| Reviews |
| - 'This book should be as indispensable to students as to amateur entomologists, ecologists, and nature enthusiasts ... It is to be hoped that this excellent value reference book will achieve a wide circulation.' - Galathea 2001
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| Description | | - A short, accessible, entomology primer
- A systematic treatment of the orders, with each order on a new page with a large clear diagram, with key features of the order listed, along with life-history and biology details
- Covers the essentials of insect evolution, biology, and structure
- Includes the most modern theories, for instance on the evolution of insect flight
- Richard Lewington's pencil drawings, one for each order, are magnificent
| An up-to-date order-by-order introduction and reference handbook for students of biological sciences in general and entomology in particular. Covers all the important groups on a worldwide basis.
A concise guide to the insect orders and to what makes insects special and successful.
The book is in three sections:
* a straightforward introduction to insect biology;
* a section on
field work; and
* an order-by-order catalogue of the insects giving essential facts and details of life-histories, highlighting what makes each order distinct
To make the material as accessible as possible, the information for each order is presented in a standard manner. Throughout, the book is written in a straighforward style with as little technical language as possible. Essential terms
are fully explained in context with marginal notes.
Includes a pictoral aid the identification of the orders and key references.
Contains specially commissioned illustrations by RICHARD LEWINGTON.
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Readership: Biological sciences undergraduates; ecologists; naturalists; anyone whose work touches on insects; amateur entomologists.
| Contents |
Preface
INTRODUCTION TO INSECT EVOLUTION AND BIOLOGY
The evolution of the arthropods
Five factors in a winning formula
Insect structure
KEY TO THE INSECT ORDERS
THE INSECT ORDERS
The primitively wingless insects
Archaeognatha
Thysanura
The winged insects
Ephemeroptera
Odonata
Neoptera
Plecoptera
Blattodea
Isoptera
Mantodea
Grylloblattodea
Dermaptera
Orthoptera
Phasmatodea
Embioptera
Zoraptera
Psocoptera
Phthiraptera
Hemiptera
Thysanoptera
Megaloptera
Raphidioptera
Neuroptera
Coleoptera
Strepsiptera
Mecoptera
Siphonaptera
Diptera
Tichoptera
Hymenoptera
FIELD WORK
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
George C. McGavin, Lecturer in Biological and Human Sciences, Jesus College, Oxford, and Curator of Entomology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Illustrations by Richard Lewington
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