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Insect Mouthparts

Form, Function, Development and Performance

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Editors:
  1. Harald W. Krenn

    1. Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  • The first comprehensive book about insect mouthparts
  • Includes information on functional types, biomechanics, evolution and developmental biology of insect mouthparts
  • Discusses various related topics, like feeding performance, palaeontology and larval mouthparts
  • Richly illustrated with SEM micrographs, colour photos and illustrations

Part of the book series: Zoological Monographs (ZM, volume 5)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.





Editors and Affiliations

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

    Harald W. Krenn

About the editor

​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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