Moths of Australia
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1990
709 pages
978-0-643-10122-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first comprehensive, reliable, well-illustrated book covering the enormous diversity of Australian moths, summarising our knowledge of them by the acknowledged experts in the field. The text includes nomenclature and a wealth of information on distribution, larval food plants, and the fascinating behaviour of these often colourful insects. There are authoritative accounts of moth structure, their life history, biology, population control, economic significance, evolution and geographical distribution. Additional features include a section on collecting and studying moths, a glossary, a detailed index and an extensive list of references.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE MOTHS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT
- 1 Structure and Life History
- Egg
- Larva
- Head
- Thorax
- Abdomen
- Chaetotaxy
- Internal anatomy
- Pupa
- Adult
- Head
- Thorax
- Abdomen
- 2 Biology
- Larva
- Larval feeding habits
- Host selection
- Host range
- Larval development
- Nutrition and growth
- Moulting and number of instars
- Larval activity and gregariousness
- Silk production and cocoon construction
- Sensory perception in larvae
- Larval adaptations for surviva
- Pupa
- Movement in pupae
- Adult
- Adult eclosion
- Feeding habits of adults
- Adult activity
- Heat regulation
- Dispersal and migration
- Reproductive development
- Sexual behaviour
- Host selection and oviposition
- Sensory perception in adults
- Sound production
- Adult adaptations for survival
- 3 Population Control
- Parasitization
- Predation
- Biological control of moth pests
- 4 Economic Significance
- Harmful moths and caterpillars
- Species damaging plants
- Species damaging stored foods, fibres and beeswax
- Species of medical significance
- Beneficial moths and caterpillars
- Biological control of weeds
- 5 Evolution and Geographical Distribution
- Gondwana
- The fossil record
- Evolutionary origins of Australian Lepidoptera
- Homoneurous moths
- Heteroneurous moths
- 6 The Family Classification of Moths
- PART TWO THE AUSTRALIAN MOTH FAUNA
- Section I HOMONEUROUS MONOTRYSIAN MOTHS
- Zeugloptera
- 1 Micropterigoidea
- Aglossata
- 2 Agathiphagoidea
- Glossata
- 3 Lophocoronoidea
- Section II HOMONEUROUS EXOPORIAN MOTHS Exoporia
- 4 Hepialoidea
- Section III HETERONEUROUS MONOTRYSIAN MOTHS
- Heteroneura
- 5 Nepticuloidea
- 6 Incurvarioidea
- 7 Palaephatoidea
- Section IV HETERONEUROUS DITRYSIAN MOTHS Ditrysia
- 8 Tineoidea
- 9 Yponomeutoidea
- 10 Gelechioidea
- 11 Cossoidea
- 12 Tortricoidea
- 13 Castnioidea
- 14 Sesioidea
- 15 Zygaenoidea
- 16 Immoidea
- 17 Copromorphoidea
- 18 Epermenioidea
- 19 Alucitoidea
- 20 Pterophoroidea
- 21 Hyblaeoidea
- 22 Thyridoidea
- 23 Pyraloidea
- 24 Geometroidea
- 25 Drepanoidea
- 26 Uranioidea
- 27 Bombycoidea
- 28 Sphingoidea
- 29 Noctuoidea
- APPENDIX A Collection and Study
- APPENDIX B Food Plant and Larval Host List
- References
- Glossary
- Index
