Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates
Volume 3: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda

Focuses on freshwater invertebrates, including aquatic insects and springtails (Collembola) of South America, Central America and Antarctica

Neusa Hamada (Edited by), James H. Thorp (Edited by), D. Christopher Rogers (Edited by)

9780128042236

Hardback, published 16 November 2018

836 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 4.2 cm, 2.49 kg

Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates, Fourth Edition: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda, Volume Three, provides a guide for identifying and evaluating a key subphylum, hexapoda, for Central America, South America and the Antarctic. This book is essential for anyone working in water quality management, conservation, ecology or related fields in this region, and is developed to be the most modern and consistent set of taxonomic keys available. It is part of a series that is designed to provide a highly comprehensive, current set of keys for a given bioregion, with all keys written in a consistent style.

1. Introduction 2. Collembola 3. Ephemeroptera 4. Plecoptera 5. Orthoptera 6. Blattodea 7. Hemiptera 8. Megaloptera 9. Neuroptera 10. Trichoptera 11. Lepidoptera 12. Hymenoptera 13. Mecoptera 14. Odanata Introduction 15. Coleoptera Introduction 16. Diptera Introduction

Subject Areas: Animal ecology [PSVS], Plant ecology [PSTS], Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF]