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Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publication Date
2005
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English
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1. Mastigoproctus giganteus (the vinegaroon)
2. Vonones sayi (a harvestman)
3. Leiobunum nigripalpi (a daddylonglegs)
4. Vejovis spinigerus (the striped tail scorpion)
5. Peucetia viridans (the green lynx spider)
6. Scolopendra heroes (the giant Sonoran centipede)
7. Orphnaeus brasilianus (a geophilid centipede)
8. Floridobolus penneri (the Florida scrub millipede)
9. Apheloria kleinpeteri (a polydesmid millipede)
10. Polyzonium rosalbum (a polyzoniid millipede)
11. Glomeris marginata (a pill millipede)
12. Polyxenus fasciculatus (a bristle millipede)
13. Eurycotis floridana (the Florida woods cockroach)
14. Periplaneta australasiae (the Australian cockroach)
15. Deropeltis wahlbergi (a blattid cockroach)
16. Diploptera punctata (the Pacific beetle cockroach)
17. Doru taeniatum (an earwig)
18. Nasutitermes exitiosus (a termite)
19. Oreophoetes peruana (a walkingstick)
20. Anisomorpha buprestoides (the two-stirped walkingstick)
21. Romalea guttata (the eastern lubber grasshopper)
22. Chelinidea vittiger (a leaf-footed bug)
23. Apiomerus flaviventris (a reduviid bug)
24. Abedus herberti (a giant water bug)
25. Aphis nerii (the oleander aphid)
26. Prociphilus tessellatus (the woolly alder aphid)
27. Ormenaria rufifascia (a flatid planthopper)
28. Prosapia bicincta (the two-lined spittlebug)
29. Dactylopius confusus (a cochineal bug)
30. Metaleurodicus griseus (a whitefly)
31. Ceraeochrysa cubana (a green lacewing)
32. Ceraeochrysa smithi (a green lacewing)
33. Chrysopa slossonae (a green lacewing)
34. Galerita lecontei (a ground beetle)
35. Brachinus (many species) (bombardier beetles)
36. Dineutus hornii (a whirligig beetle)
37. Thermonectus marmoratus (a predaceous diving beetle)
38. Necrodes surinamensis (the red-lined carrion beetle)
39. Creophilus maxillosus (the hairy rove beetle)
40. Chauliognathus lecontei (a soldier beetle)
41. Photinus ignitus and Photuris versicolor (fireflies)
42. Clopteron reticulatum (the banded net-winged beetle)
43. Alaus myops (the eyed elater)
44. Acmaeodera pulchella (the flat-headed baldcypress sapwood borer)
45. Cycloneda sanguinea (a ladybird beetle)
46. Epilachna varivestis (the Mexican bean beetle)
47. Epicauta (an unidentified species)
48. Neopyrochroa flabellata (a fire-colored beetle)
49. Adelium percatum (a darkling beetle)
50. Bolitotherus cornutus (the forked fungus beetle)
51. Eleodes longicollis (a darkling beetle)
52. Trichiotinus rufobrunneus (a scarab beetle)
53. Hemisphaerota cyanea (a tortoise beetle)
54. Gratiana pallidula (a tortoise beetle)
55. Plagiodera versicolora (the imported willow leaf beetle)
56. Dalcerides ingenita (a dalcerid moth)
57. Litoprosopus futilis (the palmetto borer moth)
58. Schizura unicornis (the unicorn caterpillar moth)
59. Calindoea trifascialis (a thyridid moth)
60. Ypsolopha dentella (the European honeysuckle leaf roller)
61. Nemoria outina (a geometrid moth)
62. Utetheisa ornatrix (the rattlebox moth)
63. Automeris io (the io moth)
64. Eurytides marcellus (the zebra swallowtail butterfly)
65. Pieris rapae (the cabbage butterfly)
66. Danaus plexippus (the monarch butterfly)
67. Perga affinis (a pergine sawfly)
68. Camponotus floridanus (a carpenter ant)
69. Apis mellifera (the honey bee).
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