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No detailed description available for "Velvet Ants of North America".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (441 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780691253763
Series Statement:
Princeton Field Guides ; v.145
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=30661047
DDC:
595.79
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1-Introduction -- 1.1- What is a velvet ant? The indestructible insect! -- 1.2-What do velvet ants do? -- 1.3-Why should we care about velvet ants? -- 1.4-Where do velvet ants live? -- 1.5-How can I catch velvet ants? -- 1.6-How many velvet ants are out there? -- 1.7-How are velvet ants classified? -- 1.8-How to use this guide -- 1.9- Wait a minute, is this creature even a velvet ant? -- Chapter 2-Day Walkers-Diurnal Female Velvet Ants-Genera -- 2.1-Sphaeropthalminae: Dasymutillini -- 2.2-Sphaeropthalminae: Pseudomethocini -- 2.3-Sphaeropthalminae: Sphaeropthalmini -- 2.4-Sphaeropthalminae: Ephutini -- 2.5-Mutillinae: Trogaspidiini -- 2.6-Myrmosinae -- Chapter 3-Day Walkers-Diurnal Female Velvet Ants-Color Syndromes and Species -- 3.1-Desert Females Color Syndrome -- 3.2-Western Females Color Syndrome -- 3.3-Texan Females Color Syndrome -- 3.4-Madrean Females Color Syndrome -- 3.5-Timulla-like Females Color Syndrome -- 3.6-Eastern Females Color Syndrome -- 3.7-Cryptic Females Color Syndrome -- Chapter 4-Day Fliers-Diurnal Male Velvet Ants-Genera -- 4.1-Sphaeropthalminae: Dasymutillini -- 4.2-Sphaeropthalminae: Pseudomethocini -- 4.3-Sphaeropthalminae: Sphaeropthalmini -- 4.4-Sphaeropthalminae: Ephutini -- 4.5-Mutillinae: Trogaspidiini -- 4.6-Myrmosinae -- Chapter 5-Day Fliers-Diurnal Male Velvet Ants-Color Syndromes and Species -- 5.1-Desert Males Color Syndrome -- 5.2-Western Males Color Syndrome -- 5.3-Texan Males Color Syndrome -- 5.4-Ephuta-like Males Color Syndrome -- 5.5-Timulla-like Males Color Syndrome -- 5.6-Eastern Males Color Syndrome -- 5.7-Sphaeropthalma-like Males Color Syndrome -- Chapter 6-The Graveyard Shift-Nocturnal Velvet Ants -- 6.1-Introduction and genera -- 6.2-Structural characters-females -- 6.3-Structural characters-males -- Chapter 7-Mesoamerica.
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7.1-Ecosystems and ecoregions -- 7.2- Old and new friends-genera in Mesoamerica -- Velvet ant species in Mesoamerica -- 7.3- North American color syndromes in Mesoamerica -- 7.4- New color syndromes in Neotropical Mesoamerica -- 7.5-Caribbean clusters -- Chapter 8-Velvet Ants Around the World -- 8.1-Global diversity and distribution -- 8.2-Highlighted taxa -- 8.3-Examples around the World -- Chapter 9-Appendices -- 9.1-Morphology -- 9.2-Glossary -- 9.3-Keys, Keys, Keys -- References -- Formal acknowledgments -- Checklist of Diurnal Velvet Ants in the USA -- Index.
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