Research Catalog

Title

The insects : structure and function / R.F. Chapman.

Author

Chapman, R. F. (Reginald Frederick)

Publication

• New York : American Elsevier Publishing Company, [1969]
• ©1969

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Details

Description

xii, 819 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Insects
• Insecta
• Insecta (class)
• Insects

Genre/Form

• Instructional and educational works
• Instructional and educational works.
• Matériel d'éducation et de formation.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 749-789.

Contents

Section A. The head, ingestion, utilisation and distribution of food -- Head and its appendages ; Feeding ; The alimentary canal ; Digestion and absorption ; Nutrition ; The fat body and general metabolism -- Section B. The thorax and movement. The thorax and legs ; Locomotion ; The wings ; Movement and control of the wings ; The muscles ; Flight activity -- Section C. The abdomen, reproduction and development. The abdomen ; The reproductive system ; Mating behaviour and the transfer of sperm to the female ; Oviposition and the egg ; Embryology ; Unusual types of development ; Hatching and postembryonic development ; Metamorphosis -- Section D. The cuticle, respiration and excretion. The integument ; The tracheal system and respiration in terrestrial insects ; Respiration in aquatic and endoparastitic insects ; Nitrogenous excretion and salt and water regulation -- Section E. The nervous and sensory systems. The nervous system ; The eyes and vision ; Sound production ; Mechanoreception ; Chemoreception ; Temperature and humidity -- Section F. The blood, hormones and pheromones. The circulatory system ; The haemolymph ; The endocrine organs and hormones ; Diapause ; Pheromones.

ISBN

• 0444197583
• 9780444197580

LCCN

71075216

OCLC

• ocm00046655
• 46655
• SCSB-305785

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library