A Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970 - Nature - 404 pages
Find 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.
 

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
Order Coleoptera
146
are indicated by boldface page numbers in the Index
195
Order Strepsiptera
206
Glossary
363
References
373
146
379
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