Abbott - Common Insects of Texas and Surrounding States: A Field Guide

Number Seventy-oneThe Corrie Herring Hooks Series COMMON INSECTS OF TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES A FIELD GUIDE JOHN ABBOTT AND KENDRA ABBOTT University of Texas PressAustin Copyright 2020 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved First edition, 2020 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp-form Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Abbott, John C., 1972 author. | Abbott, Kendra, author. Title: Common insects of Texas and surrounding states : a field guide / John Abbott and Kendra Abbott. Description: First edition. | Series: The Corrie Herring Hooks series ; no. 71 | Includes bibliographical references and index. 71 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020007556 ISBN 978-1-4773-1035-9 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-4773-2235-2 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4773-2237-6 (ebook other) Subjects: LCSH: InsectsTexasIdentification. Classification: LCC QL466 .A23 2020 | DDC 595.709764dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020007556 doi:10.7560/310359 Contents Key to Color Groupings Wingless, Soil-dwelling Hexapods p. 34 Aquatic Insects p. 44 Small Insect Orders p. 70 Orthopteroid Insects p. 120 Antlions, Lacewings, Dobsonflies, Snakeflies & Scorpionflies p. 160 Beetles p. 176 Flies p. 250 Butterflies & Moths p. 276 Ants, Bees, Wasps & Sawflies p. 358 Other Athropods p. 384 Glowworm Beetle (Phengodes sp.) Acknowledgments We have tried to create a unique guide to a diverse fauna that will hopefully serve a wide audience. 384 Glowworm Beetle (Phengodes sp.) Acknowledgments We have tried to create a unique guide to a diverse fauna that will hopefully serve a wide audience.

It was however not done alone. We have many influences, but would like to recognize particularly Eric Eaton and Ken Kaufmans Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadles Peterson Field Guides to Moths and Richard Bradleys Common Spiders of North America. We use them all often and tried to incorporate what we consider to be the best elements of each in this book. We would like to thank the following people for reviewing various chapters of this book and providing valuable feedback: David Baumgardner, Ernie Bernard, David Bowles, Jerry Cook, Christopher Dietrich, Dan Hardy, Joshua Jones, Boris Kondratieff, Joe Lapp, Katrina Menard, Jack Neff, John Oswald, Ed Riley, Chuck Sexton, John Stidham, Brandon Woo and Diane Young. Valerie Bugh, James Kennedy, and Benjamin Schwartz graciously read over the entire book for us and provided valuable comments and feedback. We are also thankful to Alysa Joaquin, Maryanne Rodriguez, and Diane Young who provided assistance with the collecting of specimens for us.

Charlie Covell and Andy Warren (McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity), Rachel Hawkins (Museum of Comparative Zoology), and Alex Wild (University of Texas Insect Collection) provided access and/or loaned us specimens needed to complete the book. The BugGuide.net and iNaturalist.org communities are a tremendous resource and collectively provide an amazing wealth of knowledge. Without help from the members of this community, this book would have certainly suffered. Many users on one or both of these sites assisted us in providing locations and identifications of species. We thank the many individuals that we have spent time with chasing bugs throughout Texas. This book would not have been possible without the many friendships we have forged in Texas over the years.