An Atlas of Insect Morphology

Scan of "An Atlas of Insect Morphology". Image format (not textual/OCR). The book consists exclusively of illustrations of external anatomy and their labels. It includes over 700 detailed diagrams. "PREFACE The principal aim of the present atlas is to survey insect morphology as far as the imago's exoskeleton is concerned. Many books of a similar nature have appeared in the past, and though the subject is the same the treatment of our attempt is different. Most authors on insect morphology wrote descriptive works with a wealth of informa-tion hidden in the text thereby necessitating that students interested in the superficial characteristics of a particular insect group should delve into voluminous books to select terminology for their special purpose. But since insects are so extremely variable in form, in the majority of cases the selection of the precise term to describe any particular feature presents quite a task. To further aggravate the problem many an author coined new words either to substitute older ones or to provide a name for a skeletal characteristic previously unnamed. Thus, there are scarcely any two works using identical terminology. One of the most comprehensive works in the recent literature is the two volumes (the head and the thorax) of Matsuda, whose great merit is that he attempted to homologize insect morphology. Even so his books are basically descriptive presenting at the same time a string of arguments and counter-arguments to support the validity of one or another technical term, in many instances coining new ones, thereby once again rendering orientation difficult. The majority of the figures have been adapted from literature sources, on the other hand, many have been newly designed, especially when illustrating homologized body regions: the reason for this approach was to convey the meaning in a simplified form. -The Authors" Preface 7 Introduction 9 Plates 13 The wingless insect 14 The winged insect 14 The head 15 The frons 22 The clypeus 22 The labrum 22 The frontoclypeus 23 The clypeolabrum 23 The gula 24 The gena 24 The pleurostoma 24 The mandible 25 The maxilla 26 The labium 28 The antenna 30 Principal types of the insect head 32 Mouthparts with mandibles 33 Mouthparts of the licking type 35 Mouthparts of the sucking type 37 Mouthparts of the piercing-sucking type 39 The thorax 53 The wingless thorax 54 The winged thorax 55 The prothorax 64 The mesothorax 67 The metathorax 69 The sternum 71 The tergum 75 The leg 77 The coxa 79 The trochanter 81 The femur 82 The tibia 83 The tarsus and the last tarsal joint 83 The wing 87 The venation 89 The remigial region 92 The vannal region 95 The jugal region 96 The abdomen 101 Typical genitalia of the male and female 104 Protura 108 Diplura 109 Collembola 109 Thysanura 110 Ephemeroptera 111 Odonata 112 Plecoptera 114 Blattaria 116 Mantoidea 117 Orthoptera 118 Phasmoidea 120 Dermaptera 122 Embioptera 124 Isoptera 125 Coleoptera 126 Psocoptera 128 Zoraptera 129 Hymenoptera 130 Mallophaga 132 Anoplura 132 Raphidioptera 133 Megaloptera 134 Neuroptera 136 Mecoptera 138 Thysanoptera 140 Strepsitera 142 Siphonaptera 143 Diptera 144 Lepidoptera 146 Trichoptera 148 Heteroptera 150 Homoptera 152 Appendix 155 Noncellular cuticular process 156 Unicellular cuticular process 157 The sensillum 158 The seta 159 The chaetotaxy of the head 160 The chaetotaxy of the thorax 161 Sensory organs 162 Multicellular external process 164 Multicellular internal process 165 The spiracle 166 The auditory organ 167 The sound-producing organs 168 The organ of Johnston 170 The glands of secretion 171 The wing pattern 172 The segmentation 174 The articulation 175 Indexes 177 Latin—English 179 English—Latin 214 By H. Steinmann And L. Zombori ; [manuscript Revised By Z. Kaszab And G. Szelényi ; Latin Text Revised By L. Pintér]. Includes Indexes.