A Field Guide to Insects: America North of MexicoFind what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides--their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated with 1,300 drawings and 142 superb color paintings. Illustrations - which use the unique Peterson Identification System to distinguish one insect from another - include size lines to show the actual length of each insect. A helpful glossary explains the technical terms of insect anatomy. |
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Contents
Introductory Chapters | 1 |
Line drawings | 3 |
Phylum Arthropoda Insects and Their | 48 |
Drawings of families genera etc of insects between pp | 49 |
Order Embioptera | 100 |
Order Mallophaga | 106 |
Order Hemiptera | 112 |
Order Homoptera | 128 |
Other editions - View all
A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico Donald Joyce Borror,Richard E. White No preview available - 1970 |
A Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico Donald Joyce Borror,Richard E. White No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
3-segmented abdomen abdominal segments absent adults America Anal cell antennae Antennae clubbed Antennae short antennal segment apex apical spurs Apocrita appendages aquatic bark basal base beak bees BEETLES Family blackish body bristles brownish BUGS Family butterflies CADDISFLIES cerci colored compound eyes costal coxae cross vein damselflies Diptera discal cell dorsal eggs elongate elytra fairly common femora flattened FLIES Family flowers front wing fungi genus head hind wing humeral Hymenoptera Identification illus insects labium Larvae Larvae are parasites larvae feed leaf legs Linn M₂ mandibles maxillary palps membranous mesonotum moths MOTHS Family narrow nest nymphs Ocelli Oral vibrissae oval ovipositor pair plant feeders PLANTHOPPERS posterior predaceous pronotum prothorax pubescence R₁ rare sclerite scutellum Similar slender sometimes specimens spines Subfamily submarginal cells Suborder Superfamily suture tarsal segment Tarsi thorax threadlike tibiae usually found vegetation vibrissae wasps wing venation wingless wingspread