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VI PRAENORICA FOLIA HISTORICO-NATURALIA 2002 KÖNYVISMERTETÉSEK — BOOK REVIEWES Eduard Vives: Coleoptera - Cerambycidae Fauna Ibérica Vol. 12., 715 pp. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, 2000 No entomologist will be able to put this book down, despite its considerable weight and volume. EDUARD VIVES has, undoubtedly, written the most thorough and detailed monograph on Cerambycidae. This edition is in the original Spanish, that makes it a little difficult for non-Spanish readers. Its superb illustrations, however, will make up for this inconvenience. The Catalonian VIVES' have long been a notable family of entomologists. EDUARD'

s father, JOAN VIVES, who died recently, was, perhaps, the most accomplished specialist in Carabidae study, while EDUARD himself has been engaged in studying the Cerambycidae since his childhood. These several decades' experience is reflected in his book. The first chapter of the monograph describes the Chrysomeloidea superfamily, to which the Cerambycidae family belongs. After the introduction the morphology, the biology and the nutrition, as well as the origin and the evolution of the superfamily are discussed. The chapter ends with the identification key of adults and larvae across the whole family. A predominant part of the work focuses, of course, on the Cerambycidae family itself. The detailed introduction is followed by the taxonomy and distribution of the family. There follows the morphology and the anatomy of the adults, followed by thorough description of the non-adult phases. The next chapter is on the natural history (história natural) of the species belonging to the family. This section ends with a brief chapter dedicated to the collecting and preserving of the longhorn beetles, as well as to research techniques. A prevailing part of the book includes the detailed identification key of the subfamilies and that of the tribes. The identification key of the genera and species are also thoroughly elaborated and of outstanding quality. The description of each species covers the description of the imago, as well as the distribution and the detailed biology of the species. 199 illustrations assist the reader in becoming yet more familiar with each species. These detailed sections are followed first by a list consisting of more than 900 references then by Appendix 1 elaborating the relevant Synonyms and their combinations, and then by Appendix 2, an inventory of host plants to the species. The book ends with an exhaustive index of taxonomical names (species, genus,