Language: Chinese, English summary and Latin names index
ISBN/ISSN: 7535710689
Published on: 1992-01
Hardcover
The experts and scholars who joined in the compilation of the book are from the insect taxonomy research office of the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, part of the Colleges and Universities and the institute of China and the forestry departments and organizations of Hunan Province who have long been engaged in the forest protection cause. 4831 species of 2659 genus, 278 families and 19 orders of insects and compiled. This book has recorded over 310 local new species of Hunan since liberation, and developed 2 genus novum, 159 species nova. 8subsp. Nov. and 7 comb.nov. and 84 new to Chinese fauna. The model specimens are kept in the certification unit. There are 4830 morphology and feature illustrations in the book. This is a big tool book with orders, families collected more comprehensively and most illustrated among the present published books about forest insects.
