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08.02.2009 17:24, PG18

1. Gorbunov P. Yu., Olshvang V. N. Beetles of the Middle Urals. Reference guide. Yekaterinburg: "Socrates" Publ., 2008. 384 p. 434 col.fig. Format 110 x 200 - price 420 rubles. Inf. available here: http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/midurbug.htm

2. Gorbunov P. Yu., Olshvang V. N. Butterflies of the Middle Urals. Reference guide. Yekaterinburg: "Socrates" Publ., 2007. 352 p. 445 c.fig. Format 110 x 200 - price 300 rubles.

3. Gorbunov P. Yu., Olshvang V. N. Butterflies of the Southern Urals. Reference guide. Yekaterinburg: "Socrates" Publ., 2008. 416 p. 564 c.fig. Format 110 x 200.
- price 480 rubles.

All printed in Slovakia on coated paper.
They are quite suitable for determining the main types of forest, forest-steppe and steppe (for butterflies). European Russia.

I can send books across Russia by registered parcel after prepayment (by postal transfer). Address: 620023 Ekateriburg, a / z 246 Gorbunov P. Yu.

The above price includes shipping (across Russia) and packaging. There are no books available in Moscow and other (krom E-burga) stores. In stores in Yekaterinburg, the price is higher than indicated (although it does not include shipping, of course).

Contact address (including for more detailed information about publications): pg18@yandex.ru

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09.02.2009 10:44, Yakovlev

Unfortunately, all the book publishers-Thomas Witt, Erich Bauer, Peder Skou, Fibiger, I don't remember the name of the Bulgarian from Pensoft - are howling from pirates. I think Apollo Books is the first one, because they have the most expensive books. It depends on what copies they sell. And if you put them on the Internet, and so distribute...
Now and in the West, people like to take freebies. And the published copies do not diverge. This is a fact. Witt has dozens of copies of his multi-volume work with De Freina.
Literature is very expensive, especially since it comes out a lot.
Availability is limited, but you can exchange for material with publishers and authors. For example, Herman Hacker, I think, is changing quite well, Witt...

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13.02.2009 6:39, taler

Here I have the book "butterflies of Altai, Sayan and Tuva" coming out soon, 5 years of work, 15 years of expeditions, rummaged libraries...
And imagine that someone will post it on the Internet... and imagine my and my co-authors ' reactions. You think it's nice.

Novel !Here's how to view it.A book on the Internet will attract more readers and make the author's name more popular.Naturally, it also depends on how it is written.And the real author needs it(my father is a poet, so I know).If the book is written from commercial views, then ...
Here I personally learned about you from the "Bulavous lepidoptera of the Kurai range", thrown to me by our mutual friend.And now I have the honor to contact you personally.
As for the book "butterflies of Altai, Sayan and Tuva", I will definitely buy it with the condition-autograph on the title page

13.02.2009 18:27, Proctos

Interesting report on a new double species of Leiopus nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Scandinavia. As you can see, without dna barcoding, there is no way to confirm the supposed morphological differences, for example, in the genitals of twin species! Where can a poor Russian entomologist with old-fashioned methods go now?..

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02010p045f.pdf
Two sibling species of Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Europe:
L. nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758) and L. linnei sp. nov.

Abstract
The common European cerambycid Leiopus nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758) is herein split into two sibling species. The male genitalia characters, as well as spermathecae in females, were examined and found to provide strong support for this separation. A new species, Leiopus linnei sp. nov., is based on specimens mainly from Scandinavia. The establishment of the new species is supported by DNA barcoding of Scandinavian specimens of L. nebulosus, L. linnei sp. nov., and L. punctulatus (Paykull, 1800). There are significant genetic differences between all these species. The geographical distribution and the bionomy of L. nebulosus and L. linnei sp. nov. are described. The type of Cerambyx nebulosus Linnaeus, 1758 is lost. A neotype of Cerambyx nebulosus, currently Leiopus nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758), is designated and a redescription of L. nebulosus is presented. A key for the identification of L. nebulosus and L. linnei sp. nov. is provided. The varieties L. nebulosus var. dissimilis Pic, 1889, L. nebulosus var. unifasciatus Pic, 1891, and L. nebulosus var. siculus Pic, 1924 are considered as junior synonyms, syn.nov. of L. nebulosus.

