The Insects of Australia : a textbook for students and research workers

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The Insects of Australia : a textbook for students and research workers

Melbourne University Press, 1991

2nd ed.

  • set
  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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includes bibliography and index

"First published 1970 by Melbourne University Press, Reprinted 1973,1979"

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a new edition of a work of scholarship with an entirely revised, expanded and updated text. This edition of "The Insects of Australia" presents the research of over 70 contributing authors, all specialists in their respective fields. It contains hundreds of illustrations including colour plates and line drawings, many of which are new. With several introductory chapters of general biology and details of the several hundred insect families and tens of thousands of insect species (many unique and unusual) known to exist in Australia, this book should be a useful reference for entomologists, students, and naturalists. This book is intended for students and researchers in entomology.

Table of Contents

  • General biology
  • fossil history and the evolution of hexapod structures
  • insects and humans in Australia
  • Protura
  • Thysanura (Zygentoma)
  • Plecoptera
  • Mantodea
  • Orthoptera
  • Zoraptera
  • Hemiptera
  • Raphidioptera
  • Strepsiptera
  • Diptera
  • Hymenoptera.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA13602906
  • ISBN
    • 0522844545
    • 0522846378
    • 0522846386
  • Country Code
    at
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Melbourne
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    29 cm
  • Classification
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