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Flies

The Natural History & Diversity of Diptera
BuchGebunden
616 Seiten
Englisch
Firefly Bookserschienen am01.12.2012
All of the world's fly families are included in this book, with photographic coverage spanning the range.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextAll of the world's fly families are included in this book, with photographic coverage spanning the range.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-77085-100-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum01.12.2012
Seiten616 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 220 mm, Höhe 289 mm, Dicke 50 mm
Gewicht2457 g
Artikel-Nr.17803973

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1: Life Histories, Habits and Habitats of Flies. Chapter 1 - Life Histories of Flies. Chapter 2 - Flies, Plants and Fungi. Chapter 3 - Flies and Vertebrates. Chapter 4 - Flies and Invertebrates. Part 2: Diversity. Chapter 5 - Origins and Distribution of the Diptera. Chapter 6 - The Lower Diptera. Chapter 7 - The Lower Brachycera and Empidoidea. Chapter 8 - The Higher Brachycera or Cyclorrhapha. Part 3: Identifying and Studying Flies. Chapter 9 - Collecting, Preserving and Rearing Flies. Chapter 10 - Identifying Fly Families.mehr
Kritik
This voluminous book is the first worldwide treatment of the order Diptera to be published. The author...is not only a well-known and very experienced dipterist but also an excellent photographer of insects, who is moreover endowed with an indisputably great literary talent and enormous creativity. All these attributes and abilities combined with great experience in science and teaching were utilized in the preparation of this extraordinary publication.... The Pictorial keys to the families of Diptera worldwide, which include a review of the morphological characters used, forms a particularly valuable part of the last chapter called Identifying Flies... The major merit of this work is its intelligibility and readability, which make it accessible not only to dipterists but to a wide public interested in natural history. The unusual number (over 2,000) of spectacular colour macro-photographs of flies, which form an integral part of this book, greatly increases its attractiveness. Even the most demanding Diptera specialist is likely to be enthusiastic about Marshall's Flies. This is because not only does it include up-to-date information on all currently recognised families of Diptera but also photographs of at least one representative of each family, including some extremely rare or even mysterious ones, 99 percent of which are of living specimens! If nothing else, the considerable effort over many years that was required of the author to achieve this should be greatly appreciated. Who of the contemporary researchers in Diptera could say that he/she had studied or even seen a species of all the families of flies in the world? Surely, almost nobody, but Steve Marshall has enabled us to fill these gaps in our personal knowledge of this order of insects. Finally, also the esthetical aspects of flies should be stressed. The splendid photographs show us the beauty of the colours, forms and diversity of the often very peculiar structures of flies, all of which further contr
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Autor

Stephen A. Marshall is a professor of entomology at the University of Guelph, where he developed a major insect collection and carries out research on insect systematics and biodiversity. He has discovered hundreds of new species, several new genera and even two new subfamilies. He is the author of Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity.