Come to the TMAG to celebrate the launch of The Checklist of Tasmanian Beetles. The book, by Dr Simon Grove, Senior Curator, Invertebrate Zoology at the TMAG and published by the Royal Society with financial support from the Friends, is a catalogue of all the described species of beetles from Tasmania, including Macquarie Island. It includes a meticulous up-to-date list of 2,864 species, including over 600 endemics, and colour plates featuring at least one representative species from almost every one of the 117 beetle families.
Simon Grove will speak about Tasmania’s rich array of beetles, and describe how advances in fieldwork and taxonomic studies have contributed to this comprehensive work, which continues a long tradition of developing insect checklists with relevance to Tasmania going back to 1842.
This is free event.