Having received such lavish praise for the first volume of his definitive taxonomic handbook, Daniel Otte now turns his attention to the bandwing grasshoppers. As before, the book includes:
- Highly detailed, full-color drawings of all species, including more than one color phase when appropriate;
- Illustrated keys and lists of principal recognition features;
- Information on distributional limits, habitat preferences, ecology, behavior, and life cycle;
- Excellent point-distribution maps;
- Pertinent references, taxonomic index, history of name changes, and an explanation of the characters used to derive phylogenies.
Like its predecessor, this volume will be useful to scientists in agriculture, environmental assessment, biogeography, grassland ecology, and insect taxonomy. It will also appeal to amateur naturalists.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Makes the user as confident of grasshopper identifications as he or she would be of bird identifications in using Peterson's Field Guide to the Birds... For North American insect species, this book has no equal. * Science * A beautifully produced book, profusely illustrated... The colour plates are so outstanding that, with some familiarity with the subfamily position, most species can be identified from the illustrations alone... The entire book will undoubtedly act as a spur to advance in the study of physiology, ecology and genetics within groups of related genera. -- N. D. Jago * Entomological News *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
94 maps, 72 line illustrations, 210 color illustrations on a 24-page insert
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-674-62661-4 (9780674626614)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Daniel Otte is Curator and Chair of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Introduction Taxonomic Characters and Variability Communication in Oedipodinae Reproductive Isolation The Subfamily Oedipodinae Key to Genera of Oedipodinae Machaerocera Tropidolophus ARPHIA GENUS GROUP Arphia Leuronotina Totnonotus Lactista CHORTOPHAGA GENUS GROUP Chortophaga Chimarocephala Encoptolophus Shotwellia HIPPISCUS GENUS GROUP Hippiscus Pardalophora Xanthzppus Cratypedes Agyinnastus Stiethippus Leprus Hadrotettix Heliastus Camnula SPHINGONOTUS GENUS GROUP Spharagemon Dissosteira Eximacris Conozoa Microtes Sphingonotus Trimerotropis BRYODEMA GENUS GROUP Circotettix ANCONIA GENUS GROUP Anconia PSINIDIA GENUS GROUP Psinidia Trachyrhachys Hippopedon Met ator Mestobregtna Trepidulus Derotmema Appendix 1. Explanation of Characters Appendix 2. Signal Repertoire of Oedipodinae Appendix 3. Epiphalli and Aedeagi of Palearetic and Nearctic Species of Oedipodinae Appendix 4. Taxonomic Changes Made in This Volume Appendix 5. The Genera of Oedipodinae Appendix 6. The Species of Oedipodinae Appendix 7. Pronunciation of Names References Taxonomic Index
