Handbook of Zoology / Handbuch der Zoologie : : A Natural History of the Phyla of the Animal Kingdom / Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches. / Coleoptera. : Volume 1. : Coleoptera, Beetles. Morphology and Systematics / / ed. by Rolf G. Beutel, Richard A.B. Leschen.
This book is a revised edition of the first of three volumes in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With over 380,000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most species-rich order of insects and the largest group of animals of comparable geol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Zoology / Handbuch der Zoologie
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVII, 684 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editors’ preface to the 2nd edition of Volume 1
- Editors’ preface to the 1st edition of Volume 1
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1. Systematic position, basal branching pattern and early evolution
- 2. Classification (families & subfamilies)
- 3. Molecular systematics of Coleoptera
- 4. Coleoptera, morphology
- 5. Archostemata Kolbe, 1908
- 6. Myxophaga Crowson, 1955
- 7. Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806
- 8. Polyphaga Emery, 1886
- 9. Scirtiformia Fleming, 1821
- 10. Scirtoidea Fleming, 1821
- 11. Staphyliniformia Lameere, 1900
- 12. Hydrophiloidea Latreille, 1802
- 13. Histeroidea Gyllenhal, 1808
- 14. Staphylinoidea Latreille, 1802
- 15. Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802
- 16. Elateriformia Crowson, 1960
- 17. Dascilloidea Guérin-Méneville, 1843
- 18. Buprestoidea Crowson, 1955
- 19. Byrrhoidea Latreille, 1804
- Taxonomic index