Evolution of the Insects

✍ Scribed by David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 770
Series: Cambridge Evolution Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
Title: Evolution of the Insects......Page 4
ISBN 0521821495......Page 5
3. Arthropods and the Origin of Insects 93......Page 8
7. Polyneoptera 188......Page 9
11. Hymenoptera: Ants, Bees, and Other Wasps 407......Page 10
15. Epilogue 646......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 12
COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
SPECIES: THEIR NATURE AND NUMBER......Page 21
RECONSTRUCTING EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY......Page 30
INSECT FOSSILIZATION......Page 57
DATING AND AGES......Page 77
MAJOR FOSSIL INSECT DEPOSITS......Page 80
3 Arthropods and the Origin of Insects......Page 108
ONYCHOPHORA: THE VELVET WORMS......Page 109
TARDIGRADA: THE WATER BEARS......Page 111
ARTHROPODA: THE JOINTED ANIMALS......Page 112
HEXAPODA: THE SIX-LEGGED ARTHROPODS......Page 126
MORPHOLOGY OF INSECTS......Page 134
RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE INSECT ORDERS......Page 152
ARCHAEOGNATHA: THE BRISTLETAILS......Page 163
ZYGENTOMA: THE SILVERFISH......Page 165
6 Insects Take to the Skies......Page 170
EPHEMEROPTERA: THE MAYFLIES......Page 175
METAPTERYGOTA......Page 181
PALAEODICTYOPTERIDA: EXTINCT BEAKED INSECTS......Page 183
ODONATOPTERA: DRAGONFLIES AND EARLY RELATIVES......Page 188
NEOPTERA......Page 203
WHAT ARE POLYNEOPTERA?......Page 204
PLECOPTERA: THE STONEFLIES......Page 209
EMBIODEA1: THE WEBSPINNERS......Page 211
ZORAPTERA: THE ZORAPTERANS......Page 214
ORTHOPTERA: THE CRICKETS, KATYDIDS, GRASSHOPPERS, WETAS, AND KIN......Page 217
PHASMATODEA2: THE STICK AND LEAF INSECTS......Page 226
TITANOPTERA: THE TITANIC CRAWLERS......Page 230
DERMAPTERA: THE EARWIGS......Page 232
GRYLLOBLATTODEA: THE ICE CRAWLERS......Page 237
MANTOPHASMATODEA: THE AFRICAN ROCK CRAWLERS......Page 239
DICTYOPTERA......Page 242
PSOCOPTERA: THE BARK LICE......Page 276
PHTHIRAPTERA: THE TRUE LICE......Page 287
FRINGE WINGS: THYSANOPTERA (THRIPS)......Page 295
THE SUCKING INSECTS: HEMIPTERA......Page 302
PROBLEMATIC FOSSIL ORDERS......Page 346
THE ORIGINS OF COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS......Page 348
ON WINGS OF LACE: NEUROPTERIDA......Page 350
10 Coleoptera and Strepsiptera......Page 372
EARLY FOSSILS AND OVERVIEW OF PAST DIVERSITY......Page 375
ARCHOSTEMATA......Page 378
ADEPHAGA......Page 381
MYXOPHAGA......Page 385
POLYPHAGA......Page 386
STREPSIPTERA: THE ENIGMATIC ORDER......Page 414
11 Hymenoptera: Ants, Bees, and Other Wasps......Page 422
THE EUHYMENOPTERA AND PARASITISM......Page 428
ACULEATA......Page 444
EVOLUTION OF INSECT SOCIALITY......Page 479
ANTLIOPHORA: THE SCORPIONFLIES, TRUE FLIES, AND FLEAS......Page 483
MECOPTERIDA: MECOPTERANS AND SIPHONAPTERA......Page 485
DIPTERA: THE TRUE FLIES......Page 506
TRICHOPTERA: THE CADDISFLIES......Page 563
LEPIDOPTERA: THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES......Page 570
THE CRETACEOUS......Page 622
THE TERTIARY......Page 652
WHY SO MANY INSECT SPECIES?......Page 661
THE FUTURE......Page 662
GLOSSARY......Page 666
REFERENCES......Page 677
A......Page 748
B......Page 750
C......Page 751
D......Page 753
E......Page 754
F,G......Page 756
H......Page 757
K......Page 758
L......Page 759
M......Page 760
O......Page 762
P......Page 763
S......Page 766
T......Page 768
Y,Z......Page 770

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