New developments in the biology of Chrysomelidae
By: edited by P. Jolivet, J.A. Santiago-Blay, and M. Schmitt.
Contributors: Jolivet, Pierre, 1922-; Santiago-Blay, J. A.; Schmitt, Michael, 1949-
Publisher: SPB Academic Pub.; Library Research Associates [distributor]
Published: 2004
Place of publication: The Hague, the Netherlands; Walden, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 803
Subjects: Chrysomelidae.
Other titles: Biology of Chrysomelidae
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Accompanying CD-ROM reproduces the cover, table of contents, list of contributors, preface, and foreword of book, and also includes full text of two papers for which only an abstract is found in the book.
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Table of contents: title: Relationships among the subfamilies of Chrysomelidae inferred from small subunit ribosomal DNA and morphology, with special emphasis on the relationship among the flea beetles and the Galerucinae / Catherine N. Duckett, Joseph J. Gillespie, and Karl M. Kjer; title: Resources for a phylogenomic approach in leaf beetle (Coleoptera) systematics / Jesús Gómez-Zurita ... [et al.]; title: The evolution of cucurbitacin pharmacophagy in rootworms : insight from Luperini paraphyly / Joseph J. Gillespie ... [et al.]; title: Ideas on the systematics of the genus Diabrotica Wilcox and other related leaf beetles / Astrid Eben and Alejandro Espinosa de los Monteros; title: Phylogeny of Afrotropical Monolepta and related taxa (Galerucinae) / Thomas Wagner; title: Competitive exclusion and sexual isolation between sympatric congeneric species of Timarcha and Cyrtonus (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) / Eduard Petitpierre; title: The ecology and population genetics of the blue and brassy willow beetles Phyllodecta (=Phratora) vulgatissima L. and P. vitellinae L. on United Kingdom willow (Salix) plantations / Angela Karp and Lori Peacock; title: A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Donacia (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in Japan, based on mitochondrial gene sequences / Teiji Sota and Masakazu Hayashi; title: The evolution of adaptations to plant secondary compounds in Chrysochus leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) / Susanne Dobler; title: Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Galerucella and related taxa / Christina Nokkala and Seppo Nokkala; title: Genetic differentiation and population structure in Metachroma labrale Blair, 1933, a Galápagos leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) / Peter Verdyck, H. Dhuyvetter and K. Desender; title: Ecology and evolution of New World Blepharida / Judith X. Becerra; title: Some considerations for the use of statistical methods in Chrysomelidae / Lee-Ann C. Hayek; title: Jumping flea beetles : structure and performance (Insecta, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae) / Michael Schmitt; title: Immatures of Hemisphaerota palmarum (Boheman), with discussion of the caudal processes and shield architecture in the tribe Hemisphaerotini (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) / Caroline S. Chaboo and Tam C. Nguyen; title: Immature stages and bionomy of some Indian species of Chiridopsis Spaeth (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) / Hemant V. Ghate ... [et al.]; title: Polymorphism and microtaxonomy in Chrysomelidae / Krishna K. Verma and T. Kalaichelvan; title: Geographical variation in Mecistomela marginata (Hispinae) / Viviane Grenha, Margarete V. de Macêdo, and Ricardo F. Monteiro; title: Modified antennae of Malaysian Galerucinae and its taxonomic significance / Mohamed S. Mohamedsaid; title: Adaptations of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from xeric regions / Pierre Jolivet; title: Fossils insects on the web, with emphasis on chrysomelids and remarks on the recognition of fossil fakes / Scott R. Anderson, Patrick R. Craig, and Jorge A. Santiago-Blay; title: Faunal changes in Donaciinae during the Quaternary in central Japan (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) / Masakazu Hayashi; title: Wanderbiltiana wawasita : a new species of flea beetle (Alticinae) from Dominican amber (Lower Oligocene to Lower Miocene) / Jorge A. Santiago-Blay ... [et al.]; title: Origin of Timarcha : trophic relationships between the Old and New World / George Poinar Jr. and Pierre Jolivet; title: Morphological and behavioral adaptations to movement on different leaf surfaces : studies with Cassidinae larvae / Lenice Medeiros, Danessa S. Boligon, and Gilson R.P. Moreira; title: Leaf mining chrysomelids / Jorge Santiago-Blay; title: Cassidinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) and Zingiberales : a review of the literature / Charles L. Staines; title: Ecology of selected species of Alticinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) and their hosts, Euphorbia spp. (Euphorbiales, Euphorbiaceae) in Eurasia / Luca Fornasari; title: Distribution and hosts of the pestiferous and other common Diabroticites from Argentina and southern South America : a geographic and systematic view / Guillermo Cabrera Walsh and Nora Cabrera; title: Flight in seed and leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Bruchidae, Chrysomelidae) / Michael L. Cox; title: The