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Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Odonata - Zygoptera

Illustrated Keys to Known Families, Genera, and Species in South America

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Charles W. Heckman

    1. Olympia Washington, USA

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  • A comprehensive overview of Zygoptera in South America
  • Features more than 760 hand drawn pen and ink drawings
  • Excellent possibility to accurately identify specimens
  • Extensive bibliography
  • Recommended text for entomologists

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects (ESAAI)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-10

  3. Section 3: Odonata

    Pages 11-15

  4. Section 3, Part 1: Zygoptera

    Pages 16-631

  5. Erratum

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    Pages 632-635

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 632-687
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About this book

This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil. The original goal was to include all genera known from South America and all species from Brazil, but for most groups, the scope was expanded to encompass all species in South America, and, in some cases, to include terrestrial species of orders that include both terrestrial and aquatic taxa. In no case is a taxonomic revision of any group undertaken, although recommendations for such revisions are included where appropriate, and the probable synonymy of nominal species still treated as valid in the literature is noted. Two different approaches will be employed according to the taxon being treated. For phylogenetic groups encompassing overwhelmingly or exclusively aquatic species, such as the orders Plecoptera and Ephemeroptera or the families Dytiscidae and Culicidae, keys are provided to distinguish all genera and species known to occur in South America. An effort has been made to include every identifiable species so that the user of the key can determine with reasonable certainty whether or not his specimen belongs to a species that has already been described or whether it is one that is not yet known to science. Where feasible, complete keys will be prepared for groups containing both aquatic and terrestrial species that do not encompass an extraordinarily large number of species. This has already been done for the order Collembola.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Olympia Washington, USA

    Charles W. Heckman

About the author

The author, Dr. Charles W. Heckman, has performed ecological research in Laos, Thailand, Germany, Brazil, and the United States. His publications include books on rice field ecology in Thailand and the Pantanal wetland in western Brazil, as well as many monographs and shorter publications on various aspects of biology and environmental sciences. He undertook the preparation of the Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects to produce a reference work with which researchers in South America can identify the species they encounter without having to first complete exhaustive searches of the literature, including papers published on several continents in different languages. The lack of such a tool has long impeded progress in faunal surveys, ecology, and other fields of science. Dr. Heckman’s extensive experience identifying aquatic insect species using less than optimal literature has allowed him to develop an ability for recognizing the morphological features most useful for distinguishing one species from another, and this ability comes to the aid of the users of his keys to the South American aquatic insect species.

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