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The bees of the world /
"In this update of his reference, Charles D. Michener reveals a diverse fauna that numbers more than 17,000 species and ranges from the common honeybee to rare bees that feed on the pollen of a single type of plant. With many new facts, reclassifications, and revisions, the second edition of Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- About bees and this book
- What are bees?
- The importance of bees
- Development and reproduction
- Solitary versus social life
- Floral relationships of bees
- Nests and food storage
- Parasitic and robber bees
- Body form, tagmata, and sex differences
- Structures and anatomical terminology of adults
- Structure and terminology of immature stages
- Bees and sphecoid wasps as a clade
- Bees as a monophyletic group
- The origin of bees from wasps
- Classification of the bee-sphecoid clade
- Bee taxa and categories
- Methods of classification
- The history of bee classifications
- Short-tongued versus long-tongued bees
- Family-level phylogeny and the proto-bee
- The higher classification of bees
- Fossil bees
- The geological history of bees
- Diversity and abundance
- Dispersal
- Biogeography
- Reduction or loss of structures
- New and modified structures
- Family-group names
- Explanation of taxonomic accounts in section 36 to 121
- Some problematic taxa
- The identification of bees
- Key to the families, based on adults
- Notes on certain couplets in the key to families
- Practical key to family-group taxa, based on females
- Family stenotritidae
- Family colletidae
- Family andrenidae
- Family halictidae
- Family melittidae
- Family megachilidae
- Family apidae.