Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Introduction / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Taxonomic Information / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Distributional Information / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Bibliographic Information / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Acknowledgements / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Coordinator of This Volume / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Mailing and E-Mail Addresses of the Authors / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Errata / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- New Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Acts, and Comments / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Catalogue / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- References / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Index / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana -- Index / Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana.

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A comprehensive work covering the about 100,000 species of Coleoptera known to occur in the Palaearctic Region. The complete work is planned for 8 volumes that will be published in intervals of about 18 months. The information provided for each species will be the following: • Primary taxonomic information of all available names in the genus and species levels published by the end of 1999. • The taxonomic information below subfamily will be organized alphabetically. • The type species of genera and subgenera, including synonyms, are given. • The area covered also includes the Arabian Peninsula, Himalayas and China. • The distributional data of species and subspecies is given per country. • Detailed distributional information for strict endemics is given. • Introduced species are indicated. The catalogue is a collective work of about one hundred coleopterists from Europe, Japan, America and Australia.