Author: Karl Roy Valley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sciomyzidae
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies
Author: Lloyd Knutson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521867851
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Written for academic researchers and graduate students in entomology, this is the first comprehensive analysis of Sciomyzid flies. Sciomyzid flies are important as prime candidates for the biological control of snails and slugs that help transmit diseases such as schistosomiasis or are important agricultural pests. They also serve as a paradigm for the study of the evolution of feeding behavior in predatory insects. Starting with analyses of malacophagy in general and then in Diptera specifically, all important aspects of the Sciomyzidae are discussed, including behavior, ecology, life cycles, morphology, and identification. New behavioral and morphological classifications and hypotheses are proposed on the basis of unpublished information and a complete analysis of the extensive literature. Also included are keys to adults, larvae and puparia and a checklist of world species, with information on geographical range and the location of type specimens. The accompanying DVD includes Clifford O. Berg's classic film on the biology of Sciomyzidae and biological control of snails.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521867851
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Written for academic researchers and graduate students in entomology, this is the first comprehensive analysis of Sciomyzid flies. Sciomyzid flies are important as prime candidates for the biological control of snails and slugs that help transmit diseases such as schistosomiasis or are important agricultural pests. They also serve as a paradigm for the study of the evolution of feeding behavior in predatory insects. Starting with analyses of malacophagy in general and then in Diptera specifically, all important aspects of the Sciomyzidae are discussed, including behavior, ecology, life cycles, morphology, and identification. New behavioral and morphological classifications and hypotheses are proposed on the basis of unpublished information and a complete analysis of the extensive literature. Also included are keys to adults, larvae and puparia and a checklist of world species, with information on geographical range and the location of type specimens. The accompanying DVD includes Clifford O. Berg's classic film on the biology of Sciomyzidae and biological control of snails.
Biology and Immature Stages of Snail-killing Flies of Europe
Author: Lloyd Knutson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biology, Immature Stages, and New Species of Snail-killing Diptera of the Genus Dictya (Sciomyzidae)
Author: Karl Valley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictya
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictya
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Biology and Immature Stages of Certain Species of Pherbellia (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
Author: Albertus Dirk Bratt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sciomyzidae
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sciomyzidae
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Natural History of Snail-killing Flies of South America (Diptera: Sciomyzidae: Tetanocerini)
Author: Jay Abercrombie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Natural Enemies of Terrestrial Molluscs
Author: G. M. Barker
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851990613
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This book provides the first coherent examination of the vast literature on the diversity of organisms that constitute the natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs. In a series of review chapters, it provides an authoritative synthesis of current research on predators, parasites and pathogens and how they might be used to control mollusc pests.
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851990613
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This book provides the first coherent examination of the vast literature on the diversity of organisms that constitute the natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs. In a series of review chapters, it provides an authoritative synthesis of current research on predators, parasites and pathogens and how they might be used to control mollusc pests.
A Guide to the Breeding Habits and Immature Stages of Diptera Cyclorrhapha
Author: Ferrar
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004533931
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004085398).
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004533931
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004085398).
The Phylogenetic Classification of Diptera Cyclorrhapha
Author: G.C. Griffiths
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401572437
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"This work is a specialized dissertation covering a limited field of enquiry. I deal mainly with two interrelated topics, the structure of the male postabdomen and genitalia of cyclorrhaphous flies and how these insects should be classified in a phylogenetic system. Much new information and interpretation is presented here, as well as commentary on the observations and interpretation of previous authors. The field covered by this work has long been recognized as difficult. It is my hope that I will succeed in this work in dispelling some of the difficulties. My proposal of revised terminology for certain parts of the external genitalia thus should not be regarded as innovation for its own sake, but as an attempt to remedy a situation which has been widely recognized as unsatisfactory."--Page 2
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401572437
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"This work is a specialized dissertation covering a limited field of enquiry. I deal mainly with two interrelated topics, the structure of the male postabdomen and genitalia of cyclorrhaphous flies and how these insects should be classified in a phylogenetic system. Much new information and interpretation is presented here, as well as commentary on the observations and interpretation of previous authors. The field covered by this work has long been recognized as difficult. It is my hope that I will succeed in this work in dispelling some of the difficulties. My proposal of revised terminology for certain parts of the external genitalia thus should not be regarded as innovation for its own sake, but as an attempt to remedy a situation which has been widely recognized as unsatisfactory."--Page 2
Manual of Nearctic Diptera
Author: J. F. McAlpine
Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Manual providing an up-to-date, well-illustrated, easily interpretable means for identifying the families and genera of two-winged flies of America north of Mexico. It is also designed to be a basic reference to a wide spectrum of biosystematic information on Diptera. Vol. I includes morphology and terminology of the adult and larval stages, and keys to the families of the order based on both adults and larvae. It also contains the treatments of the 24 families of the Nematocera and the 19 families of the orthorrhaphous Brachycera.
Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Manual providing an up-to-date, well-illustrated, easily interpretable means for identifying the families and genera of two-winged flies of America north of Mexico. It is also designed to be a basic reference to a wide spectrum of biosystematic information on Diptera. Vol. I includes morphology and terminology of the adult and larval stages, and keys to the families of the order based on both adults and larvae. It also contains the treatments of the 24 families of the Nematocera and the 19 families of the orthorrhaphous Brachycera.
Imms’ General Textbook of Entomology
Author: O.W. Richards
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401704724
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
seem as appropriate now as the original balance was when Dr A. D. Imms' textbook was first published over fifty years ago. There are 35 new figures, all based on published illustrations, the sources of which are acknowledged in the captions. We are grateful to the authors concerned and also to Miss K. Priest of Messrs Chapman & Hall, who saved us from many errors and omissions, and to Mrs R. G. Davies for substantial help in preparing the bibliographies and checking references. London O. W. R. R. G. D. May 1976 Part III THEORDERSOFINSECTS THE CLASSIFICATION AND PHYLOGENY OF INSECTS The classification of insects has passed through many changes and with the growth of detailed knowledge an increasing number of orders has come to be recognized. Handlirsch (1908) and Wilson and Doner (1937) have reviewed the earlier attempts at classification, among which the schemes of Brauer (1885), Sharp (1899) and Borner (1904) did much to define the more distinctive recent orders. In 1908 Handlirsch published a more revolutionary system, incorporating recent and fossil forms, which gave the Collembola, Thysanura and Diplura the status of three independent Arthropodan classes and considered as separate orders such groups as the Sialoidea, Raphidioidea, Heteroptera and Homoptera. He also split up the old order Orthoptera, gave its components ordinal rank and regrouped them with some of the other orders into a subclass Orthopteroidea and another subclass Blattaeformia.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401704724
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
seem as appropriate now as the original balance was when Dr A. D. Imms' textbook was first published over fifty years ago. There are 35 new figures, all based on published illustrations, the sources of which are acknowledged in the captions. We are grateful to the authors concerned and also to Miss K. Priest of Messrs Chapman & Hall, who saved us from many errors and omissions, and to Mrs R. G. Davies for substantial help in preparing the bibliographies and checking references. London O. W. R. R. G. D. May 1976 Part III THEORDERSOFINSECTS THE CLASSIFICATION AND PHYLOGENY OF INSECTS The classification of insects has passed through many changes and with the growth of detailed knowledge an increasing number of orders has come to be recognized. Handlirsch (1908) and Wilson and Doner (1937) have reviewed the earlier attempts at classification, among which the schemes of Brauer (1885), Sharp (1899) and Borner (1904) did much to define the more distinctive recent orders. In 1908 Handlirsch published a more revolutionary system, incorporating recent and fossil forms, which gave the Collembola, Thysanura and Diplura the status of three independent Arthropodan classes and considered as separate orders such groups as the Sialoidea, Raphidioidea, Heteroptera and Homoptera. He also split up the old order Orthoptera, gave its components ordinal rank and regrouped them with some of the other orders into a subclass Orthopteroidea and another subclass Blattaeformia.