52 ENTOMOL. FENNICA Vol. 27

Book review

Danish , and Pyrrhocoroidea

Ole Fogh Nielsen & Lars Skipper 2015: Dan- status and general distribution, threats and re- marks bredtaeger, randtaeger og ildtaeger [Da- gional distribution in Denmark and instructions nish Pentatomoidea, Coreoidea and Pyrrho- on how to collect bugs. coroidea.] 202 pp. ISBN 978-87-92832-04-7. Eighty percent of the book deals with the 73 Apollo Booksellers, Denmark; info@apollo- species occurring in Denmark. The low species books.dk, www.apollobooks.com. Price 300 number allows for more space for each species. DKK, 43 EUR, excluding shipping. Consequently, the species texts are longer than for the Danish mirids and additional information To be continued... This is the reaction after read- in terms of dot maps and occurrence are given for ing this book, because it is definitely a follow-up each species. The species photographs are of ex- of the book Danmarks blomstertaeger that was cellent quality and taken of specimens in the wild. published by Apollo Booksellers in 2013 as num- They have been taken by 16 different persons, not ber 12 in the series Denmark’s fauna and re- all of whom are Danes, so probably not all de- viewed in Entomol. Fennica Vol. 25. This new picted specimens are from native populations. book is number 13 in the same series. The struc- Photos of the last nymphal stage are also re- ture of the new bug book is the same as for the produced for almost all species, which is a nice previous one and the photographs take up about addition because many species can easily be bred half of all pages. So, the series is expected to con- to adult from this stage. Macrophotos for compar- tinue. isons of morphological details also help the This book covers the superfamilies Pentato- reader distinguish between species that might be moidea, Coreoidea and Pyrrhocoroidea of the confused. true bugs (, ) which con- The book ends with a photographic gallery of tain the largest and most colourful bugs of Den- all species in a mounted state that helps habitual mark. These are also excellent targets for begin- differentiation between closely similar species. ners in collecting bugs, whether the collecting is All in all, a nice book for amateur hemiptero- traditional or with photographs. logists! The photos serve a larger public, the text The text chapters deal with the historical (in Danish), unfortunately, only the readers background of Danish bug literature, evolution- speaking Scandinavian languages. ary history of bugs, their systematics and nomen- clature, morphology, life cycles, food, enemies Guy Söderman and defense mechanisms, habitats, conservation Finnish Expert Group on Hemiptera