| Authors | Randall T. Schuh & Christiane Weirauch |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9780995749696 |
| Publisher | Siri Scientific Press |
| Pages | 800 |
| Size | 240 x 165 mm |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Images | 182 b/w photos & illustrations, 32 colour plates |
| Year published | 2020 |
The First Edition of “True Bugs of the World” presented a comprehensive review of heteropteran biology, morphology, and classification down to the subfamily level. In the intervening 24 years our knowledge of the Heteroptera has vastly increased. Almost 5000 new bug species have been described during this period, a 12–15% increase. Two new families, Curaliidae and Meschiidae, have been described, and the categorical rank of multiple family-group taxa has been revised. The use of cladistic methods through the application of more-user-friendly computer programs and of DNA-sequence data in phylogenetic analysis are now commonplace with a concomitant increase in our understanding of true-bug relationships. The study of fossil Heteroptera has blossomed in a way not seen since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Finally, a large body of literature now documents various aspects of the natural history of true bugs, ranging from chemical ecology to microbiomes, and establishing certain Heteroptera as model organisms for phenomena including aposematism, sexual conflict, and paternal care. All of these factors argued for an updated volume summarizing our general knowledge of the true bugs.
In preparing this Second Edition we have maintained an organization approach similar to that of the First Edition. The introductory chapters deal with issues from a historical and functional perspective, the major alteration of format involving the coalescence into a single chapter of all material dealing with heteropteran natural history. Following a key to infraorders, we present for the first time an extensive review of fossil Heteroptera. The systematics chapters, which comprise the remainder and preponderance of the work, focus almost exclusively on living Heteroptera. Taxa are grouped by infraorder, superfamily, family, subfamily, and in some cases tribe.
Following from the First Edition, we present diagnoses and information on the history of classification for suprafamilial taxa, all families, and for many subfamilies and tribes, as well as sections on Specialized Morphology, Natural History, and Distribution and Faunistics. We continue to present information on numbers of described taxa. The volume includes figures for general morphology and for details of structure in all family-group taxa, as well as 32 color plates of habitus images and 2 of living bugs; 3020 papers are cited, a 230% increase over the First Edition. The majority of the newly cited papers have been published since 1993 when the literature search for the First Edition stopped. This seminal volume will appeal to anyone interested in Heteroptera, including for use as a general reference, specialized textbook, aid to family-group identification, and a gateway to the ever-expanding literature on the group.
Contents
Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
Chapter 1. A History of the Study of the Heteroptera
Chapter 2. Major Workers on the Heteroptera
Chapter 3. Sources of Information
Chapter 4. Collecting, Preserving, and Documenting
Chapter 5. Natural History of True Bugs
• Habitat Types
• Feeding Behaviors
