A Key to the Major Groups of Terrestrial Invertebrates (AIDGAP) - Softcover

Tilling, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908819200 ISBN 13: 9781908819208

Publisher: Field Studies Council, 2014

Synopsis

• AIDGAP guide to land invertebrates
• Designed to be used with living animals

Many identification guides assume that you know which order the invertebrates belong to. But what if you're not sure whether you have caught a bug or a beetle? A hoverfly or a bee? A harvestman or a spider?

Terrestrial invertebrates AIDGAP fills in the missing gap between popular picture books and difficult-to-use specialist guides. It covers the larger invertebrates (at least 2mm length) found on land in Britain and Ireland. Coverage includes non-native invertebrates sometimes found in the wild, like scorpions and stick insects.

The author has deliberately avoided characters which require considerable expertise or expensive equipment. Identification uses on external characters which are visible with a hand lens, or a low-power binocular microscope. Also included are ecological notes for all groups. The taxonomy is fully up to date.

This guide is part of WildID’s AIDGAP series (Aids to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants). Since 1976, the AIDGAP project has published over 40 straightforward and clearly written identification keys.

Edition details

• Publisher: Field Studies Council
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908819200
• ISBN 13: 9781908819208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88