Tiger Beetles. The Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity of the Cicindelids

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Front cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 14 Why Study Tiger Beetles?......Page 20 On Whose Shoulders Are We Standing?......Page 22 How Valuable Are Tiger Beetles for Scientific Studies?......Page 23 What Is Unique about Tiger Beetles?......Page 28 Life Cycle Stages......Page 47 The Classification of Cicindelidae......Page 56 The Evolution of Diversity......Page 70 What Is a Species?......Page 81 Why Do We Care about Species?......Page 89 Chromosomes and Sex Cells......Page 126 Chromosome Evolution and Speciation......Page 136 Biogeography......Page 138 Why Are There More Species in Some Places Than in Others?......Page 139 Where Did Tiger Beetles Come from and How Did They Get There?......Page 150 Surviving the Elements......Page 162 Tiger Beetles in Their Physical Habitats......Page 165 Maintaining a Constant Internal Environment......Page 166 Responding to Longer Term Environmental Changes......Page 174 Evolutionary Ramifications......Page 187 Finding and Courting Mates......Page 190 Sexual Selection and the Logic of Female Choice......Page 192 Mating and Reproduction......Page 193 Escaping and Avoiding Enemies......Page 202 Who Is the Enemy?......Page 204 Antipredator Characters......Page 208 Multiple Antipredator Defenses......Page 211 Defense Chemicals — Local Adaptation or Historical Coincidence?......Page 215 Coping with Competitors......Page 221 Food and Foraging Behavior......Page 222 How Do Tiger Beetles Confront Competition?......Page 227 Are There Patterns of Species Co-occurrence within a Community?......Page 232 The Species Radiation of Tiger Beetles: What Promotes Diversification?......Page 238 Economics and Conservation......Page 248 Economic Use......Page 249 Conservation......Page 250 Cross-Taxon Comparisons and the Problem of Statistical Autocorrelations......Page 253 Molecular Studies and Conservation......Page 260 Future Studies and Synthesis......Page 272 Studying Distributional Patterns......Page 273 The Need for Studying Subspecies......Page 274 Global Comparisons......Page 276 Updating Reconstructed Phylogenies and the Impact on Their Predictive Powers......Page 277 Chaetotaxy and Integrative Biology......Page 278 Conclusions......Page 281 Appendix A. Observing and Collecting Tiger Beetles......Page 284 Appendix B. Natural History of the Major Tiger Beetle Genera of the World......Page 296 Literature Cited......Page 334 Taxonomic Index......Page 360 Subject Index......Page 365 Back cover......Page 371 Color Plates......Page 100