Introduction. The Insect Fauna of America, North of Mexico. Glossary. Index.
Ross H. Arnett Jr.
"Any biologist with a passing interest in insects, any student
looking for a pen-and-ink drawing of a particular beetle, or any
reference librarian checking out a common name for an insect will
find a use for this volume. This new edition gathers together as
much as anyone needs to gain entry into the vast entomological
literature. This book is a tribute to Arnett's single-minded
devotion, over the course of 80 years, to the study of
insects…According to the author, there are 87,107 different types
of insects in North America, all of which are accounted for in this
book."
-CHOICE, February 2001
"Fifteen years after the first edition, which was the first such
handbook to be compiled in American entomology, the second edition
of R.H. Arnett, Jr.'s massive tome has been revamped and improved
with: captions…restored for what now are the more than 1,500 photos
and line drawings; cladistics used to determine relationships;
bibliographic entries expanded and updated; and, many
identification keys revised for uniformity…every order, family, and
genus is numbered and indexed making the landmark work a convenient
tool for identifying insects and determining taxonomic
position…broadly useful to areas other than the specified
geographic region."
-IPM Net
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