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Some Milestones in the History of Insect Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Clarence E. Mickel
Clarence E. Mickel
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University of Minnesota
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Our present day concepts of the classification of insects are the result of a long period of development in the observations and thinking of the early naturalists, zoologists, and in more recent times, the more specialized entomologists. We are now so far removed from the original concepts on which the early classifications were based that many of us fail to realize that the systematic arrangement of animals, and particularly the invertebrates, was long a difficult and complicated problem which gave risk to much confusion. It may, therefore, be profitable as well as interesting to review the development of insect classification with respect to the ideas that have had a profound influence on the subject, and the men who have proposed these ideas and exerted the greatest influence. So, I propose to attempt to examine, evaluate and report to you some of the more important ideas and episodes in the development of this phase of insect taxonomy.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , February 1955 , pp. 57 - 66
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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