Resources for Week 6, February 23, 25, 27

Paraneoptera - the hemipteroid orders

REQUIRED READING
G&E Chapter 8, pp 261

Tree of Life Paraneoptera (Hemipteroid Assemblage) pages.

Mouthparts of the paraneopteran orders, from Snodgrass, R.E. 1944. The feeding apparatus of biting and sucking insects affecting man and animals. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions, 104 (7): 1-113. Psocoptera, "Mallophaga," Anoplura, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera.

Order Overviews (List of taxa for 3rd Identification Exam and !!! Characters for identifying families of Hemiptera !!!).

Erwin, T.L. 1983. Tropical forest canopies: the last biotic frontier. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 29:14-19. (requires password to access).

MIDTERM: Download a copy here. Due date: TBA.

Psocoptera

REQUIRED READING
G&E Chapter 8, pp 261-271

Tree of Life Psocoptera pages. [Contains a new classification].
Psoco-Net, the Psocopterists' home page, based in Japan, has some useful links and a few images.

Phthiraptera

REQUIRED READING
G&E Chapter 8, pp 272-280

Tree of Life Phthiraptera pages.
Phthiraptera Central contains a lot of information about lice, including a litrature database and a specimen database (under construction).

Thysanoptera

REQUIRED READING
G&E Chapter 8, pp 280-287

Tree of Life Thysanoptera pages.

Hemiptera

REQUIRED READING
G&E Chapter 8, pp 287-330

Tree of Life Hemiptera pages. [See also the information on the 4 suborders Sternorrhyncha, Auchenorrhyncha, Coleorrhyncha [under construction], and Heteroptera].
Two additional web sites may be useful: Hemiptera* Web Pages from the USDA's Systematic Entomology Laboratory. Bugbios, has some nice photos of Hemiptera [this looks like an interesting site for the general enthusiast].