British Entomological and Natural History Society

BRITISH HOVERFLIES AN ILLUSTRATED IDENTIFICATION GUIDE - Second edition

By Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk

Hardback: £30 non-members, £20 members; plus postage £5.20 for single copy (£8.40 for 2 copies or £9.50 for 3 copies) within UK. Charges for postage and packing for a larger consignment, or for outside the UK, are available on application.

When the original edition of British Hoverflies was published in 1983, it established a popular style of user-friendly identification keys that resulted in many more people taking an interest in these colourful and attractive insects. This second edition retains the layout and approach of the original but it also includes much additional information about the family as a whole, as well as extended and revised species accounts. Revised by Stuart Ball, Alan Stubbs, Ian McLean, Roger Morris, Steven Falk and Roger Hawkins, the new edition includes all 276 species known from Britain, compared with 256 in the first edition. The keys and text have been updated extensively to take account of our increased knowledge of hoverflies, and some species from continental Europe that might be expected to occur here are described in the keys and species accounts.

The second edition comprises 469 pages, including the 12 widely-acclaimed, original colour plates by Steven Falk, as well as 17 new detailed black and white plates of Cheilosia genitalia (by Steven Falk) and Sphaerophoria genitalia (by Stuart Ball). The summaries of the distribution of species and their flight periods have been updated following the publication of the Provisional Atlas of British Hoverflies in 2000. A check list of all British species gives the current nomenclature for the family, while a bibliography of over 800 references facilitates access to much of the, published literature on hoverflies. This new edition will appeal both to experienced dipterists and to those starting to study flies for the first time. Published by the British Entomological and Natural History Society, November 2002

Copies of British Hoverflies will be available, post free, at the BENHS Annual Exhibition and at the Dipterists' Forum Annual Meeting, each year.

BRITISH SOLDIERFLIES AND THEIR ALLIES:

By Alan Stubbs and Martin Drake with colour photographs by David Wilson.

Published 2001, 528 pp, 20 colour plates.

Hardback: £30 non-members, £20 members; plus postage £5.20 for single copy (£8.40 for 2 copies or £9.50 for 3 copies) within UK. Charges for postage and packing for a larger consignment, or for outside the UK, are available on application.

Including Bee-flies, Horseflies, Robberflies, Snipeflies and Stiletto-flies. The families represented are: Acroceridae, Asilidae, Athericidae, Bombyliidae, Rhagionidae, Scenopinidae, Stratiomyidae, Tabanidae, Therevidae, Xylomyidae and Xylophagidae. This comprehensive publication draws together much previously dispersed information and contains considerable original work. The British fauna is a remarkable assemblage of extraordinary and fascinating species, which are varied in both their appearance and life styles. Many species are of conservation significance, being associated with vulnerable and scarce micro-habitats.

The book includes well-illustrated keys to the adults of all 162 British species, and to the larvae and pupae of several families. Each species has an account of its ecology and natural history, incorporating much new information on the ecology and behaviour of these fascinating flies. Colour plates depict adults of most species, taken by a leading photographer of insect specimens, with an additional colour plate showing eye patterns of horseflies. This hardback book comprises 528 pages, with 18 colour plates of the adult flies and two of their early stages, as well as numerous line drawings alongside the keys and on plates depicting important identification features.

NATURAL HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDEN

By D.McClintock et al. 1963.
Proc.Trans.S.Lond.Ent.Nat.hist.Soc. 1963 part 2. 144p 8 b/w plates.
Paperback: £3-00 non-members, £2-00 members; plus postage £0-80 UK, £1-20 overseas.

The results of a survey of the plants and animals of the gardens 1960-63 including all orders of insects and recording Monochroa hornigi discovered there
new to Britain.

INVERTEBRATES IN THE LANDSCAPE: invertebrate recording in site evaluation and countryside recording.

Edited by P.T.Harding 1994 Br.J.Ent.Nat.Hist. 7 (Suppl 1), 64 pages.
Paperback: £6-00 non-members, £4-00 members; plus postage £0-80 UK, £1-20 overseas.

This special supplement to the Journal contains 7 articles on invertebrate recording, site evaluation, monitoring countryside changes and invertebrate recording schemes.

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