Ecomorphology of Cyclorrhaphan Larvae (Diptera)

• Main Author: Rotheray, Graham E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Zoological Monographs, 4
• Subjects: Entomology.; Animal ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal anatomy.; Animal Ecology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.

This book offers an overview of the larva of Diptera Cyclorrhapha. It first discusses the principal forms, functions and roles of larvae, and then evaluates feeding, locomotion and respiration in larval saprophages, phytophages and zoophages as keys to understanding and predicting larval morphology....

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Cyclorrhaphan larva
• Chapter 2: Acquiring data: targets, problems and solutions
• Chapter 3: Forms, functions and names
• Chapter 4: Mobility and locomotion
• Chapter 5: Respiration
• Chapter 6: Saprophagy, developing on decay
• Chapter 7: Phytophagy and mycophagy
• Chapter 8: Zoophagy: predation and parasitism
• Chapter 9: The Cyclorrhaphan larva as a data source.