Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive interactive system for identifying all families, most subfamilies and selected tribes and genera of beetles from any part of the world. Anatomical, biogeographical and ecological information is included for each group, as well as images of representative specides and lists of published references. The database consists of a set of 945 taxa (family, subfamily, tribe or genus), each of which is coded for 322 characters with one to 13 character states (usually two or three). There are 6 additional text characters, which include short statements on geographic distribution, biology (habitat, feeding habits etc), nomenclature and classification. Also included are images of representative species with their accompanying specimen data and acknowledgements, and a short list of references pertaining to each group.
