American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico, Second Edition

1024 pages with illustrations  ISBN 0849302129      £80.00

This book offers complete account of the insects of North America. It is an up-dated edition of the first handbook ever compiled in the history of American entomology. It enables rapid determination of the taxonomic position of any species, genus, or higher taxon of insect known to occur in America and Canada. Every order, family, and genus is conveniently numbered and indexed, making this volume the only complete single source for all of the names of orders, families, and genera currently available. This book fills the need for an accurate way to identify, with the several hundred drawings and photos, the common insects of all orders. It is available to those working without a major collection and library and to those who would like to have a general knowledge of insect life without becoming overwhelmed by the vast number of minute insect species. This usable guide provides sizes, shapes, colour patterns and salient features of some species of each major family by pointing out those groups most likely to be encountered, including all North America pests. This edition has been revised to enable researchers to use the results of cladistics (a new tool for determining the relationship of orders, families, genera, and species of organisms, including plants as well as animals). Specialists have provided lengthy lists of generic changes and many of the identification keys have been revised by adding more illustrations and making sure all description terms are in the Glossary, while the bibliographies of each Order section have been updated to include all important works that have appeared since the original edition. It contains more than 1,200 photos and drawings.

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