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Downloaded from Brill.Com10/01/2021 03:13:49AM Via Free Access T  E,  147, 2004 T E, 147, 2004 BOOK REVIEWS Continued from page 190: it covers the Brentidae (Apioninae and Nanophyinae) of the British Isles and continental Europe north of each of the five sections a panel of the left-hand side of 520 N. Most coleopterists will know the Apioninae the page provides hyperlinks to the pages contained in and Nanophyinae as belonging to the family Api- that (part of the) section and the root page of the par- onidae in accordance with the classification as pro- ticular part within the section. The layout of the pages posed by Alonso-Zarazaga (1989-1990) and others, or is consistent, using a dark background colour for to the families Apionidae and Nanophyidae respec- menu navigation and green as background with yel- tively, following o.a. Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal (1999). low support for the main contents. Most texts green Also Sforzi & Bartolozzi (2004) treat the Brentidae on the blue background and dark blue on the green and Apionidae as separate families. Gønget has adopt- background, and links are always in red. The use of ed the classification of Thompson (1992) and Kuschel fonts will always remain open to debate, though it (1995) and considers the Brentidae to include the would be interesting to see what the pages would look North European subfamilies Apioninae and Nano- like if a sans serif font were used instead of the Times phyinae, together with the Brentinae, Eurhynchinae, New Roman. Of course, this is mostly fussing about Cyladinae, Antliarhininae and Tanainae, which are detail and when one uses this photographic atlas an- not represented in Northern Europe. In contrast with nex key often, one will get used to whatever font or other authors (e.g. Behne 1994, Alonso-Zarazaga & layout is chosen. Lyal 1999, Russell 2001, 2004), Gønget treats the A truly missed opportunity is the fact that the CD- Apioninae as to comprise only a single genus, Apion, ROM was not produced in a format that can be used on divided into subgenera and species. Many of these are an Apple Macintosh. This would have been very easy considered genera by other authors. for a CD-ROM with html contents only. At least on sys- Book and CD start with a number of general chap- tems with OS 9.x or earlier this CD-ROM can only be ters which include chapters on the taxonomic history browsed, images and html pages can be viewed, but of the Apioninae and Nanophyinae, the collecting and the latter often with errors because of missing images. preservation of species, the phylogeny and classifica- This is due to the fact the chosen CD-format on Mac- tion of Brentidae, their morphology, their bionomics intosh converts file and directory (or folder) names to and ecology, and on their economic importance. an eight + three character format. In Macintosh There also is a key to North and Central European browsers this means that virtually all links are broken, families of Curculionoidea. Next follow the identifica- since the html-extension is abbreviated to and htm-ex- tion keys and detailed descriptions of 134 species. The tension. Otherwise, this CD-ROM is a useful addition keys are very usable and well provided with useful il- to every printed key since it offers alternative charac- lustrations: 357 original line drawings and 8 colour ters for at least some species and gives plenty of good plates with drawings of 58 species (by the late Dr. quality illustrations for virtually all species. Miguel Hansen). In the species accounts detailed de- [Paul L. Th. Beuk] scriptions are presented, together with diagnoses in which attention is paid to differences with closely re- lated species. Also for each species biological informa- tion is presented on host plants, larval development, Hans Gønget, 2003. The Brentidae (Coleoptera) of North- phenology, and known parasites. ern Europe. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavia 34. Brill, At present the number of Dutch species of Apioni- Leiden, Boston. CD-ROM. ISBN 90-04-13663-0. 289 pages, 8 colour plates, 357 text figures. Price: € 91,–, but see nae amounts to 86 and the Nanophyinae to three. All Note below. these species are treated by Gønget. This book is a per- fect alternative for Behne (1994), especially so for those This CD-ROM is the electronic version of Hans people who do not master the German language. Gønget’s book published under the same title, in The book was already published in 1997 and was 1997. The book - and thus CD - treats all the species of earlier reviewed by Morris (1990). I totally agree with brentids (Curculionoidea: Brentidae) of Fennoscandia Morris’ conclusion that the book “cannot be too high- and Denmark, but also deals with species from adja- ly recommended as a thorough and detailed account cent countries including the Netherlands. So actually of the species of this interesting group”. Continued on page 282 236 Downloaded from Brill.com10/01/2021 03:13:49AM via free access T E, 147, 2004 BOOK REVIEWS Continued from page 236: the classification as proposed by Alonso-Zarazaga (1989, 1990) is given in the left-hand column, to be One important advantage of CD-ROM’s over books compared with the system used in the book and on the would be that they offer the opportunity to employ in- CD, given in the right-hand column. On the CD (page teractive multiple-access tools for identification and di- 25) the right-hand column is missing. agnosis. The Brentidae (Coleoptera) of Northern Europe Since the CD is largely a pdf-version of the original on CD is announced as an electronic version of the book, the most recent literature on brentid beetles is book. And – unfortunately – that’s what it is. In fact not included or referred to. This is true for general the CD-ROM is just a pdf-version of the book, which works like Alonso-Zarazaga (1999) and Russell (2001), can be read with Adobe Acrobat reader. but this will also be so for faunistic literature presenting However, there are some differences between book new distributional data. However, during a quick scan and CD. Both book and CD contain a chapter on the through recent literature I only found that Ixapion var- distribution of the brentid species. Within Fennoscan- iegatum was discovered new to Britain (Foster et al. dia and Denmark the distribution is presented by 2001) and thus now occurs within the distributional province. In the book this distribution is presented as a area that is covered by the book and CD. catalogue, and the presence per province is indicated with black dots. On the CD the same distributional Book or CD? data is presented on maps, which is of course an im- I admit that CD-ROM’s may have specific advantages provement. Another feature of the CD-ROM is that over books. Unfortunately, this CD-ROM does not pre- there are dynamic references to figures, plates and sent an interactive multimedia identification tool, but maps: with one click one jumps to the relevant page. In is a book in pdf-format and should largely be used just the book the species drawings are organised in plates: like a book. I myself prefer to read text from paper and there are eight plates each with six to eight drawings, not from a computer screen. Despite the few extra fea- summing up to a total of 58. The plates are useful, tures (maps instead of catalogue, larger colour plates though their quality is not especially good. On the CD- and dynamic references to figures, plates and maps) I ROM there is only one figure per plate, of full-page size, will continue using the book and not the CD. This with a better quality. However, the plates are by far not publication is not a good CD-ROM on Brentidae, but as good as those in Russell (2001, 2004). These are the it’s chiefly a CD-version of a very good book. best I have ever seen and not likely to be improved. The pdf-file on the CD-ROM still contains some Note: traces or relics from the original book text. In the ab- Unfortunately the book is out of print. But there stract it says that the distribution of species at the are still copies available from several (antiquarian) province level is presented in a catalogue, instead of on booksellers: I found quite a few offers of new and used distribution maps. Also in the paragraph on the distri- book, during a quick search on the Internet. The book bution in Fennoscandia and Denmark one is referred is also listed in a recent (paper) catalogue of a well- to the catalogue on page 247, while on the CD there is known bookseller, that I just received. The original no catalogue and the maps start not on page 247 but price was Dfl.195 (± € 89,-); now several booksellers on page 381. offer it for less than €100,-. The CD-ROM is offered for In the paragraph on host plant relationships, both € 91,-.There is a special price offer of € 86,- if bought in the book and on the CD, one is referred to the cata- together with another book by Hans Gønget, pub- logue of food plants on page 275. The list of food lished in 2003: The Nemonychidae, Anthribidae and plants on the CD, however, starts on page 587. Attelabidae (Coleoptera) of Northern Europe. Fauna The numbering of the colour figures is different in Entomologica Scandinavia 38. Brill, Leiden, Boston. book and on CD. In the book the species are numbered ISBN 90-04-13265-1.
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