member of TAXACOM, new CD ROM on Saturniidae & Sphingidae of Nicaragua

[Jean-Michel Maes]

Para : member of TAXACOM
e-mail : TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
Pa?s : USA

The Entomological Museum of Le?n, Nicaragua, is publishing a new CD ROM :
SPHINGIDAE & SATURNIIDAE  DE  NICARAGUA (spanish version)
Result of a collaboration between Jean-Michel MAES (Nicaragua), Pierre SCHMIT (France), Michel LAGUERRE (France) and Chris CONLAN (USA).

The CD ROM presents the species of Sphingidae and Saturniidae, generally big sized moth, reported from Nicaragua.

Sphingidae : 119 species, 49 of them are new report for the nicaraguan fauna. 40 exotic species, from the collections of Entomological Museum of Le?n are also illustrated. This work is based for the Sphingidae part, on a total of  2649 specimens.

Saturniidae : 94 species, 24 of them are new report for the nicaraguan fauna. 35 exotic species, from the collections of Entomological Museum of Le?n are also illustrated. This work is based for the Saturniidae part, on a total of  1464 specimens.

Each species is illustrated with color pictures, and for many Saturniidae, color pictures of caterpillars are given by Chris Conlan. Caterpillars of Saturniidae are urticants.

For each species, basic information is provide : actual scientific name, synonyms, nicaraguan mentions in litterature, general distribution, host plants, natural enemies, list of the studied specimens or specimens mentioned in litterature, color pictures, bibliographical references used.

The CD ROM, and the precedent titles, are working on Windows base and there is no need of special program, the CD ROM run as a web page.

Precedent titles :
?	BUTTERFLIES OF NICARAGUA (spanish version).
?	INSECTS ASOCIATED WITH CROPS IN HUMID TROPICS OF NICARAGUA (spanish version).
?	LUCANIDAE OF THAILAND (english version).

Price of each CD ROM :
20 US $ + 5 US $ (postage).

To pay by check on a US bank to :
Jean-Michel MAES
A.P. 527
Le?n
Nicaragua

The CD ROM could be obtain also in the following libraries :

Entomopraxis : Tomas Yelamos (Spain).
E- mail : entomopraxis at entomopraxis.com

APOLLO Books (Denmark).
E-mail : apollobooks at vip.cybercity.dk

NHBS Bookstore (United Kingdom).
E-mail : sales at nhbs.co.uk

Shinja Kawai (Japan).
E-mail : kawai at kawamo.co.jp
E-mail : shinja at kawamo.co.jp

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A.P. 527 (Do not use DHL or similar)
Le?n
Nicaragua

tel. 505-0-311-6586
fax. 505-0-311-0126

www.insectariumvirtual.com/termitero/nicaragua/MEL HOME PAGE.htm (Home page)
www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/honduintro.htm (Scarabaeidae)
www.windsofkansas.com/nicaragua.html (Odonata)
www.geocities.com/krislinde/pdf/JMMAES.pdf (bibliografia)