Emperor Moths of South and South-Central Africa - Elliot Pinhey

Documents these showy and colorful moths that are widespread on the African bush veld

Elliot Pinhey published almost 200 names for species, subspecies and forms of Odonata in thirty-three years, from 1950 to 1982.

He named more than a tenth of known Afrotropical species, making him the most prolific author of that fauna aside from his predecessor, Frederic Fraser (Dijkstra et al. 2003).

Sixty-three percent of his primary types are held in the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo (NMBZ), where he worked from 1955 to 1980. His legacy is one of the major collections of African Odonata in the world and the most important one in the continent itself (Vick et al. 2001). There are 112 name-bearing types designated by Pinhey,

Hardcover. English. Struik. 1972. 150 pp with black & white and colour plates and drawings. Good condition , hardcover