The sand wasps : natural history and behavior / Howard E. Evans, Kevin M. O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Howard Ensign.

Contributor:

O'Neill, Kevin M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sphecidae.

Sphecidae--Behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Howard Evans was a brilliant ethologist and systematist, describing over 900 species in over a dozen entomology and natural history books. Upon his death in 2002, he left behind an unfinished manuscript, intended as an update of his classic 1966 work, The Comparative Ethology and Evolution of the Sand Wasps. O'Neill, Evans's former student and coauthor, has completed and enlarged this work into a tribe-by-tribe, species-by-species review of Bembicinae studies from the last four decades.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1 Introduction

2 Cool Wasps of the Alyssontini

3 Cicada and Hopper Hunters of the Gorytini

4 Brood Parasites of the Nyssonini

5 Stizini: A Mixed Tribe of Hopper Hunters and Brood Parasites

6 Bembicini: The Diverse New World Genera

7 Bembicini: The Cosmopolitan Genus Bembix

8 Comparative Ethology of Sand Wasps

Appendix. Research Wish List

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-326) and index.

ISBN:

9780674036611

0674036611

OCLC:

1013937985