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Arthropoda: insecta: coleoptera : volume 3: morphology and systematics (phytophaga) /

This book is the third volume in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With approximately 350,000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich order of insects and the largest group of animals of comparable geological age. This third...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Beutel, Rolf G.; Leschen, Richard A.B.
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Handbook of zoology/ handbuch der zoologie. handbook of zoology
Subjects:
Beetles > Classification.
Beetles > Morphology.
Beetles.
Insects > Classification.
Tiere (Zoologie)
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110274462
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Summary: This book is the third volume in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With approximately 350,000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich order of insects and the largest group of animals of comparable geological age. This third Coleoptera volume completes the Morphology and Systematics volumes with 43 chapters and covers one of the largest radiations of beetles, the mainly plant-feeding Phytophaga, with information on world distribution, biology, morphology and anatomy, phylogeny and comments on taxonomy.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xii,675pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110274462（electronic bk.）
Index Number: QL573
CLC: Q969.48
Contents: Frontmatter --
Editors preface --
Contents --
Contributors --
1. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of Coleoptera /
2. Chrysomeloidea Latreille, 1802 --
2.1. Vesperidae Mulsant, 1839 /
2.2. Oxypeltidae Lacordaire, 1868 /
2.3. Disteniidae J. Thomson, 1861 /
2.4. Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 /
2.5. Megalopodidae Latreille, 1802 /
2.6. Orsodacnidae C. G. Thomson, 1859 /
2.7. Chrysomelidae Latrielle, 1802 /
3. Curculionoidea Latreille, 1802: Introduction, Phylogeny --
3.1. Nemonychidae Bedel, 1882 /
3.2. Anthribidae Billberg, 1820 /
3.3. Belidae Schoenherr, 1826 /
3.4. Attelabidae Billberg, 1820 /
3.5. Caridae Thompson, 1992 /
3.6. Brentidae Billberg, 1820 /
3.7. Curculionidae Latreille, 1802 /
Index.

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