Chapter 24 Web Links

Chapter 24 The Hexapods and Myriapods: Terrestrial Triumphs

Myriopods

Introduction to the Myriapoda. University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. Links to the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and more on morphology of the Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Symphyla, and Pauropoda. Each site typically includes at least one picture of a member of the taxon.

Insects

Introduction to the Uniramia. University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. Links to the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and more on morphology.

Systematics of the Uniramia 2. University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. Links to many individual orders of insects, such as the siphonapterans, coleopterans, lepidopterans, and dipterans. Links to the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and more on morphology.

Introduction to the Parainsecta. Springtails and the proturans. University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. Links to the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and more on morphology.

Insecta. Arizona's Tree of Life Web Page. Pictures, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, references on insects. Links to paleopterygous and neopterygous insects.

UD General Key Insects. This interactive key from the University of Delaware combines a dichotomous key with beautiful photographs and photomicrographs to allow keying of insects to the ordinal level. When the insect is identified, information on the order is given, complete with further links for more information, as well as gorgeous pictures of the insect.

Beetles. This is a site devoted entirely to beetles. In addition to seeing photographs, you learn how beetles fly and navigate.

Coleopterists Society. Links to information about the Society, web sites, beetle conservation, and more.

Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes. Learn to cook banana worm bread, bug blox, and chocolate chirpie chip cookies. Insects can be nutritious and delicious!

Insect Drawings. Cool old lithographs of insects- about 60 years old.

Insects on WWW. More links (over 6000) than you could ever have time to peruse, from Virginia Tech.

Entomology on WWW. A huge site from Colorado State University with many links.

Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources. Many links to further information.

Roach Dissection. From the University of Minnesota. Unlabeled photos.

Grasshopper Dissection Guide. A guide only, no photographs or diagrams, yet there is much material on taxonomy, and description of structure and function.

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