• Microbial Associates
• Wing Polymorphism and Flightlessness
• Defensive Strategies: Aposematism, Mimicry, and Camouflage
• Reproductive Behaviors and Strategies
Chapter 6. Invasive and Economically Important Heteroptera
Chapter 7. Historical Biogeography
Chapter 8. General Morphology
Systematics
Chapter 9. HETEROPTERA: Diagnosis, Key to Infraorders
Chapter 10. Fossil Heteroptera
Chapter 11. Nepomorpha
Chapter 12. NEPOIDEA
Chapter 13. Belostomatidae
Chapter 14. Nepidae
Chapter 15. OCHTEROIDEA
Chapter 16. Gelastocoridae
Chapter 17. Ochteridae
Chapter 18. CORIXOIDEA
Chapter 19. Corixidae
Chapter 20. CIBARIOPECTINATA
Chapter 21. Potamocoridae
Chapter 22. NAUCOROIDEA
Chapter 23. Aphelocheiridae
Chapter 24. Naucoridae
Chapter 25. NOTONECTOIDEA
Chapter 26. Notonectidae
Chapter 27. Helotrephidae
Chapter 28. Pleidae
Chapter 29. Gerromorpha
Chapter 30. MESOVELOIDEA
Chapter 31. Mesoveliidae
Chapter 32. HEBROIDEA
Chapter 33. Hebridae
Chapter 34. HYDROMETROIDEA
Chapter 35. Hydrometridae
Chapter 36. Macroveliidae
Chapter 37. Paraphrynoveliidae
Chapter 38. GERROIDEA
Chapter 39. Hermatobatidae
Chapter 40. Gerridae
Chapter 41. Veliidae
Chapter 42. Dipsocoromorpha
Chapter 43. Trichotonannidae
Chapter 44. Ceratocombidae
Chapter 45. Dipsocoridae
Chapter 46. Stemmocryptidae
Chapter 47. Hypsipterygidae
Chapter 48. Schizopteridae
Chapter 49. Enicocephalomorpha
Chapter 50. Aenictopecheidae
Chapter 51. Enicocephalidae
Chapter 52. GEOHETEROPTERA
Chapter 53. Leptopodomorpha
Chapter 54. LEPTOPODOIDEA
Chapter 55. Leptopodidae
Chapter 56. Omaniidae
Chapter 57. SALDOIDEA
Chapter 58. Aepophilidae
Chapter 59. Saldidae
Chapter 60. TERHETEROPTERA
Chapter 61. Cimicomorpha
Chapter 62. REDUVIOIDEA
Chapter 63. Pachynomidae
Chapter 64. Reduviidae
Chapter 65. Chapter MICROPHYSOIDEA
Chapter 66. Joppeicidae
Chapter 67. Microphysidae
Chapter 68. NABOIDEA
Chapter 69. Medocostidae
Chapter 70. Nabidae
Chapter 71. Velocipedidae
Chapter 72. CIMICOIDEA
Chapter 73. Anthocoridae
Chapter 74. Cimicidae
Chapter 75. Curaliidae
Chapter 76. Lasiochilidae
Chapter 77. Lyctocoridae
Chapter 78. Plokiophilidae
Chapter 79. Polyctenidae
Chapter 80. MIROIDEA
Chapter 81. Thaumastocoridae
Chapter 82. Miridae
Chapter 83. Tingidae
Chapter 84. Pentatomomorpha
Chapter 85. ARADOIDEA
Chapter 86. Aradidae
Chapter 87. Termitaphididae
Chapter 88. TRICHOPHORA
Chapter 89. IDIOSTOLOIDEA
Chapter 90. Henicocoridae
Chapter 91. Idiostolidae
Chapter 92. PENTATOMOIDEA
Chapter 93. Acanthosomatidae
Chapter 94. Canopidae
Chapter 95. Cydnidae
Chapter 96. Dinidoridae
Chapter 97. Lestoniidae
Chapter 98. Megarididae
Chapter 99. Pentatomidae
Chapter 100. Phloeidae
Chapter 101. Plataspidae
Chapter 102. Saileriolidae
Chapter 103. Scutelleridae
Chapter 104. Tessaratomidae
Chapter 105. Urostylididae
Chapter 106. PYRRHOCOROIDEA
Chapter 107. Largidae
Chapter 108. Pyrrhocoridae
Chapter 109. COREOIDEA
Chapter 110. Alydidae
Chapter 111. Coreidae
Chapter 112. Hyocephalidae
Chapter 113. Rhopalidae
Chapter 114. Stenocephalidae
Chapter 115. LYGAEOIDEA
Chapter 116. Artheneidae
Chapter 117. Berytidae
Chapter 118. Blissidae
Chapter 119. Colobathristidae
Chapter 120. Cryptorhamphidae
Chapter 121. Cymidae
Chapter 122. Geocoridae
Chapter 123. Heterogastridae
Chapter 124. Lygaeidae
Chapter 125. Malcidae
Chapter 126. Meschiidae
Chapter 127. Ninidae
Chapter 128. Oxycarenidae
Chapter 129. Pachygronthidae
Chapter 130. Piesmatidae
Chapter 131. Rhyparochromidae
Literature Cited
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
Color plates
