Author: Hacker, H. H.
Title: Fauna of the Nolidae and Noctuidae of the Levante with descriptions and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Appendix: revision genus Clytie Hübner, [1823]. (with 130 figures and 22 colour plates).
Description: Schwanfeld, Delta Druck und Verlag, 2001. Large 8vo (23.8 x 17.2 cm). 398 pp.; 130 text illustrations; 22 full colour plates with explanatory text leaves. Original full colour pictorial laminated boards. = This is an offprint from Esperiana, Buchreihe der Entomologie, volume 8. A series named after Eugen Johann Christoph Esper (1742-1810) with a portrait of Esper on p. 2. This work by the German entomologist Hermann Heinrich Hacker includes fine illustrations (including many type specimens) and excellent descriptions of new species and poorly known species of noctuid moths from the Levante (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Asian part of Egypt), but is useful for adjacent parts of Turkey, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of the Mediterranan too. An excellent, clean, and unmarked copy.

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