Resources for Week 4, February 9, 11, 13
The major groups of Neoptera and the "Polyneoptera"
REQUIRED READING
G&E, Chapter 7, pp 188-194
Order Overviews (List of taxa for !!! 2nd identification exam !!! and Characters for identifying "Orthopteroid" families.)
Plecoptera
REQUIRED READING
G&E, Chapter 7, pp 194-196
Tree of Life Plecoptera pages [a very nice site with resolution of relationships at the family and generic levels, very nice photographs of adults and nymphs. See especially the image gallary].
Bill Stark's Web Site [an excellent site, including access to the "Rolling Stonefly News," a newsletter for stonefly workers and enthusiasts and an image gallery of North American species].
Stonefly drumming audio files (courtesy of Dr. John Abbot, University of Texas). Isogenoides elongatus, Isogenoides olivaceus (Family Perlodidae).
NEW: Stonefly drumming audio and video files from Dr. John Sandberg's site, University of North Texas. Very nice site!
Embioptera
REQUIRED READING
G&E, Chapter 7, pp 196-199
Tree of Life Embioptera pages.
Zoraptera
REQUIRED READING
G&E, Chapter 7, pp 199-201
Tree of Life Zoraptera pages.
Orthoptera
REQUIRED READING
G&E, Chapter 7, pp 202-217
Tree of Life Orthoptera pages.
FYI
The Orthopterists' Society [see the Gallery for very nice images of Orthoptera and the Links for lots of useful and interesting information on Orthoptera and related orders, including regional keys to species. Caution: several of the links I tried on this site were broken].
Singing Insects of North America is an excellent site with keys to the families and genera of katydids and crickets, species lists, and distribution maps as well as recordings of songs.