Coleoptera: Coccinellidae (col. Fauna Iberica, vol. 40), by Santos Eizaguirre. Hardback. Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2015, 514 pp.

While this volume is written in Spanish, except the scientific names which are in Latin, I believe that biodiversity is also “language” (see Pimm 2000). Most representatives of the Coleoptera family to which this work of the “Fauna Ibérica” Series devotes its attention are commonly known by the Portuguese public as “joaninhas” and in Anglo-Saxon culture as “ladybugs” or “ladybirds”. As the author of this work says, this group of beetles is one of the few exceptions in terms of the sympathy that the people in general have for insects. […]. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion