Insect Mouthparts: Form, Function, Development and Performance

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
 Introduction: Ecological Importance of Insect Feeding  (Harald W. Krenn)....Pages 1-7
 Form and Function of Insect Mouthparts  (Harald W. Krenn)....Pages 9-46
 Fluid-Feeding Mouthparts  (Harald W. Krenn)....Pages 47-99
 Suspension and Filter Feeding in Aquatic Insects  (Donald A. Yee, Michael G. Kaufman)....Pages 101-125
 Theme and Variation in the Development of Insect Mouthparts  (David R. Angelini, Frank W. Smith)....Pages 127-174
 The Early Evolution of Biting–Chewing Performance in Hexapoda  (Alexander Blanke)....Pages 175-202
 The Generalized Feeding Apparatus of Cockroaches: A Model for Biting and Chewing Insects  (Tom Weihmann, Benjamin Wipfler)....Pages 203-262
 Physical Determinants of Fluid-Feeding in Insects  (Konstantin G. Kornev, Peter H. Adler)....Pages 263-314
 Hierarchical Microstructures and Functions of the Lepidopteran Proboscis Cuticle  (Matthew S. Lehnert, Qi-Huo Wei)....Pages 315-334
 Comparative Functional Morphology of Ant Mouthparts and Significance for Liquid Food Intake  (Jürgen Paul, Flavio Roces)....Pages 335-359
 From Chewing to Sucking via Phylogeny—From Sucking to Chewing via Ontogeny: Mouthparts of Neuroptera  (Dominique Zimmermann, Susanne Randolf, Ulrike Aspöck)....Pages 361-385
 Structure and Evolution of Mouthparts in Coleoptera  (Rolf Georg Beutel, Margarita Yavorskaya)....Pages 387-418
 What’s on the Menu: Floral Tissue, Pollen or Nectar? Mouthpart Adaptations of AnthophilousBeetles to Floral Food Sources  (Florian Karolyi)....Pages 419-442
 Evolution of the Multifunctional Mouthparts of Adult Vespidae  (Volker Mauss, Kenneth Kuba, Harald W. Krenn)....Pages 443-478
 Superlong Proboscises as Co-adaptations to Flowers  (Julia A.-S. Bauder, Florian Karolyi)....Pages 479-527
 Morphogenesis of Piercing Stylets in Hemiptera  (Roman Rakitov)....Pages 529-566
 The Fossil Record of Insect Mouthparts: Innovation, Functional Convergence, and Associations with Other Organisms  (Conrad C. Labandeira)....Pages 567-671
Back Matter ....Pages 673-683