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14.02.2009 5:01, А.Й.Элез

Novel !Here's how to view it.A book on the Internet will attract more readers and make the author's name more popular.Naturally, it also depends on how it is written.And the real author needs it(my father is a poet, so I know).If the book is written from commercial views, then ...
Here I personally learned about you from the "Bulavous lepidoptera of the Kurai range", thrown to me by our mutual friend.And now I have the honor to contact you personally.
As for the book "butterflies of Altai, Sayan and Tuva", I will definitely buy it with the condition-an autograph on the title page

"Look" is better, in my opinion, in this matter, as T. Yakovlev looks. After all, he definitely can't read his work from the stage, he can only earn money by selling his" poetry " in print; so what kind of trouble will he gain from such popularity, in which almost no one needs work in print due to the presence of counterfeit goods on the web? And for popularization for the sake of selling a book, a couple of pages for an example will be enough on the web. I think that researchers should be given something to sell out, otherwise we will lose our face completely, so that we will not be able to restore it with the purchase of one copy. Authors in the current socio-economic conditions should be guaranteed to earn their own honest work, and not rob them of free "popularization", consoling them with a single handout. Sorry, friends, for the tone, but let's be objective. I understand that you don't want to hurt anyone, but think about it carefully. From such popularization, only hands drop and you don't want to work if you later starve to death from work. Our authors are not Gates or even Mikhalkovs. Our authors do not rob anyone of billions in monopolies and do not create fame and wealth for themselves on our taxes (from the budget), they work honestly, and for them our attitude is a cut. The point is not that the book is written "from commercial views" (this is generally not understood): a job is a job (even a favorite one), and bread is bread, you can't live without it. And what kind of disinterested and non-commercial "views" will we use to save our money and tear a person's legitimate piece of bread out of his throat? You just didn't think of it. Just think about it.

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14.02.2009 7:07, А.Й.Элез

But unfortunately the prices of books (especially Apollo book...) just colossal. And for me, for example, with my income, it is simply unrealistic to buy them. And I want to know something! So I'm sorry, but I've been encouraging my colleagues, and I will continue to encourage them. I don't see any other way out

Perhaps my income is even lower. Not only can I not buy the books of this publishing house. But I would not "incite" them. If you don't have enough money, don't build a dacha. And such books do not belong to the number of basic necessities. From need, as the classic said, they steal a roll from the counter, and do not break into a secretaire in someone else's house.

Of course, the entomologist "wants" these books. There is patience for willing. Or order from the library, even if only with an international subscription from abroad. But financially unsecured " desire "turned into an exclusive driving factor of behavior is the most common social cause of crime, including the so - called"economic" one. Today I want (but there is no money) one, tomorrow - another, the day after tomorrow - the third, and each step is higher than the previous one...

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14.02.2009 7:28, Sergey Didenko

Maybe I'm wrong, then let me be corrected by those authors who have already been published, especially in the last 10 years. I am familiar with some science fiction writers and I know how much the author earns on the book (not the coolest of course, but just average) with a circulation of say 30,000 copies. I will say directly - not much. And writing entomological books in order to earn money is about the same as sailing on a non-motorized rubber boat against the current: it is, of course, possible and so to swim, and sometimes even to swim where it is necessary, but... In general, I agree with Pavel - the book should first of all be aimed at the image and popularity of the author.
Although I prefer to have all the interesting and well-written books in print. But ideally, you download it first, determine whether it is needed or not, and depending on this, buy a printed copy.

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14.02.2009 7:40, А.Й.Элез

Maybe I'm wrong, then let me be corrected by those authors who have already been published, especially in the last 10 years. I am familiar with some science fiction writers and I know how much the author earns on the book (not the coolest of course, but just average) with a circulation of say 30,000 copies. I will say directly - not much. And writing entomological books in order to earn money is about the same as sailing on a non-motorized rubber boat against the current: it is, of course, possible and so to swim, and sometimes even to swim where it is necessary, but... In general, I agree with Pavel - the book should first of all be aimed at the image and popularity of the author.
Although I prefer to have all the interesting and well-written books in print. But ideally, you download it first, determine whether it is needed or not, and depending on this, buy a printed copy.

I personally also prefer to have it in printed form, even when I already have a scan. Therefore, the presence of a scan from me personally would not deprive anyone of a buyer. But most people with the purchase of a scan just lose the incentive to buy the paper version. Today, a huge percentage of the non-old population reads even fiction no longer on paper, but on display, and in the thoughts of not having to buy the same Pushkin on paper (and it seems much cheaper than an entomological atlas). What for? You can also pass the exam using the computer version.

That is why (and not because it is for their own benefit) authors do not like counterfeit scans of their work. That's why they put a copyright, not a request for the distribution of scans. I would not impose such a dubious advertising service on authors as distributing scans against their wishes, and especially when the author's print run is still not fully sold. The main thing, in my opinion, is not to rob the author under good slogans; and the author will somehow take care of his "image and popularity" without such "help".

