Studies on the Fauna of Suriname and Other Guyanas : Volume XVI

This book is intended for two very different categories of readers: specialists in aquatic Heteroptera and the non-specialist fieldworker or amateur. The specialist will consider many parts of the text superfluous, e.g. the descriptions of well-known species, data on biology and explanations of even simplest morphological terms. The main reason for including all these items, which in most cases have been treated much better elsewhere, is the difficulty of obtaining scientific papers in Suriname and probably in the other Guyanas too. So, apart from the information intended for specialists, this publication contains also data useful for the non-specialist who tries to identify a Guyanese water bug. Moreover an attempt is made to arouse interest in these animals in the layman. Forthat purpose a subjective choice from the most striking and well-known data on biology and ecological physiology is given. Mr. H. Front Matter....Pages ii-x The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) of the Guyana Region....Pages 1-336 Back Matter....Pages 337-337