Carabid Beetles: Their Evolution, Natural History, and Classification

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction—Three Leaders....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Europe and the Circumpolar Area: Events and Personalities....Pages 9-15
Some Events and Trends in Study of Carabidae in North America....Pages 17-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Speciation Patterns and What They Mean....Pages 23-33
Rates of Taxonomically Significant Differentiation in Relation to Geographical Isolation and Habitat: Examples from a Study of the Nearctic Nebria fauna....Pages 35-57
Conspectus of Carabid Classification: History, Holomorphology, and Higher Taxa....Pages 63-111
Wing-folding Mechanisms of Beetles, with Special Reference to Investigations of Adephagan Phylogeny (Coleoptera)....Pages 113-180
Metathoracic Wing Structures as Phylogenetic Indicators in the Adephaga (Coleoptera)....Pages 181-191
Chemical Defense in Carabids and Its Bearing on Phylogeny....Pages 193-203
Contributions of Characters of Larvae to Systematics of Carabidae....Pages 205-208
Larvae of North American Carabidae with a Key to the Tribes....Pages 209-291
The Science of Biogeography with Relation to Carabids....Pages 295-317
The South American Carabid Fauna: Endemic Tribes and Tribes with African Relationships....Pages 319-325
Trans-Atlantic Dispersal: Several Examples of Colonization of the Gulf of Biafra by Middle American Stocks of Carabidae....Pages 327-330
Zoogeography of Rhysodini—Do Beetles Travel on Driftwood?....Pages 331-342
Existing Trans-Tropical and Southern Pathways of Dispersal for Carabidae....Pages 343-348
The Importance of Beringia as Reflected in the Present Fauna....Pages 349-354
The American Connection, Past and Present, as a Model Blending Dispersal and Vicariance in the Study of Biogeography....Pages 355-367
Investigations on Present Climatic Refugia in North America Through Studies on the Distributions of Carabid Beetles: Concepts, Methodology and Prospectus....Pages 369-381
The Theory of Glacial Refugia....Pages 385-394
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Quaternary Coleoptera Studies in North America: Past and Present....Pages 395-406
The Carabidae of the Glacial Refuge in the British Isles and their Contribution to the Post Glacial Colonization of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic Islands....Pages 407-424
Late Tertiary Carabid Fossils from Alaska and the Canadian Archipelago....Pages 425-445
Front Matter....Pages 447-447
Relationships between Annual and Daily Rhythms, Climatic Demands and Habitat Selection in Carabid Beetles....Pages 449-470
Mortality Rates of the Mobile and Immobile Stages in the Life-Cycle of Carabids....Pages 471-478
A Review of the Natural History and Evolution of Ectoparasitoid Relationships in Carabid Beetles....Pages 479-484
The Occurrence and Importance of Ground Beetles in Agricultural and Surrounding Habitats....Pages 485-505
Carabid Beetles and Pollution....Pages 507-521
Riparian Carabid Guilds—a Spontaneous Question Generator....Pages 525-537
Thoughts on the Evolutionary History of Ground Beetles: Hypotheses Generated from Comparative Faunal Analyses of Lowland Forest Sites in Temperate and Tropical Regions....Pages 539-592
Front Matter....Pages 593-593
Applications of Computer Techniques to the Study of Ground Beetle Natural History, Systematics, and Zoogeography....Pages 595-597
Epilogue....Pages 599-618
Back Matter....Pages 619-635