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Almost 140 years have passed since the publication of the first world catalogue of Bostrichidae (Gemminger and Harold 1869), including 11 genera with 112 species; together with the representatives of the present subfamilies Lyctinae and Endecatominae, placed (according to the ten accepted classification) in the family Ciidae, they listed 14 genera with 136 species currently considered to belong to Bostrichidae.
In 1894 French entomologist Pierre Lesne started to publish his long series of papers concerning the systematics and faunistics of the Bostrichidae. Thereafter, up to 1943, Lesne described and revised various groups of the family with great conscientiousness and - uncommon at the time - rich illustrative material. Moreover, with rare exceptions, he avoided separate descriptions of particular genera or species, having published rather extensive summarizing revisions. Meanwhile, in 1938 - as part of the monumental series "Coleopterorum Catalogus", edited by Sigmund Schenkling and published by Walther Junk - appeared the second world catalogue of the Bostrichidae, authored just by Lesne and containing 518 species. Since that time relatively few new taxa have been described, and Lesne's works, published at the end of XIX and first half of XX century, are still mostly actual. Almost 70 year after the second (Lesne's) we are hereby presenting the third world catalogue of the family Bostrichidae.
Catalogue include 574 species, gropued into 9 subfamilies, 11 tribes und 92 genera.
CONTENTS:
* Introduction
* Nomenclatorical new acts
* Acknowledgements
* Acronyms of collections
* Family Bostrichidae
* Subfamily Lyctinae
* Tribe Lyctinii
* Tribe Trogoxylini
* Subfamily Psoinae
* Tribe Chileniini
* Tribe Psoini
* Subfamily Polycaoninae
* Subfamily Euderinae
* Subfamily Dysidinae
* Subfamily Endecatominae
* Subfamily Dinoderinae
* Subfamily Bostrichinae
* Tribe Bostrichini
* Tribe Sinoxylonini
* Tribe Xyloperthini
* Subfamily Apatinae
* Tribe Apatini
* Tribe Dinapatini
* List od species described in or belong to genera:
* Apate
* Bostrichus
* Bostrychus
* Lyctus
* References
* Colour plates
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