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15.02.2009 21:36, Sergey Didenko

Well, against the author's wishes, the scan should not be displayed. But there are several situations that arise here:
1 - The author's wish is determined, the author is against submitting a scan. Personally, I have respect for such an author, most likely, will not cause. Not his work, which still needs to be studied, but human qualities.
2 - The author's desire is determined, the author has nothing against exposing a scan of his work. There are no questions here at all, most writers do this, just go to the Samizdat website and see for yourself.
3-The author's desire is not defined, the most difficult situation, especially if you are not familiar with the author. In this situation, everyone decides for themselves what to do. If you post a scan not for profit, but in the form of helping those who want to study a work that, for one reason or another, is not available in print, why not?
You can take the path of compromise. Now there are a lot of sites from which you can download books for very little money, from which some part goes to the author. Due to the large number of distributed books in electronic form, the author's fee may be higher than for printed products.

16.02.2009 0:09, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Colleagues, it seems to me that you have mixed two different approaches.

1. Scientific publication. A scientific paper is written to be read. The author wants to convey the information to as many interested readers as possible. From this point of view, any distribution option should be welcomed.
For example, I have publications that I don't have the right to share freely. After paying the author a small fee, the copyright holders drive the English-language version for a lot of money. Everyone understood what kind of office I was talking about. I won't make this work freely available, I don't want any trouble, and the fee doesn't bother me. On the other hand, if someone puts such a work in free access, then I will only be happy with such "piracy".

2. Commercial publication. In this case, the authors are interested, at least, to "recapture" the invested money, and at most-to make a profit. In this case, free access is direct sabotage.

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18.02.2009 13:53, А.Й.Элез

Colleagues, it seems to me that you have mixed two different approaches.

1. Scientific publication. A scientific paper is written to be read. The author wants to convey the information to as many interested readers as possible. From this point of view, any distribution option should be welcomed.
For example, I have publications that I don't have the right to share freely. After paying the author a small fee, the copyright holders drive the English-language version for a lot of money. Everyone understood what kind of office I was talking about. I won't make this work freely available, I don't want any trouble, and the fee doesn't bother me. On the other hand, if someone puts such a work in free access, then I will only be happy with such "piracy".

2. Commercial publication. In this case, the authors are interested, at least, to "recapture" the invested money, and at most-to make a profit. In this case, free access is direct sabotage.

I generally agree with both points. I will only add that these two different approaches are really mixed up by life itself, it is easy to separate these approaches in abstraction, but in life it is difficult. My personal experience is not related to entomological publications, but this is not a matter of subject matter, but of principle. Of course, we all want our readers to be as broad as possible, but the Soviet system of author rewards is no longer valid. I remember how a friend of mine who lives in the UK complained in one of her letters to me about twenty-five years ago that she was forced to waste time on "promotion", so that instead of working on the next book, she would drag herself around the country and abroad and present her published book there in person and sometimes even in person to be present at its autograph sale, and expressed a good envy for authors who live in such conditions, where you can focus on scientific work, and not on this commercial nonsense, for which there are special structures. At that time, what she wrote to me about seemed to me (and still seems to me) a wildness, some completely fossil reality, from which we have moved forward for an epoch. Now, alas, the situation in this regard is the same as theirs, except that it is very difficult to feed from scientific publications.

For example, I personally would not object to those publications that I report on at work as planned (and for which, accordingly, I receive a salary) and which are published not at my own expense, to appear on the web (with some publications this happens). But, indeed, the copyright holder (or even not the copyright holder, but the publishing authority) in this case is commercially interested in "recapturing" the money, and I, without losing anything from bringing the text to the network, would have let down the publication or publishing house for a certain amount. That is why many publishers insure against such things by the fact that under a contract with the author, they completely deprive the author - for a period or forever - of the right to continue reproducing (at least more or less complete) the work that they publish without their permission.

If the author publishes at his own commercial peril and risk, especially according to the data that he received not thanks to grants or other external funding, but on his own enthusiasm, then everything goes as you said in the second paragraph. But this does not mean that such an author is not interested in the reader. His work, no less than the one you have in the first paragraph, is written to be read, and the author of it also " wants to convey information to the largest possible circle of interested readers." But at the same time, it will not" welcome any distribution option". He needs readers, but he's not a cash cow. Therefore, let the reader "want"something a little bit. If I have written a book and I want someone to read it, and that someone doesn't want to read it, then it will cost me a lot to be popular with such an audience and play a one-sided game. If not only I want to write a book for the readers, but also the readers want to read it, then let them fork out for their desire, and not turn their desire to read into trouble for the author. You need to want at your own expense. The author has done his work in good faith for the reader, and let the reader do his work in good faith for the author. Today, authors who are really engaged in science cannot afford, despite their desire to expand their audience, to actually pay for each potential reader out of their own pocket (and this, from an economic point of view, is the result of free access to publications), depriving themselves of funds for bread and paper, and for further scientific creativity for the benefit of the same readers.

