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Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity

ISBN: 9780195100334 | 0195100336
Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/19/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
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 m... MORE
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Prefacevii
PART ONE / INSECTS AS ORGANISMS1(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 ECOLOGY171(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 DIVERSITY301(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)
Glossary613(18)
References Cited631(33)
Indexes664
Taxonomic Index664(10)
Subject Index674

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