The Black Flies Simuliidae of North America

by Adler, Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9780801424984
• ISBN10: 0801424984
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

A ROM Publication in Science A Comstock Book Published in association with the Royal Ontario Museum There is much more to black flies than you can learn in the woods on a warm spring day. This book compiles the authors' previously unpublished research and nearly all of the published information on North American black flies. All aspects of black flies are treated within the context of a worldwide perspective, including natural history and ecology, cytology and morphology, phylogeny and classification, economic impact, pest management, natural enemies, history of research, study methods, and identification. Each of the 254 species known from the continent north of Mexico, including 43 new species, is treated in detail. Each species account summarizes all pertinent information on taxonomy, morphology, cytology, physiology, molecular systematics, and bionomics. The book is copiously illustrated with more than 1,100 figures, including color drawings of larvae and adult thoraxes, by some of the world's foremost scientific illustrators. Additional figures and photographs show chromosomal and morphological features, portraits of important researchers, control efforts, natural enemies, oviposition behavior, and cladograms. Detailed distribution maps show the range of each species. A Comstock Book published in Association with the Royal Ontario Museum

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
PART I. BACKGROUND
Overview	3	(4)
History of Research	7	(18)
Techniques for Collection, Preparation, and Curation	25	(8)
PART II. BIOLOGY
Structure and Function	33	(27)
Cytology	60	(11)
Behavior and Ecology	71	(28)
PART III. ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Social and Economic Impact	99	(10)
Management	109	(16)
PART IV. SYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY
Phylogeny and Classification of Holarctic Black Flies	125	(37)
Synoptic List, Identification Keys, and Taxonomic Accounts of North American Black Flies	162	(691)
Synoptic List	162	(6)
Identification Keys	168	(64)
Taxonomic Accounts	232	(204)
Illustrations	436	(417)
Females	439	(40)
Males	479	(46)
Pupae	525	(36)
Larvae	561	(36)
Distribution Maps	597	(256)
References	853	(58)
Figure Credits	911	(2)
Index to Names of Black Flies	913	(10)
Index to Names of Organisms Other Than Black Flies	923	(6)
Subject Index	929	(10)
About the Authors	939	(2)
About the Artists	941