Includes keys to generic level, notes on the diversity and representation of each genus, and comments on the faunal relationships within the region. Each of the twelve families is defined, and information on biology and any economic importance summarised. Includes a regional checklist of all species recorded from Malesia and nearby areas, with original references to descriptions of all taxa.
Andrei A. Orlov, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, and Ph.D. (2003) in Theology, Marquette University, is an Assistant Professor of Christian Origins at Marquette University. He has published extensively on the Old Testament pseudepigrapha including The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Mohr-Siebeck, 2005).