| Authors | Jens Böcher, Niels P. Kristensen, Thomas H. Pape & Lars B. Vilhelmsen |
| ISBN | 9789004256408 |
| Publisher | E.J. Brill |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 881 |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Images | Photos and illustrations |
| Year published | 2015 |
In The Greenland Entomofauna an international team of 64 taxonomic specialists provide for the first time a richly illustrated guide to the identification of the approximate 1.200 species of Hexapods/Insects, Arachnids and Myriapods so far known to occur in the country.
While the composition, origin and adaptations of the Greenland fauna has always been a challenge to biogeographers and ecologists/ecophysiologists, the provision of a tool for detailed identification of its constituent species is now particularly timely, since global climate change will expectedly have a particularly noticeable impact on biota at high latitudes. This obviously renders the feasibility of monitoring distributional range shifts of the principal components of this biota a matter of some urgency.
Contents
Foreword xi
List of contributors xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. Arthropod structure and systematics 3
3. The Greenland entomofauna in its arctic context 10
4. The Greenland entomofauna: zoogeography and history 21
5. The inventory of the Greenland entomofauna 37
6. Collembola 48
7. Ephemeroptera 83
8. Psocodea 85
9. Thysanoptera 105
10. Hemiptera 110
11. Hymenoptera 155
12. Neuroptera 257
13. Coleoptera 259
14. Trichoptera 293
15. Lepidoptera 302
16. Siphonaptera 353
17. Diptera 375
18. Arachnida 665
19. Chilopoda 857
20. Introduced insect orders 858
Glossary 859
Index 868
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