Olethreutine Moths of Australia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) - Monographs on Austr. Lepidoptera Vol 10

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Olethreutine moths often have fruit-boring larvae and this economically important group includes many horticultural pests such as codling moths, Oriental fruit moths and macadamia nut borers. This volume is the first reference to describe the 90 olethreutine genera present in Australia. This volume provides generic definitions, a key to genera, generic descriptions, and illustrations of adults, heads, venation, genitalia of both sexes and other diagnostic structures of all genera. Summaries of biology and distribution and a checklist for all named Australian species are given for each genus. Importantly, it includes a comprehensive reorganisation of olethreutine classification, based on generic revisions, with a worldwide impact. Nearly all olethreutine genera present in Australia extend into Asia and beyond, so the book will be relevant to horticultural pests throughout Asia, and crucial to an understanding of olethreutine evolution worldwide. Given the wealth of biological information, the book will be important for ecological work on phytophagous insects well beyond Australia.

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"This book is undoubtedly one of the most significant and original contributions to tortricid systematics to appear in the last few decades, and its impact likely will be felt by generations of tortricid systematics... Horak is to be congratulated for her tenacity in finishing this overwhelming project and creating a masterpiece in the process."-- "Newsletter of the Troop of Reputed Tortricid Systematists"
"Without any doubt, this book will have a crucial impact on our understanding of olethreutine evolution worldwide. It can be recommended to anybody interested in the systematics, ecology, applied entomology, or evolutionary biology of Olethreutinae."--Nuss "Nota Lepidopterologica"

Author Bio

Marianne Horak is curator of Lepidoptera at the Australian National Insect Collection at CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, with taxonomy, biology and phylogeny of tortricid and phycitine moths her research focus. She is one of the leading experts on tortricid moths, and her involvement with the group started with her PhD work at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Studies on the Papuan and Indonesian fauna provided the necessary basis to revise the Australian olethreutine fauna.