''Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects'' is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information. The series also includes several Check Lists of British Insects. All books contain line drawings, with the most recent volumes including colour photographs. In recent years, new volumes in the series have been published by

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Full list of titles

Vol : 1 - Small Orders

Vol : 2 - Hemiptera

Vol : 4 - Coleoptera

Vol : 5 - Coleoptera

Vol : 6 - Hymenoptera

Vol : 7 - Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea

Vol : 8 - Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea, Chalcidoidea & Proctotrupoidea

Vol : 9 - Diptera: Nematocera & Brachycera

Vol : 10 - Diptera: Cyclorrhapha

Vol : 11 & 12 - Checklists of British Insects

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Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order (biology), order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, Reduviidae, assassin bugs, Cimex, bed bugs, and shield bugs. ...

, , Vol 11 Pt 1 , 1964 , Kloet, G.S.; Hincks, W.D. , xv, 119 , - , Checklist:

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

, , Vol 11 Pt 2 , 1972 , Kloet, G.S.; Hincks, W.D , viii, 153 , - , Checklist:

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

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Strepsiptera The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species. They are endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Females of most species never ...

, , Vol 11 Pt 3 , 1977 , Pope, R.D , xiv, 105 , - , Checklist: Hymenoptera , , Vol 11 Pt 4 , 1978 , Kloet, G.S.; Hincks, W.D.; Fitton, M.G. et al. , x, 159. , - , Checklist: Diptera &

Siphonaptera Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult fleas grow to about long, ar ...

, , Vol 11 Pt 5 , 1976 , Kloet, G.S.; Hincks, W.D. , ix, 139 , - , Checklist: Diptera , , Vol 12 Pt 1 , 1998 , Chandler, Peter J. , 234 , - , The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland: Part 5. Scaphidiinae, Piestinae, Oxytelinae , , Vol 12 Pt 5 , 2009 , Lott, Derek A. , 100 , - , Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles , , Vol 12 Pt 6 , 2013 , Agassiz, David JL. Beavan, Stella D & Heckford, Robert J , 206 , - , The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland: Parts 7 and 8. Oxyporinae, Steninae, Euaesthetinae, Pseudopsinae, Paederinae, Staphylininae , , Vol 12 Pt 7-8 , 2011 , Lott, Derek A. , 340 , -

External links

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