primitive Eumolpinae and the Gondwana hypothesis / Krishna K. Verma and Pierre Jolivet; title: Effects of the flea beetle Pedilia sirena Duckett (Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) on oviposition choice by the butterfly Heliconius hewitsoni (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) / Catherine N. Duckett; title: Biology and ecology of the mountainous genera Oreomela Jacobson, Xenomela Weise, and Crosita Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidea, Chrysomelina) / Igor K. Lopatin and O. Nesterova; title: Observations on the natural history, systematics, and phylogeny of the Criocerinae of Costa Rica and Panama / Fredric V. Vencl ... [et al.]; title: The biology of Laccoptera cicatricosa (Boheman, 1855) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) / Hugh D.C. Heron; title: Cydippa balyi Chapuis, 1875 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), an interesting galerucine from Australia rediscovered in the Northern Territory, with redescription and notes on its habitat and host plant / Ron Beenen and Trevor J. Hawkeswood; title: Biology of Chelymorpha constellata (Klug, 1829) (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) in sand dunes at Florianópolis, Island of Santa Catarina, southern Brasil / Sarita B. de Fáveri, Ana Cristina S. de Andrade, and Vera Lícia V. de Arruda; title: Morphology, systematics, and host plants of Palaeartic Donaciinae larvae / Andrzei O. Bieńkowski and Marina J. Orlova-Bieńkowskaja; title: The immature stages of the grape flea beetles Altica chalybea Illiger and A. woodsi Isely (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) / Laurent LeSage and Alicia Zmudzinska-Krzesinska; title: The genus Pepila Weise (Alticinae) in the region of Australia : distribution, ecology and biogeography / Maurizio Biondi and Paola D'Alessandro; title: Tundra-steppe leaf-beetle Chrysolina brunnicornis vrangeliani (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) : distribution, life history, and habitats / Olga A. Khruleva; title: Some aspects of the biology of the Aulacoscelinae (Chrysomelidae), with a description of three new species / Jorge A. Santiago-Blay; title: Ecology of the high mountain chrysomelid Timarcha lugens Rosenhauer (Chrysomelinae) / Adela González Megías, José María Gómez, and Francisco Sánchez Piñero; title: Biology of Phyllotreta (Alticinae), with emphasis on Hungarian and middle European species / Károly Vig; title: Ecology and management of the bean leaf beetle Cerotoma trifurcata / Wai-Ki Frankie Lam and Larry P. Pedigo; title: The solitary population wave, a physical phenomenon accompanying the introduction of a chrysomelid / Oleg V. Kovalev; title: Leaf beetles of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) / Dominique Mariau; title: Changes in the chrysomelid (Coleoptera) community over a 95-year period on a Maryland river island (USA) / Charles L. Staines; title: Population ecology of Fulcidax monstrosa (Chlamisinae) / Vivian Flinte and Margarete V. de Macêdo; title: Dynamic interaction between a leaf beetle, Galerucella nipponensis (Galerucinae) and an aquatic plant, Trapa japonica (Trapaceae) / Kousuke Ikeda and Fusao Nakasuji; title: Phenology of populations of tortoise beetles (Cassidinae) in Brazil / Flávia Nogueira-de-Sá, Lenice Medeiros, and Margarete V. de Macêdo; title: Diversity of aedeagus shape in Slovenian populations of Chrysolina purpurascens (Germar) (Chrysomelinae) / H. Kippenberg; title: Patterns in host-plant association and defensive toxins produced by neotropical chrysomeline beetles / Jacques M. Pasteels ... [et al.]; title: Sequestration of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in Oreina and Platyphora leaf-beetles : physiological, ecological, and evolutionary aspects / Jacques M. Pasteels and Thomas Hartmann; title: Ecological relevance of fecal matter in Chrysomelidae / Caroline Müller and Monika Hilker; title: Mate choice after intromission in spotted cucumber beetles / Douglas W. Tallamy; title: Male combat and mating behavior of Donacia crassipes F. and other chrysomelids (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae) / Alexander S. Konstantinov; title: Diversified reproductive strategies in Gonioctena (Chrysomelinae) leaf beetles / Shin-ichi Kudu and Eisuke Hasegawa; title: Tortoise beetle genitalia and demonstrations of a sexually selected advantage for flagellum length in Chelymorpha alternans (Chrysomelidae, Cassidini, Stolaini) / Viterbo Rodríguez, Donald M. Windsor, and William G. Eberhard; title: Observations on the natural history and reproductive biology of Leptinotarsa lacerata Stål in the Sierra de Huautla, Morelos, Mexico / Marcela Osorio-Beristáin ... [et al.]; title: New data on the biology of Phaedon fulvescens (Coleoptera, Chrysomelinae), a potential biological control agent on Rubus alceifolius (Rosaceae) / Thomas Le Bourgeois, Aurélien Goillot, and Alain Carrara; title: Biology and ecology of Zygogramma bicolorata Pallister, 1953 / Chandrashekara A. Viraktamath, Basavaraj S. Bhumannavar, and V.N. Patel.; title: Papers on accompanying CD-ROM: Leaf-mining chrysomelids ; Some aspects of the biology of the Aulacoscelinae Chapuis 1874 (Orsodacnidae or Chrysomelidae, sensu lato), with a description of seven new species of Janbechynea / Jorge A. Santiago-Blay.