Front Cover -- Arthropod Collection and Identification Field and Laboratory Techniques -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Basic Tools and General Techniques -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Equipment and Collecting Methods -- 1.1 Equipment -- 1.2 Collecting Nets -- 1.3 Killing Containers and Agents -- 1.4 Aspirators and Suction Devices -- 1.5 Other Collection Devices -- 1.6 Traps -- 1.7 Baits, Lures, and Other Attractants -- 1.8 Pheromones and OtherAttractants -- 1.9 Collecting Aquatic Insects -- 1.10 Collecting Soil Insects -- 1.11 Collecting Ectoparasites -- 1.12 Collecting Regulated Insects -- 1.13 Collecting Insects for Pest Management Audits -- 1.14 Collecting Insects for Medico-Criminal Investigations -- 1.15 Rearing -- 1.16 Collecting Insects for Molecular Research -- Chapter 2. Agents for Killing and Preserving -- Chapter 3. Storage of Specimens -- 3.1 Temporary Storage -- 3.2 Mounting Specimens -- 3.3 Labeling -- 3.4 Care of the Collection -- 3.5. Packaging and Shipping Specimens -- Part 2: Classification of Insects and mites -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. Classification of Insects and Mites -- 4.1 Key to Classes of Arthropoda -- 4.2 Class Arachnida -- 4.3 Subclass Acari -- 4.4 Classes Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Pauropoda, and Symphyla -- 4.5 Class Crustacea -- 4.6 Class Hexopoda (Insecta) -- Chapter 5. Synopsis of Insect Orders -- 5.1 Subclass Class Entognatha: Primitive Wingless Hexapods -- 5.2. Subclass Ectognatha: Primitive Wingless Hexapods -- 5.3 Subclass Pterygota (Insecta): Winged and Secondarily Wingless Insects -- 5.4 Key to Orders of Hexapoda (Insects) -- Chapter 6. Descriptions of Hexapod Orders -- 6.1 Protura -- 6.2 Diplura -- 6.3 Collembola -- 6.4 Microcoryphia -- 6.5 Thysanura -- 6.6 Ephemeroptera -- 6.7 Odonata -- 6.8 Orthoptera -- 6.9 Blattodea -- 6.10 Mantodea -- 6.11 Phasmatodea -- 6.12 Gryllblattodea.

6.13 Dermaptera -- 6.14 Isoptera -- 6.15 Embiidina -- 6.16 Plecoptera -- 6.17 Psocoptera -- 6.18 Zoraptera -- 6.19 Mallophaga -- 6.20 Anoplura -- 6.21 Thysanoptera -- 6.22 Hemiptera -- 6.23 Homoptera -- 6.24 Coleoptera -- 6.25 Strepsiptera -- 6.26 Mecoptera -- 6.27 Neuroptera -- 6.28 Tricoptera -- 6.29 Lepidoptera -- 6.30 Diptera -- 6.31 Siphonaptera -- 6.32 Hymenoptera -- Summary -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- I Liquid Preservation Formulas -- II Guidelines for Mounting Small and Soft-Bodied Specimens (SEL) -- III Directory- State Extension Service Directors and Administrators -- IV Submitting Specimens for Identification (SEL) -- INDEX.