Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata - Zygoptera (eBook)
VIII, 693 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-8176-7 (ISBN)
This beautiful volume, with hundreds of fascinating hand-drawn illustrations, completes the two-volume work on the order Odonata in the Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects. The Zygoptera volume encompasses the small dragonflies often called damselflies. The sections on the morphology of the adults and larvae are followed by discussions of factors influencing their distribution and instructions on the methods used to observe, collect, preserve, and examine specimens.
The author, Dr. Charles W. Heckman, has performed ecological research in Laos, Thailand, Germany, Brazil, and the United States. His publications include books on rice field ecology in Thailand and the Pantanal wetland in western Brazil, as well as many monographs and shorter publications on various aspects of biology and environmental sciences. He undertook the preparation of the Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects to produce a reference work with which researchers in South America can identify the species they encounter without having to first complete exhaustive searches of the literature, including papers published on several continents in different languages. The lack of such a tool has long impeded progress in faunal surveys, ecology, and other fields of science. Dr. Heckman's extensive experience identifying aquatic insect species using less than optimal literature has allowed him to develop an ability for recognizing the morphological features most useful for distinguishing one species from another, and this ability comes to the aid of the users of his keys to the South American aquatic insect species.
This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil. The original goal was to include all genera known from South America and all species from Brazil, but for most groups, the scope was expanded to encompass all species in South America, and, in some cases, to include terrestrial species of orders that include both terrestrial and aquatic taxa. In no case is a taxonomic revision of any group undertaken, although recommendations for such revisions are included where appropriate, and the probable synonymy of nominal species still treated as valid in the literature is noted. Two different approaches will be employed according to the taxon being treated. For phylogenetic groups encompassing overwhelmingly or exclusively aquatic species, such as the orders Plecoptera and Ephemeroptera or the families Dytiscidae and Culicidae, keys are provided to distinguish all genera and species known to occur in South America. An effort has been made to include every identifiable species so that the user of the key can determine with reasonable certainty whether or not his specimen belongs to a species that has already been described or whether it is one that is not yet known to science. Where feasible, complete keys will be prepared for groups containing both aquatic and terrestrial species that do not encompass an extraordinarily large number of species. This has already been done for the order Collembola.
The author, Dr. Charles W. Heckman, has performed ecological research in Laos, Thailand, Germany, Brazil, and the United States. His publications include books on rice field ecology in Thailand and the Pantanal wetland in western Brazil, as well as many monographs and shorter publications on various aspects of biology and environmental sciences. He undertook the preparation of the Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects to produce a reference work with which researchers in South America can identify the species they encounter without having to first complete exhaustive searches of the literature, including papers published on several continents in different languages. The lack of such a tool has long impeded progress in faunal surveys, ecology, and other fields of science. Dr. Heckman’s extensive experience identifying aquatic insect species using less than optimal literature has allowed him to develop an ability for recognizing the morphological features most useful for distinguishing one species from another, and this ability comes to the aid of the users of his keys to the South American aquatic insect species.
Introduction
An appeal for quality in taxonomic work
Scope of the work
Acknowledgements
Literature Section 3: Odonata
Key to the suborders: Adults, Larvae Section 3, Part 1: Zygoptera
3.1.1 Morphology
3.1.1.1 Adult morphology
3.1.1.2 Larval morphology
3.1.2 Ecology
3.1.3 Preservation and examination
3.1.4 Zoogeography
3.1.5 Taxonomic problems
3.1.6 Suggestions for improvement
A note on the figures
3.1.7 Key to the families of Zygoptera in South America: Adults, Larvae
Polythoridae
Calopterygidae
Heliocharitidae
Perilestidae
Lestidae
Pseudostigmatidae
Megapodagrionidae
Coenagrionidae
Platystictidae
Protoneuridae
Literature
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.5.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects | Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects |
| Zusatzinfo | VIII, 693 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | Ecology • Entomology • Faunal inventories • insect • Limnology • Morphology • Orthoptera • Stream ecology • Zoogeography |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4020-8176-6 / 1402081766 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-8176-7 / 9781402081767 |
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