What I'm saying is that we shouldn't negate the second point, reducing it to the commercial side of the matter, and try to clearly divide the authors into two groups: those who are interested in communicating the idea, and those who want to sell the book. In fact, someone who writes a scientific paper (and not, say, a millionaire's memoir) runs into both problems at the same time.

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Leafhoppers (Hemiptera Cicadellidae) are among the most abundant and diverse insects. 20,000 species have already been described and many remain to be studied. One subfamily, the Cicadellinae often known as the sharpshooter leafhoppers have been monographed by David Young and contains around 2300 species. They are among the largest species and often brightly coloured. This new volume covers the Old World species in full colour (around 600 species) as an Illustrated Checklist based on Young's original monographs and subsequent papers. The first volume also includes an introduction to the Cicadellinae. Around 90% of the world fauna have been imaged so far (and this volume complements a website of the images). Subsequent volumes will cover New World Cicadellini (around 1200 species) and Proconiini (450 species).

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06.03.2009 6:38, Sergey Didenko

Sorry for the offtop...
Who has a new Catalog of Russian Lepidoptera? Would it be difficult to provide the distribution regions indicated for several moth species?
Xanthorhoe quadrifasciata (Clerck, 1759)
Eupithecia schiefereri Bohatsch, 1893
E. pernotata Guenee, 1857
E. suboxydata Staudinger, ????
Limeria macraria Staudinger, 1892
Scopula ochraceata (Staudinger, 1901)
S. trigeminata (Haworth, 1809)

Xanthorhoe quadrifasciata-recorded as Ochyria quadrifasciata-almost all over the Russian Federation
schiefereri-11,13(Volga-Don and Lower Volga region)
pernotata-9,10,11,17,20 and further in the south of the Russian Federation (Central-Chernozem, North-Volga, Volga-Don and further in the south of the Russian Federation to Primorye)
suboxydata-11,16,17 and further in the south of the Russian Federation(Volga-Don, S-Ural, S-Ural and further south to Primorye)
Limeria macraria-11,17 (East-West and South-Ural)
S. trigeminata-9,13,14 (Central-chernozem, Western-Caucasian, Eastern-Caucasian)

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12.05.2009 7:57, Coelioxys

A few days ago, a new book dedicated to the babachkas of Primorye is being published by the printing house. Author: Yu. A. Chistyakov, Senior Researcher, lab. Entomology of the Institute of Biology and Soil Science of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Vladivostok).
The album is 120 pages long and includes photos of 150 species of butterflies in Primorsky Krai.
The price for such a publication is quite democratic - 400 rubles + 100 rubles postage in Russia (postage abroad is correspondingly different).
The method of purchase is an electronic postal transfer or delivery service to Vladivostok. Other forms of transfer (cash on delivery, bank account, etc.) are not suitable. It takes 10-14 days from the moment of sending the transfer to receiving the book. All details are provided by maxim@ibss.dvo.ru

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15.05.2009 9:51, Dmitrii Musolin

A book has been published:

Meshkova V. L. Seasonal development of coniferous insects.
Kharkiv: Planeta-print Publ., 2009, 382 p. [123 figures, 80 tables, bibl. 303]

Periodic phenomena in the life of inanimate and living nature,
the connection with them of seasonal development of insects and outbreaks of their mass
reproduction are considered. Methodological issues related to
the determination of insect development thresholds, the sum of effective and active
temperatures, the use of phenological curves and grids of heat
resources (Podolsky method) for comparing different populations,
predicting seasonal development of insects,taking into account differences
in microclimate and the possible impact of global climate changes are considered.
Methodological approaches to forecasting the seasonal development
of coniferous insects, determining the areas and boundaries
of potential foci using forest management materials and
GIS technologies are proposed. Methods of implementing
strategic, tactical and operational forecasting
of mass reproduction of coniferous insects are formulated. Special attention
is paid to the possible impact of global climate change on
coniferous insects in the forests of Ukraine.
For researchers, students, postgraduates, teachers,
specialists in forestry, forest protection, plant protection,
biologists, ecologists.

The introduction, table of contents and conclusion are presented on the website http://uriffm.org.ua

You can order the book by e-mail:
valentynameshkova<at>gmail.com
phone number: (+380) -57-7078059. Meshkova Valentina Lvovna.

The cost of the book is 80 UAH., 250 Russian rubles, 10 US pupaars.

The book can be sent by mail after funds are transferred to a bank account in Ukraine or Russia (details can be sent by email).

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