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Section 1. Diversity and Evolution: Introduction; Species: their natureand number; How many species of insects?; Reconstructing evolutionaryhistory; Section 2. Fossil Insects: Insect fossilization; Dating and ages;Major fossil Insect deposits; Section 3. Arthropods and the Origin ofInsects: Onychophora: the velvet-worms; Tardigrada: the water-bears;Arthropoda: the jointed animals; Hexapoda: the six-legged arthropods; Section4. The insects: Morphology of insects; Relationships among the insect orders;Section 5. Earliest insects: Archaeognatha: the bristletails; Zygentoma: thesilverfish; +Rhyniognatha; Section 6. Insects Take to the Skies: Pterygota,Wings, and flight; Ephemeroptera: the mayflies; +Palaeodictyopterida: extinctbeaked insects; Odonatoptera: dragonflies and early relatives; Neoptera;Section 7. The Polyneopterous Orders: Plecopterida; Orthopterida; Plecoptera:the stoneflies; Embiodea: the webspinners; Zoraptera: the Zorapterans;Orthoptera: the grasshoppers, crickets, and kin; Phasmatodea: the stick- andleaf insects; +Titanoptera: the titanic crawlers; +Caloneurodea: theCaloneurodeans; Dermaptera: the earwigs; Grylloblattodea: the ice crawlers;Mantophasmatodea: the African rock crawlers; Dictyoptera; Blattodea: theroaches; Citizen roach: the termites; Mantodea: the mantises; Section 8. TheParaneopteran Orders: Psocoptera: the 'bark'lice; Phthiraptera: the truelice; Fringe wings: Thysanoptera (thrips); The sucking bugs: Hemiptera;Section 9. The Holometabola: problematic fossil orders; The origins ofcomplete metamorphosis; On wings of lace: Neuropterida; Section 10.Coleoptera: early fossils and overview of past diversity; Archostemata;Adephaga; Myxophaga; Polyphaga; Strepsiptera: the enigmatic order; Section11. Hymenoptera: Ants, Bees, and Other Wasps: The Euhymenoptera andparasitism; Aculeata; Evolution of insect sociality; Section 12. Antliophora:Scorpionflies, Flies, and Fleas: Mecopterida: mecopterans and relatives;Siphonaptera: the fleas; Evolution of ectoparasites and blood-feeders;Diptera: the true flies; Section 13. Amphiesmenoptera: The Caddisflies andLepidoptera: Trichoptera: the caddisflies; Lepidoptera: the moths andbutterflies; Section 14. Insects Become Modern: Cretaceous and TertiaryPeriods: The Cretaceous; flowering of the world: the Angiosperm Radiations;Plant sex and insects: insect pollination; Radiations of Phytophagousinsects; Austral arthropods: remnants of Gondwana?; Insects, massextinctions, and the K/T boundary; The tertiary; Mammalian radiations;Pleistocene dispersal and species lifespans; Island faunas; Section 15.Epilogue: Why so many insect species?; The future; Glossary; References;Index.