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Atlas of the Most Common Xylophagous Insects

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This chapter is an atlas. Following the identification of insect tracks, the user will find information on the identified species as well as photographs and their descriptions. The atlas is presented by family in alphabetical order. The bioecology of each family is described with a table of possible species. Then, an individual descriptive sheet of each species is illustrated by as a series of photographs of the galleries and frass and faecal pellets. These photographs are intended to be compared with the user’s samples so that he can confirm or not his identification.

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Toriti, M., Durand, A., Fohrer, F. (2021). Atlas of the Most Common Xylophagous Insects. In: Traces of Common Xylophagous Insects in Wood . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66391-9_3

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