Lang’s Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous) Credit Alex Perry
Lang’s Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous) Credit Alex Perry
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Cover of Pimpline Ichneumon-Flies, RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 7, Part 1

Hymenoptera – Ichneumonoidea (Pimplinae)

Cover of Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their relatives (Coloptera: Dermestidiae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derodontidae). Figures index. RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 5, Part 3 (Figures)

Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their relatives (Coleoptera: Dermestidiae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derodontidae). Figures index.

Cover of Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their relatives (Coloptera: Dermestidiae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derodontidae). RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 5, Part 3

Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their relatives (Coloptera: Dermestidiae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derodontidae). Main text

Cover of Cicadellidae (Typhlocybinae) with a checklist of the British Auchenorhyncha (Hemiptera, Homoptera)e, RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 2, Part 2c

Cicadellidae (Typhlocybinae) with a checklist of the British Auchenorhyncha (Hemiptera, Homoptera)

Cover of Coleoptera. Coccinellidae & Sphindidae. RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 5, Part 7

Coleoptera – Coccinellidae & Sphindidae.

Cover of Coleoptera. Heteroceridae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 5, Part 2c

Coleoptera – Heteroceridae.

Cover of Coleoptera. Tenebrionidae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 5, Part 10

Coleoptera – Tenebrionidae.

Cover of Coleoptera. (Lagriidae, Aleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Salpingidae, Pythidae, Mycteridae, Oedemeridae, Mordellidae, Scraptiidae, Pyrochroidae, Rhipiphoridae, Anthicidae, Aderidae And Meloidae) RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 5, Part 9

Coleoptera (Lagriidae, Aleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Salpingidae, Pythidae, Mycteridae, Oedemeridae, Mordellidae, Scraptiidae, Pyrochroidae, Rhipiphoridae, Anthicidae, Aderidae And Meloidae)

Cover of Coleoptera (Pselaphidae) RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 4, Part 9

Coleoptera (Pselaphidae).

Cover of Coleoptera, Introduction and keys to families, RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 4, Part 1

Coleoptera, Introduction and keys to families