TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Jim
TI  - Colour identification guide to caterpillars of the British Isles: (Macrolepidoptera) 
SN  - 9789004261006
AV  - QL555.B65 P67 1997
U1  - 595.78/139/0941 21
PY  - 2010/// reprint
CY  - Denmark
PB  - Apollo Books
KW  - Caterpillars
KW  - British Isles
KW  - Identification
KW  - Pictorial works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Preliminary Material -- Description of Species -- Colour Plates -- Further Information -- Scientific Names of Foodplants -- Index of Scientific Names -- Index of English Names; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This is the first comprehensive photo-illustrated guide to the caterpillars of butterflies and macro-moths. The book illustrates over 850 different species, or about 95% of resident, extinct, regular or irregular immigrant species to the British Isles. All specimens are photographed in natural situations upon the relevant foodplants, including many varieties indigenous to continental Europe. Many of the species have never been illustrated as caterpillars before, either by artwork or by photography. This work has received unreserved support from the best and most competent entomologists. Though the book illustrates British species, it is most valuable for lepidopterists all over Europe and especially in North and Central Europe. Never before have so many superb colour photographs of Lepidoptera been brought together in a book. After Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, and List of larvae required for photographs, the systematic part with descriptions of the species follows. The text is for each species divided into the following chapters: Larva, with description; Foodplant; Habits, including information on how to breed the species. The book should appeal to anyone with an interest in European Macrolepidoptera
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004261006
ER  -