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Secret weapons : defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures /
"Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive." "In sixty-nine chapters, each illust...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue
- Class Arachnida
- Order Uropygi
- Family Theliphonidae
- 1. Mastigoproctus giganteus (the vinegaroon)
- Order Opiliones
- Family Cosmetidae
- 2. Vonones sayi (a harvestman)
- Family Sclerosomatidae
- 3. Leiobunum nigripalpi (a daddylonglegs)
- Order Scorpiones
- Family Vejovidae
- 4. Vejovis spinigerus (the striped tail scorpion)
- Order Araneida
- Family Oxyopidae
- 5. Peucetia viridans (the green lynx spider)
- Class Chilopoda
- Order Scolopendrida
- Family Scholopendiridae
- 6. Scolopendra heros (the giant Sonoran centipede)
- Order Geophilida
- Family Oryidae
- 7. Orphnaeus brasilianus (a geophilid centipede)
- Class Diplopoda
- Order Spirobolida
- 8. Floridobolus penneri (the Florida scrub millipede)
- Order Polydesmida
- Family Polydesmidae
- 9. Apheloria kleinpeteri (a polydesmid millipede)
- Order Polyzoniida
- Family Polyzoniidae
- 10. Polyzonium rosalbum (a polyzoniid millipede)
- Order Glomerida
- Family Glomeridae
- 11. Glomeris marginata (a pill millipede)
- Order polyxenida
- Family polyxenidae
- 12. Polyxenus fasciculatus (a bristle millipede)
- Class Insecta
- Order Dyctioptera
- Family Blattidae
- 13. Eurycotis floridana (the Florida woods cockroach)
- 14. Periplaneta australasiae (the Australian cockroach)
- 15. Deropeltis wahlbergi (a blattid cockroach)
- Family Blaberidae
- 16. Diploptera punctata (the Pacific beetle cockroach).
- Order Dermaptera
- Family Forficulidae
- 17. Doru taeniatum (an earwig)
- Order Isoptera
- Family Termitidae
- 18. Nasutitermes exitiosus (a termite)
- Order Phasmatodea
- Family Diapheromeridae
- 19. Oreophoetes perusana (a walkingstick)
- Family Pseudophasmatidae
- 20. Anisomorpha buprestoides (the two-striped walkingstick)
- Order Orthoptera
- Family Romaleidae
- 21. Romalea guttata (the eastern lubber grasshopper)
- Order Hemiptera
- Family Coreidae
- 22. Chelinidea vittiger (a leaf-footed bug)
- Family Reduviidae
- 23. Apiomerus flaviventris (a reduviid bug)
- Family Belostomatidae
- 24. Abedus herberti (a giant water bug)
- Family Aphididae
- 25. Aphis nerii (the oleander aphid)
- 26. Prociphilus tessellatus (the woolly alder aphid)
- Family Flatidae
- 27. Ormenaria rufifascia (a flatid planthopper)
- Family Cercopidae
- 28. Prosapia bicincta (the two-lined spittlebug)
- Family Dactylopiidae
- 29. Dactylopius confusus (a cochineal bug)
- Family Aleyrodidae
- 30. Metaleurodicus griseus (a whitefly)
- Order Neuroptera
- Family Chrysopidae
- 31. Ceraeochrysa cubana (a green lacewing)
- 32. Ceraeochrysa smithi (a green lacewing)
- 33. Chrysopa slossonae (a green lacewing)
- Order Coleoptera
- Family Carabidae
- 34. Galerita lecontei (a ground beetle)
- 35. Brachinus (many species) (bombardier beetles)
- Family Gyrinidae
- 36. Dineutus hornii (a whirligig beetle)
- Family Dytiscidae
- 37. Thermonectus marmoratus (a predaceous diving beetle)
- Family Silphidae
- 38. Necrodes surinamensis (the red-lined carrion beetle)
- Family Staphylinidae
- 39. Creophilus maxillosus (the hairy rove beetle).
- Family Cantharidae
- 40. Chauliognathus lecontei (a soldier beetle)
- Family Lampyridae
- 41. Photinus ignitus and Photuris versicolor (fireflies)
- Family Lycidae
- 42. Calopteron reticulatum (the banded net-winged beetle)
- Family Elateridae
- 43. Alaus myops (the eyed elater)
- Family Buprestidae
- 44. Acmaeodera pulchella (the flat-headed baldcypress sapwood borer)
- Family Coccinellidae
- 45. Cycloneda sanguinea (a ladybird beetle)
- 46. Epilachna varivestis (the Mexican bean beetle)
- Family Meloidae
- 47. Epicauta (an unidentified species) (a blister beetle)
- Family Pyrochroidae
- 48. Neopyrochroa flabellata (a fire-colored beetle)
- Family Tenebrionidae
- 49. Adelium percatum (a darkling beetle)
- 50. Bolitotherus cornutus (the forked fungus beetle)
- 51. Eleodes longicollis (a darkling beetle)
- Family Scarabaeidae
- 52. Trichiotinus rufobrunneus (a scarab beetle)
- Family Chrysomelidae
- 53. Hemisphaerota cyanea (a tortoise beetle)
- 54. Gratiana pallidula (a tortoise beetle)
- 55. Plagiodera versicolora (the imported willow leaf beetle)
- Order Lepidoptera
- Family Dalceridae
- 56. Dalcerides ingenita (a dalcerid moth)
- Family Noctuidae
- 57. Litoprosopus futilis (the palmetto borer moth)
- Family Notodontidae
- 58. Schizura unicornis (the unicorn caterpillar moth)
- Family Thyrididae
- 59. Calindoea trifascialis (a thyridid moth)
- Family Yponomeutidae
- 60. Ypsolopha dentella (the European honeysuckle leaf roller).
- Family Geometridae
- 61. Nemoria outina (a geometrid moth)
- Family Arctiidae
- 62. Utetheisa ornatrix (the rattlebox moth)
- Family Saturniidae
- 63. Automeris io (the io moth)
- Family Papilionidae
- 64. Eurytides marcellus (the zebra swallowtail butterfly)
- Family Pieridae
- 65. Pieris rapae (the cabbage butterfly)
- Family Nymphalidae
- 66. Danaus plexippus (the monarch butterfly)
- Order Hymenoptera
- Family Pergidae
- 67. Perga affinis (a pergine sawfly)
- Family Formicidae
- 68. Camponotus floridanus (a carpenter ant)
- Family Apidae
- 69. Apis mellifera (the honey bee)
- Epilogue
- How to study insects and their kin
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration credits
- Index.