The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia

Steve Parish Publishing is steadily expanding our Natural History Guide offer with authoritative guides to the most popular species in Australia. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia is another CSIRO title, and an excellent companion volume to The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia.

Günther Theischinger has had a lifelong interest in aquatic insects. He has collected specimens in Australia, Greece, Spain and Australia and published more than 200 scientific papers. In the last few years he has described more than 60 new species and several new genera of Australian dragonflies. Günther has been a visiting scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra, and is a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and a Visiting Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, USA.

John Hawking is an invertebrate ecologist at Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre in New South Wales. He holds numerous workshops on identification of freshwater invertebrates and organized the 3rd International Symposium of Odonatology, which was held in Australia in 2003

Full colour, 215 x 148 mm, 376 pages