Having received such lavish praise for the first volume of his definitive taxonomic handbook, Daniel Otte now turns his attention to the bandwing grasshoppers. As before, the book includes:

* highly detailed, full-color drawings of all species, including more than one color phase when appropriate;
* illustrated keys and lists of principal recognition features;
* information on distributional limits, habitat preferences, ecology, behavior, and life cycle;
* excellent point-distribution maps;
* pertinent references, taxonomic index, history of name changes, and an...