The Greenland Entomofauna - An Identification Manual of Insects, Spiders and their Allies

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In The Greenland Entomofauna is a richly illustrated guide to the identification of the 1.200 species of Hexapods/Insects, Arachnids and Myriapods so far known to occur in Greenland.... Show more

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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