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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ross H. Arnett, Jr. (late of Gainesville, Florida, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: CRC Press Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9781138423718ISBN 10: 1138423718 Pages: 1024 Publication Date: 27 July 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Any biologist with a passing interest in insects, any student looking for a pen-and-ink drawing of a particular beetle, or any reference librarian checking out a common name for an insect will find a use for this volume. This new edition gathers together as much as anyone needs to gain entry into the vast entomological literature. This book is a tribute to Arnett's single-minded devotion, over the course of 80 years, to the study of insects…According to the author, there are 87,107 different types of insects in North America, all of which are accounted for in this book."" -CHOICE, February 2001 ""Fifteen years after the first edition, which was the first such handbook to be compiled in American entomology, the second edition of R.H. Arnett, Jr.'s massive tome has been revamped and improved with: captions…restored for what now are the more than 1,500 photos and line drawings; cladistics used to determine relationships; bibliographic entries expanded and updated; and, many identification keys revised for uniformity…every order, family, and genus is numbered and indexed making the landmark work a convenient tool for identifying insects and determining taxonomic position…broadly useful to areas other than the specified geographic region."" -IPM Net" Any biologist with a passing interest in insects, any student looking for a pen-and-ink drawing of a particular beetle, or any reference librarian checking out a common name for an insect will find a use for this volume. This new edition gathers together as much as anyone needs to gain entry into the vast entomological literature. This book is a tribute to Arnett's single-minded devotion, over the course of 80 years, to the study of insects...According to the author, there are 87,107 different types of insects in North America, all of which are accounted for in this book. -CHOICE, February 2001 Fifteen years after the first edition, which was the first such handbook to be compiled in American entomology, the second edition of R.H. Arnett, Jr.'s massive tome has been revamped and improved with: captions...restored for what now are the more than 1,500 photos and line drawings; cladistics used to determine relationships; bibliographic entries expanded and updated; and, many identification keys revised for uniformity...every order, family, and genus is numbered and indexed making the landmark work a convenient tool for identifying insects and determining taxonomic position...broadly useful to areas other than the specified geographic region. -IPM Net Author InformationRoss H. Arnett Jr. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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