Evolution of the insects / David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel.
"This book chronicles, for the first time, the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships, and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of i...
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Diversity and evolution
- 2. Fossil insects
- 3. Arthropods and the origin of insects
- 4. The insects
- 5. Earliest insects
- 6. Insects take to the skies
- 7. Polyneoptera
- 8. The paraneopteran orders
- 9. The holometabola
- 10. Coleoptera and strepsiptera
- 11. Hymenoptera : ants, bees, and other wasps
- 12. Panorpida : antliophora and amphiesmenoptera
- 13. Amphiesmenoptera : the caddisflies and lepidoptera
- 14. Insects become modern : the cretaceous and tertiary periods
- 15. Epilogue.