Carabid beetles : their evolution, natural history, and classification : proceedings of the First International Symposium of Carabidology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., August 21, 23, and 25, 1976

Proceedings of the First International Symposium of Carabidology held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., August 21, 23 and 25, 1976 Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction—Three Leaders....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Europe and the Circumpolar Area: Events and Personalities....Pages 9-15 Some Events and Trends in Study of Carabidae in North America....Pages 17-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Speciation Patterns and What They Mean....Pages 23-33 Rates of Taxonomically Significant Differentiation in Relation to Geographical Isolation and Habitat: Examples from a Study of the Nearctic Nebria fauna....Pages 35-57 Conspectus of Carabid Classification: History, Holomorphology, and Higher Taxa....Pages 63-111 Wing-folding Mechanisms of Beetles, with Special Reference to Investigations of Adephagan Phylogeny (Coleoptera)....Pages 113-180 Metathoracic Wing Structures as Phylogenetic Indicators in the Adephaga (Coleoptera)....Pages 181-191 Chemical Defense in Carabids and Its Bearing on Phylogeny....Pages 193-203 Contributions of Characters of Larvae to Systematics of Carabidae....Pages 205-208 Larvae of North American Carabidae with a Key to the Tribes....Pages 209-291 The Science of Biogeography with Relation to Carabids....Pages 295-317 The South American Carabid Fauna: Endemic Tribes and Tribes with African Relationships....Pages 319-325 Trans-Atlantic Dispersal: Several Examples of Colonization of the Gulf of Biafra by Middle American Stocks of Carabidae....Pages 327-330 Zoogeography of Rhysodini—Do Beetles Travel on Driftwood?....Pages 331-342 Existing Trans-Tropical and Southern Pathways of Dispersal for Carabidae....Pages 343-348 The Importance of Beringia as Reflected in the Present Fauna....Pages 349-354 The American Connection, Past and Present, as a Model Blending Dispersal and Vicariance in the Study of Biogeography....Pages 355-367 Investigations on Present Climatic Refugia in North America Through Studies on the Distributions of Carabid Beetles: Concepts, Methodology and Prospectus....Pages 369-381 The Theory of Glacial Refugia....Pages 385-394 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Quaternary Coleoptera Studies in North America: Past and Present....Pages 395-406 The Carabidae of the Glacial Refuge in the British Isles and their Contribution to the Post Glacial Colonization of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic Islands....Pages 407-424 Late Tertiary Carabid Fossils from Alaska and the Canadian Archipelago....Pages 425-445 Front Matter....Pages 447-447 Relationships between Annual and Daily Rhythms, Climatic Demands and Habitat Selection in Carabid Beetles....Pages 449-470 Mortality Rates of the Mobile and Immobile Stages in the Life-Cycle of Carabids....Pages 471-478 A Review of the Natural History and Evolution of Ectoparasitoid Relationships in Carabid Beetles....Pages 479-484 The Occurrence and Importance of Ground Beetles in Agricultural and Surrounding Habitats....Pages 485-505 Carabid Beetles and Pollution....Pages 507-521 Riparian Carabid Guilds—a Spontaneous Question Generator....Pages 525-537 Thoughts on the Evolutionary History of Ground Beetles: Hypotheses Generated from Comparative Faunal Analyses of Lowland Forest Sites in Temperate and Tropical Regions....Pages 539-592 Front Matter....Pages 593-593 Applications of Computer Techniques to the Study of Ground Beetle Natural History, Systematics, and Zoogeography....Pages 595-597 Epilogue....Pages 599-618 Back Matter....Pages 619-635