Atlas of Butterflies and Diurnal Moths in the Monsoon Tropics of Northern Australia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (462 pages)
Intro -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Maps -- Plates -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- 5. Swallowtails (Papilionidae) -- 6. Skippers (Hesperiidae) -- 7. Whites and yellows (Pieridae) -- 8. Nymphs (Nymphalidae) -- 9. Blues (Lycaenidae) -- 10. Day-flying moths (Sesiidae, Castniidae, Zygaenidae, Immidae, Geometridae, Uraniidae, Erebidae and Noctuidae) -- Addendum -- Appendix I: List of larval food plants -- Appendix II: Conservation status evaluation for taxa with small geographic range sizes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Northern Australia is one of few tropical places left on Earth in which biodiversity is still relatively intact. However, scientific knowledge of that biodiversity is still in its infancy and the region remains a frontier for biological discovery. The butterfly and diurnal moth assemblages of the area exemplify these points.