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Family Coreidae - Leaffooted Bugs
Coreidae of Florida (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) By Richard M. Baranowski and James A. Slater
Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, 1986
Contents: Definition -- Feeding habits -- Composition of the Florida fauna -- Key to Florida Subfamilies of Coreidae -- Key to Florida Tribes of Coreinae -- Key to Florida Genera of Anisocelini -- Key to Florida Species of Leptoglossos -- Key to Florida Genera of Acanthocerini -- Key to Florida Genera of Nematoonini -- Key to Florida Genera of Corecorini -- Key to Florida Genera Coreini -- Key to Florida Genera of Pseudophloeinae -- List of associated plants.
Summary: Thirty-three genera and 120 species of Hemiptera, family Coreidae (commonly called the squash bug family), are known to occur in the United States and Canada. Almost the entire Florida fauna occurs above the ground both in the nymph and adult stage. They are predominantly sap suckers on stems and fruits. The variation of feeding habits causes some species to become destructive to specific crops. The most injurious species appear to be the squash bug Amasa tristis (which is frequently a serious pest on cultivated cucurbits), other species damage early varieties of citrus including tangerine and oranges.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 9 June, 2006 - 12:47pm |
Heteroptera of Eastern North America By W.S. Blatchley
The Nature Publishing Company, 1926
Great resource for true bugs of Eastern North America, although sorely out of date.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 25 June, 2007 - 8:09pm |
 The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers By L. R. Nault, J. G. Rodriguez
Wiley-Interscience, 1985
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Guide to the Study of Insects (and a Treatise on Those Injurious and Beneficial to Crops) By A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D.
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1878
A wealth of natural history information, although there are a lot of outdated names that require some detective work.
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The Songs of Insects By Lang Elliott, Wil Hershberger
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
A book/CD combination with excellent photos, brief species accounts, and recorded songs of 75 North American species--mostly orthoptera, but a few cicadas as well.
Contributed by Cotinis on 7 January, 2008 - 8:36pm |
Plant-Pollinator Interactions By Nickolas M. Waser and Jeff Ollerton (eds)
The University of Chicago Press, 2006
The editors and contributors of this volume cover important contemporary work in pollination biology, with historic glimpses back to early seminal work by Kölreuter, Sprengel, and others.
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Veterinary Entomology: Arthropod Ecoparasites of Veterinary Importance By Richard Wall and David Shearer
Springer, 1997
Paperback
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Evolution of the Insects By David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel
Wonderfully and copiously illustrated, communicates the current thinking on the evolution and systematics of these complex beings. Because I feel too small to review such a great book, but obviously think it should be prominent on our book list, I quote from Thomas Eisner's statement on the back cover: "A landmark contribution, not just to entomology and evolutionary biology, but to the life sciences as a whole...A must for naturalists, young and old. Truly a definitive work."
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