Download or read book Perspectives In Insect Systematics written by V. C. Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 1986-09-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books for university students either treat cursorily or altogether overlook several vital aspects of insect systematics. Dr. Kapoor's work, markedly distinguished from the publicationsof the genre, is a highly methodized, painstaking effort to methodized, painstaking effort to comprehensively cover, in one volume, the taxonomic account, habits, habitat, biology and classiciation of each insect order. Highlighting for the first time the incalcuable harm that the immature forms cause to human beings, it systematically sets out the classification of both the adult and immature forms, wherever feasible. The author, recognising and also defining and classifying thirtyone distinct orders of insects, offers an indepth discussion of habits, habitat, bioolgy, and fossil history of each order. He incorporates dichotomous keys which in turn, are supported by labelled diagrams, showing the various characters employed in the keys.