[Taxacom] Request for some info from Grimaldi & Engel, Evolution of the Insects

[Tony Rees]

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Regards to all - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 15:08, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Taxacomers,
>
> I note that in Zhang et al.'s 2011 "Animal Biodiversity" compilation, in
> the paper on Lepidoptera by van Nieukerken et al., the group of unassigned
> fossil Lepidoptera is listed as containing 6 named genera plus a further 6
> (?) genera as listed in:
>
> " "homoneurous" (or probably homoneurous) lepidopteran genera not
> certainly placed to family (taxa listed in Table 13.1 [1, 3-6] of Grimaldi
> & Engel "
>
> This is a reference to Grimaldi & Engel's large volume "Evolution of the
> Insects" of which I formerly had a copy on my institution shelf, now
> unfortunately no longer the case...
>
> In order to see what the relevant genus names are, I need access to at
> least the start of Table 13.1 ("Significant Lepidopteran Fossils", on p.
> 559 it seems) in that work. If anyone would be able to send me a scan of
> the table in question (or at least the relevant portion of the same), it
> would be much appreciated. The work is available on Google Books, but p.
> 559 is not accessible via that route.
>
> Thanks in advance - Tony
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
> www.irmng.org
>