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Preface vii
Foreword by Quentin D. Wheeler ix
Acknowledgements xi

1 General introduction 1

PART 1 ENTOGNATHA 17
2 Order Collembola: the springtails 19
3 Order Diplura: the two-tailed or two-pronged bristletails 25
4 Order Protura: the proturans 27

PART 2 INSECTA - 'APTERYGOTA' 29
5 Order Archaeognatha or Microcoryphia: the bristletails 31
6 Order Zygentoma: the silverfi sh and fi rebrats 33

PART 3 PALAEOPTERA 35
7 Order Ephemeroptera: the mayflies or upwing flies 37
8 Order Odonata: the dragonflies and damselflies 42

PART 4 POLYNEOPTERA 49
9 Order Dermaptera: the earwigs 51
10 Order Dictyoptera: the cockroaches, termites and mantids 54
11 Order Orthoptera: the grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets 57
12 Order Phasmida: the stick-insects 64
13 Order Plecoptera: the stoneflies 67

PART 5 PARANEOPTERA 71
14 Order Hemiptera: the true bugs 73
15 Order Phthiraptera: the sucking and biting lice 106
16 Order Psocoptera: the booklice and barklice 112
17 Order Thysanoptera: the thrips 118

PART 6 ENDOPTERYGOTA 123
18 Order Coleoptera: the beetles 125
19 Order Diptera: the true flies 177
20 Order Hymenoptera: the ants, bees and wasps 226
21 Order Lepidoptera: the butterflies and moths 268
22 Order Mecoptera: the scorpionflies 308
23 Order Megaloptera: the alderflies 311
24 Order Neuroptera: the lacewings 313
25 Order Raphidioptera: the snakeflies 317
26 Order Siphonaptera: the fleas 319
27 Order Strepsiptera: the stylops 323
28 Order Trichoptera: the caddisflies or sedge flies 326

Index to taxa 337