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9780195100334

Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195100334

  • ISBN10:

    0195100336

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-03-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Extensively revised and reorganized, the second edition of Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity serves as an ideal text for courses in general entomology with laboratory sections. Written for students who have completed an introductory course in biology, it provides an in-depthtreatment of both the biology of insects and their classification, including keys for identification for over four hundred families. The common insects of North America are discussed as well as species found elsewhere in the world. Parts I and II provide reading material for lectures: Part I: Insects as Organisms, covers morphology, physiology, and behavior, including social behavior. Part II: Insect Ecology, begins with population biology and includes chapters on insects in relation to their environments and pestmanagement. Part III, Insect Diversity, provides source material for the laboratory. The classification of insects, their evolution, and fossil record are discussed first, followed by coverage of each order in terms of general biology and ecology, keys for identification of families, and, in somechapters, discussion of the biologies of families. All insect orders and over four hundred families of insects are treated. This second edition features new chapters on population biology, insects and microbes, pest management, and methods for making an insect collection. It is illustrated with new line drawings by Barbara Boole Daly and many new photographs, including 48 in color, by Edward S. Ross. A unique featurein a text of this kind, these color photographs allow students to witness a variety of life forms and habits that they normally would not have the opportunity to observe in nature.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
PART ONE / INSECTS AS ORGANISMS 1(170)
1. Introduction
3(18)
2. The Insect Body
21(30)
3. The Integument
51(10)
4. Continuity of the Generations: Development and Reproduction
61(27)
5. Maintenance and Movement
88(36)
6. Reception of Stimuli and Integration of Activities
124(29)
7. Social Relationships
153(18)
PART TWO / INSECT ECOLOGY 171(130)
8. Population Biology
173(14)
9. Diversity and Adaptations of Insects in Selected Habitats
187(22)
10. Insects and Vascular Plants
209(18)
11. Entomophagous Insects
227(14)
12. Insects and Vertebrates
241(15)
13. Insects and Microbes
256(20)
14. Pest Management
276(25)
PART THREE / INSECT DIVERSITY 301(312)
15. An Evolutionary Perspective of the Insecta
303(23)
16. Key to the Classes and Orders of Common Hexapodous Arthropods
326(7)
17. The Parainsecta: Collembola and Protura
333(5)
18. The Entognatha: Diplura
338(3)
19. The Apterygota: Archeognatha and Thysanura
341(4)
20. Ephemeroptera
345(10)
21. Odonata
355(7)
22. Blattodea
362(5)
23. Mantodea
367(3)
24. Isoptera
370(7)
25. Grylloblattodea
377(2)
26. Dermaptera
379(4)
27. Plecoptera
383(6)
28. Embiidina
389(3)
29. Orthoptera
392(6)
30. Phasmatodea
398(3)
31. Zoraptera
401(3)
32. Psocoptera
404(3)
33. Phthiraptera
407(5)
34. Hemiptera
412(24)
35. Thysanoptera
436(5)
36. Megaloptera
441(4)
37. Raphidioptera
445(2)
38. Neuroptera
447(7)
39. Coleoptera
454(30)
40. Strepsiptera
484(5)
41. Mecoptera
489(4)
42. Diptera
493(31)
43. Siphonaptera
524(5)
44. Lepidoptera
529(30)
45. Trichoptera
559(11)
46. Hymenoptera
570(31)
47. Collection and Preservation
601(12)
Glossary 613(18)
References Cited 631(33)
Indexes 664
Taxonomic Index 664(10)
Subject Index 674

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