Insect Mouthparts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Ecological Importance of Insect Feeding

   • Harald W. Krenn

   Pages 1-7

3. Form and Function of Insect Mouthparts

   • Harald W. Krenn

   Pages 9-46

4. Fluid-Feeding Mouthparts

   • Harald W. Krenn

   Pages 47-99

5. Suspension and Filter Feeding in Aquatic Insects

   • Donald A. Yee, Michael G. Kaufman

   Pages 101-125

6. Theme and Variation in the Development of Insect Mouthparts

   • David R. Angelini, Frank W. Smith

   Pages 127-174

7. The Early Evolution of Biting–Chewing Performance in Hexapoda

   • Alexander Blanke

   Pages 175-202Open Access

8. The Generalized Feeding Apparatus of Cockroaches: A Model for Biting and Chewing Insects

   • Tom Weihmann, Benjamin Wipfler

   Pages 203-262

9. Physical Determinants of Fluid-Feeding in Insects

   • Konstantin G. Kornev, Peter H. Adler

   Pages 263-314

10. Hierarchical Microstructures and Functions of the Lepidopteran Proboscis Cuticle

    • Matthew S. Lehnert, Qi-Huo Wei

    Pages 315-334

11. Comparative Functional Morphology of Ant Mouthparts and Significance for Liquid Food Intake

    • Jürgen Paul, Flavio Roces

    Pages 335-359

12. From Chewing to Sucking via Phylogeny—From Sucking to Chewing via Ontogeny: Mouthparts of Neuroptera

    • Dominique Zimmermann, Susanne Randolf, Ulrike Aspöck

    Pages 361-385

13. Structure and Evolution of Mouthparts in Coleoptera

    • Rolf Georg Beutel, Margarita Yavorskaya

    Pages 387-418

14. What’s on the Menu: Floral Tissue, Pollen or Nectar? Mouthpart Adaptations of Anthophilous Beetles to Floral Food Sources

    • Florian Karolyi

    Pages 419-442

15. Evolution of the Multifunctional Mouthparts of Adult Vespidae

    • Volker Mauss, Kenneth Kuba, Harald W. Krenn

    Pages 443-478

16. Superlong Proboscises as Co-adaptations to Flowers

    • Julia A.-S. Bauder, Florian Karolyi

    Pages 479-527

17. Morphogenesis of Piercing Stylets in Hemiptera

    • Roman Rakitov

    Pages 529-566

18. The Fossil Record of Insect Mouthparts: Innovation, Functional Convergence, and Associations with Other Organisms

    • Conrad C. Labandeira

    Pages 567-671

19. Back Matter

    Pages 673-683

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This is the first comprehensive book focusing on the form and function of insect mouthparts. Written by leading experts, it reviews the current knowledge on feeding types and the evolution of mouthparts and presents new research approaches. The richly illustrated articles cover topics ranging from functional morphology, biomechanics of biting and chewing, and the biophysics of fluid-feeding to the morphogenesis and genetics of mouthpart development, ecomorphology in flower-visiting insects as well as the evolution of mouthparts, including fossil records. Intended for entomologists and scientists interested in interdisciplinary approaches, the book provides a solid basis for future scientific work.

Chapter 6 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

• Biomechanics
• Blood Feeding Mouthparts
• Developmental Biology
• Feeding Organs
• Functional Morphology
• Insect
• Insect Feeding
• Mandibles
• Proboscis
• Suction Feeding
• Entomology
• Model invertebrates

• Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Harald W. Krenn

​Harald W. Krenn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Integrative Zoology at the University of Vienna (Austria), where he graduated in Zoology and Botany. His current research focuses on the evolutionary morphology of insect mouthparts, integrating new methods of functional morphology with feeding behaviour and ecology under evolutionary perspectives. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research on flower-visiting insects, which also involves fieldwork in the Austrian Alps, Neotropical rainforests and the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa.

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