation of our remarkable and largely endemic Odonata, and endorse awareness of their diversity and their values as flagship taxa and tools in evaluating the quality of Australia’s inland water ecosystems."
"We are very lucky in Australia to have such a book covering all of our species, with a wealth of information to enable identification of the majority of dragonflies and damselflies seen or photographed. The photograph and map updates, and line drawings, represent a huge amount of work."
Günther Theischinger has had a lifelong interest in aquatic insects. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, and over the years has described more than 60 new species and several new genera of Australian dragonflies. He has been a visiting scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra, and is a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and a Visiting Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, USA.
John Hawking is an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University and former invertebrate ecologist at the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Wodonga. He studied the ecology of dragonfly larvae for his Master’s degree and has since published greatly on their ecology, taxonomy and conservation.
Albert Orr is a professional entomologist, writer, illustrator, consultant and scientific editor. He is a retired lecturer in ecology and invertebrate zoology, still actively researching. His main expertise is with butterflies, moths and dragonflies.