Preliminary Material / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Introduction / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Taxonomic information / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Distributional information / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Biographical information / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Acknowledgements / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Authors / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Errata to Volumes 1 to 7 / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Catalogue / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- References / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Index to family-group names / I. Löbl and A. Smetana -- Index to genus-group names / I. Löbl and A. Smetana.

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Volume 8 of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera provides a list of all taxa of the bulk of the family Curculionidae and of Cryptolaryngidae reported from the biogeographical realm covered. For the genus and species-groups taxa all available names are given, and for the valid species and subspecies the distribution per country is shown, including more details for endemic taxa. Type species are listed for all genus-group names. The work is based on verification of the primary sources, and the respective references are given. Particular chapters deal with the actual impediments of taxonomy, nomenclatural and taxonomic problems, and corrections to previously published volumes of the Catalogue .

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