Author : Zeno Payne Metcalf
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396786839
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Book Synopsis General Catalogue of the Homoptera, Vol. 6 by : Zeno Payne Metcalf
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Homoptera, Vol. 6 written by Zeno Payne Metcalf and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Catalogue of the Homoptera, Vol. 6: Cicadelloidea; Part 3; Gyponidae A catalogue of animals should serve practically all fields Of biology. It therefore should be as complete a listing of all the records of families, subfamilies, tribes, genera, species, and varieties as it is possible for the author to assemble. The nature Of the reference is Of the greatest importance. A student of zoogeography should be able to find a complete list of the regions inhabited by the various species. The student Of ecology should be able to find references to all that is known about the life history, food plants, and other pertinent data. The student of economic entomology should be able to check the histories of those species that are suspected of being injurious to plants. The plant disease specialist should be able to check the current nomenclature of the species that are disease vectors or are suspected Of being disease vectors. Those research workers studying mor phology, physiology, or genetics should be able to trace development in the field of their special interest. And finally, the student of taxonomy should be relieved of the burden of searching for p-ast recordings, and the journals which publish taxonomic papers should be relieved of publishing past records, and duplicating synonymy that is already well known. Thus, it would be necessary to record only synonymy which has been developed since the publication Of the catalogue. In this, as in other catalogues of the present series, the family is divided into genera, which are arranged in as nearly a phylogenetic order as our present knowledge will permit. The species are arranged under the genera in alphabetic sequence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
