British Pyralid Moths: A Guide to Their Identification

Goater, Barry

ISBN 10: 0946589089 / ISBN 13: 9780946589081

Published by Harley Books, Colchester, 1986

About this Item

175 pages; 8 colour plates. Original dust jacket very good not price clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, light dust soiling tot he top edges, otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 038206

Bibliographic Details

• Title: British Pyralid Moths: A Guide to Their Identification
• Publisher: Harley Books, Colchester
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0946589089
• ISBN 13: 9780946589081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dyke, Robert
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Butterflies and Moths

About this title

Synopsis

No other book in print covers the British species of the family Pyralidae, which includes such familiar species as the Mother of Pearl, the China-marks and the Grass Moths. All 208 species are clearly described in the text and all are illustrated photographically in the 272 figures on the colour plates, showing sexual dimorphism and different colour forms. The text gives a concise description of each species and its more striking races or forms, aided, where necessary, by line-drawings. Information is included on life histories, habits, seasonal occurrence, geographical distribution and host-plants. There is also a check list of the British Pyralidae.

About the Author

Barry Goater is one of the most active amateur field lepidopterists in the country and a former vice-president of SEL (Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica).