• SOUTHERN AFRICAN MOTHS & THEIR CATERPILLARS

SOUTHERN AFRICAN MOTHS & THEIR CATERPILLARS

: Staude (H.), Picker (M.) & Griffiths (C.)

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464pp., colour illus., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2023

 

Guide to more than 1,500 of the 11,000 species found in Southern Africa.

Includes photographs of both adult moth and larva, information on biology, habitat and distribution and an introduction covering evolution, life cycle, diversity and the ecological importance of moths.

Hermann Staude is the founder and project leader of the Caterpillar Rearing Group, a citizen-science project of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa.

Mike Picker is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town. He is co-author, with Charles Griffiths, of Field Guide to Insects of South Africa and Pocket Guide to Insects of South Africa.

Charles Griffiths is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town.