Research Catalog

Title

An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America / edited by Richard W. Merritt and Kenneth W. Cummins.

Publication

Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, ©1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Merritt, Richard W. (Richard William), 1945-
• Cummins, Kenneth W.

Description

xiii, 441 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

This treatment is intended to provide a standard guide to North American families of aquatic insects; their taxonomy, phylogeny, morphology, ecology, and distribution, as well as collection and rearing techniques. The coverage should allow a variety of groups, both lay and professional, to identify and categorize the immatures of adults they collect and, having done so, to associate pertinent ecological and distributional information with the group in question.

Subject

• Aquatic insects > North America
• Insects
• Insects > North America
• Insecta
• Insecta (class)
• Insects
• Aquatic insects
• Aquatic insects
• North America
• North America

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 377-425.

Contents

Preface -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Ch. 1. Introduction / R.W. Merritt and K.W. Cummins -- Ch. 2. General morphology of aquatic insects / K.W. Cummins and R.W. Merritt -- Ch. 3. Collecting, sampling, and rearing methods for aquatic insects / R.W. Merritt, K.W. Cummins, and V.H. Resh -- Ch. 4. Ecology and distribution of aquatic insects / K.W. Cummins -- Ch. 5. Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary adaptations of aquatic insects / V.H. Resh and J.O. Solem -- Ch. 6. General classification and key to the orders of aquatic and semiaquatic insects / H.V. Daly -- Ch. 7. Aquatic Collembola / K. Christiansen -- Ch. 8. Ephemeroptera / G.F. Edmunds, Jr. -- Ch. 9. Odonat / M.J. Westfall, Jr. -- Ch. 10. Semiaquatic Orthoptera / I.J. Cantrall -- Ch. 11. Plecoptera / P.P. Harper -- Ch. 12. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera / J.T. Polhemus -- Ch. 13. Megaloptera and aquatic Neuroptera / E.D. Evans -- Ch. 14. Trichoptera / G.B. Wiggins -- Ch. 15. Aquatic and semiaquatic Lepidoptera / W.H. Lange -- Ch. 16. Aquatic Coleoptera / J.T. Doyen and G. Ulrich -- Ch. 17. Aquatic Hymenoptera / K.S. Hagen -- Ch. 18. Aquatic Diptera. Part 1, Larvae of aquatic Diptera / H.J. Teskey -- Aquatic Diptera. Part 2, Adults of aquatic Diptera / R.W. Merritt and E.I. Schlinger -- Ch. 19. Tipulidae / G.W. Byers -- Ch. 20. Culicidae / H.D. Newson -- Ch. 21. Simuliidae / B.V. Peterson -- Ch. 22. Chironomidae / W.P. Coffman -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 0840380070
• 9780840380074
• 0840318138
• 9780840318138

LCCN

77087334

OCLC

• ocm03953557
• 3953557
• SCSB-395233

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library