IMMS' General Textbook of Entomology: Volume 2 - Classification and Biology - Hardcover

Imms, A. D.; Richards, O. W.; Davies, R. G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412152207 ISBN 13: 9780412152207

Publisher: Chapman and Hall, 1977

Synopsis

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.

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Synopsis

"Imm's General Textbook of Entomology" has been in existence for the past 70 years. the 10th edition represents a substantial revision. Volume 2 reviews each of the major orders of insects, giving an account of their anatomy, biology, metamorphosis and general classification as well as indications of their probable phylogeny and evolutionary relationships.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412152207
• ISBN 13: 9780412152207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 943