Harvestmen : : The Biology of Opiliones / / ed. by Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Acosta, Luis E.,; Cokendolpher, James C.,; Curtis, David J.,; Dunlop, Jason A.,; Giribet, Gonzalo,; Gnaspini, Pedro,; Hara, Marcos R.,; Kury, Adriano B.,; Machado, Glauco,; Macías-Ordóñez, Rogelio,; Mitov, Plamen G.,; Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo,; Santos, Flávio H.,; Shultz, Jeffrey W.,; Tsurusaki, Nobuo,
• HerausgeberIn: Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known scientifically as the Opiliones, or harvestmen. The 25 authors provide a much-needed synthesis of what is currently known about t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1 What Are Harvestmen?
• 2 Morphology and Functional Anatomy
• 3 Phylogeny and Biogeography
• 4 Taxonomy
• 5 Paleontology
• 6 Cytogenetics
• 7 Ecology
• 8 Diet and Foraging
• 9 Natural Enemies
• 10 Defense Mechanisms
• 11 Social Behavior
• 12 Reproduction
• 13 Development
• 14 Ecophysiology
• 15 Methods and Techniques of Study
• References
• Taxonomic Index
• Subject Index