Photographic Guide to Longhorned Beetles of Bolivia

Download or read book Photographic Guide to Longhorned Beetles of Bolivia written by Steven Wayne Lingafelter and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With loss of habitats throughout the world occurring at a staggering rate, it is critical to document what is being lost. This book strives to do that by focusing on longhorned woodboring beetles in Bolivia. Wholesale clearing of large tracts of land kills everything or forces species to move quickly to other areas, disrupting the balance of the ecosystem. This book will help people discover and appreciate some of the amazing diversity of life that exists in the undeveloped and/or remote natural areas of Bolivia. Nearly 1,900 species of longhorned woodboring beetles (Disteniidae, Vesperidae, and Cerambycidae) are known from Bolivia (with more than 200 species yet to be determined). This work features 500 of them, representing the breadth of morphological evolution.