This little work is entitled “Lepidopterous Fauna of
the USSR and Adjacent Countries” and is dedicated to the memory of Professor
Alexsandr Sergeevich Danilevskii, apparently some kind of stalwart of Soviet
entomology. Edited by O L Kryzhanovskii, this gedenkschrift was originally
published in Leningrad in 1973. The English translation, dated 1988, was
financed by the U.S. National Science Foundation and published in New Delhi,
India. Humorously, the American editor constantly refers to the Soviet Union as
“Russia” in true blue Cold War style!
If you're interested in hyper-obscure subjects such as the phylogenetic relationships in the family Tortricidae based on studies of the functional morphology of the genital organs, or leaf-rollers of the southern part of the Soviet Far East and their seasonal cycles, or even the case moths of the Kyzyl-Kum desert, this may be just what you have been searching for all these years. If you're more interested in, say, the phylogenetic relationships of case moths of the northern part of the Far East, I'm afraid you will have to look elsewhere…
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