Insects
Their Spermatozoa and Phylogeny
Barrie G.M. Jamieson: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Romano Dallai : University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Bjorn A. Afzelius: Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
ISBN 978-1-57808-040-3; 1999; 564 Pages; US $ 161.30      Buy Now


This volume is a compilation of critical resume of all research reports on the ultrastructure of insect spermatozoa, the literature of which is large and scattered. There are more than one hundred works on the spermatozoa of the Diptera alone.

Contents:
. Development of the Insect Spermatozoon: Spermatogenesis
. The Fertilizing Spermatozoon
. Phylogeny of the Hexapod Orders
. Superclass Hexapoda
. Class Insecta (Ectognathous Hexapods) Subclass Apterygota
. Subclass Pterygota (Introduction)
. Infraclass Palaeoptera
. Infraclass Neoptera
. Orthoptera and Phasmatodea
. Orders Embioptera, Dermaptera, Plecoptera, and Grylloblattodea
. The Hemipteroid (Rhynchotoid) Orders
. The Hemipteroid Orders: Hemiptera
. Suborder Heteroptera
. The Endopterygota (Holometabola)
. Order Coleoptera
. Orders Mecoptera and Siphonaptera
. Orders Diptera and Strepsiptera
. Superorder Amphiesmenoptera
. Order Hymenoptera
. Taxonomic Summary and Phylogenetic Analysis
. References
. Subject and Taxonomic Index