Le guide des papillons du Québec (version scientifique)

⚠️ This book is written in French.

Nearly 50 years of study of the Lepidoptera of Quebec, a collection of more than 60,000 specimens, impressive bibliographic resources and a network of enthusiastic specialists and amateurs make Louis Handfield an authority on the butterflies and moths of Quebec. His book, published in 1999 by Éditions Broquet — the first comprehensive French-language guide to the Lepidoptera of Quebec and Labrador — became essential not only for amateurs and specialists in Canada, but also for researchers in countries as distant as China and Finland. A new edition was imperative to reflect the more thorough exploration of Quebec territory carried out with the help of many amateurs, as well as the scientific knowledge acquired since 1999, notably through DNA analysis. The new (MONA) classification for several families, proposed by Drs. J. Donald Lafontaine and B. Christian Schmidt of the National Collection in Ottawa, is also brought to the fore. This guide catalogues 1,521 species (71 more than the previous guide), and 2,443 specimens are illustrated in entirely new plates produced by Daniel Handfield.