Kurzmitteilung
A Russian Palaeoentomological View of Insect Phylogeny
Crowson, Roy A.
Entomologia Generalis Volume 7 Number 1 (1981), p. 105 - 108
veröffentlicht: Mar 30, 1981
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/7/1981/105
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Abstract
The evolutionary history of insects has been treated at some length in two books in recent years - Hennig’s «Die Stammesgeschichte der Insekten» [Waldemar Kramer; Frankfurt am Main 1969] and H. B. Boudreaux ’s «Arthropod Phylogeny with Special Reference to Insects» [John Wiley; New York 1979] - and treated in less detail in Manton’s «The Arthropoda. Habits, Functional Morphology and Evolution» [Clarendon Press; Oxford 1977]. All these works were written by single authors who were not primarily palaeontologists (though Hennig made some original studies in fossil Diptera); the fossil evidence was considered in all 3 books mainly through the writings and interpretations of specialist palaeo-entomologists. A new Russian work entitled (in Russian) «The Historical Development of the Class Insecta» [published as vol. 175 of Trudi Paleontologicheskovo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow 1980], edited by B. B. Rohdendorf & A. P. Raznitsin, differs from them in being written by a number of authors, all of them with first-hand knowledge of the fossils of the groups they deal with, and in basing its conclusions primarily on fossil evidence, rather than on Hennigian analysis of comparative data on modern insects. Like the Boudreaux work, it makes extensive reference to Hennig, but unlike it, explicitly rejects Hennig’s prescriptions for strict phylogenetic classification.