The arthropods of humans and domestic animals
Subtitle: a guide to preliminary identification
By: Alan Walker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall; Springer
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Arthropod pests -- Identification.; Arthropoda -- Identification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mites and ticks: acarina; title: Their biology as an aid to identification; title: Mites; title: Scab mites, mange mites and others: astigmata; title: Chiggers, follicle mites and others: prostigmata; title: Bird mites and others: mesostigmata; title: Beetle mites or oribatid mites: cryptostigmata; title: Ticks; title: Introduction to soft and hard ticks; title: General features; title: Life cycles; title: Insects: insecta; title: General introduction to the flies; title: Nematoceran flies; title: Brachyceran flies; title: Cyclorrhaphan flies; title: Lice: phthiraptera; title: Introduction to the lice; title: Sucking lice: anoplura.; title: Ischnoceran chewing lice; title: Amblyceran chewing lice; title: Fleas: siphonaptera; title: Introduction to the fleas; title: Blood sucking bugs: hemiptera; title: Triatomine bugs; title: Bed bugs: cimex; title: Other arthropods and methods; title: Other harmful arthropods; title: Scorpions; title: Whipscorpions; title: Spiders; title: Solpugids; title: Millipedes; title: Centipedes; title: Bees; title: Wasps and hornets; title: Ants; title: Beetles; title: Caterpillars; title: Moths; title: Fruit flies; title: Thrips; title: Crustaceans; title: Tongue worms; title: Delusions of infestation; title: Methods for identification; title: Collection; title: Fresh specimens for pathogen isolation, blood-meal tests and age-grading.; title: Preservation; title: Examination of specimens; title: Summary of clinical signs of direct parasitic damage caused by arthropods; title: Summary of diseases and causative pathogens commonly transmitted by arthropods.