Insect Morphology?

[Ganoderma]

Does anyone know of good sites about insect morphology?

here is an ant one: http://www.hawaii.edu/ant/docs/ID/diagrams.html

wondering if there are good ones with clear labelling for other groups such as hoppers, beetles (i have seen soem o-k beetle ones), bees (similar to ants?), flies, phasmids, mantids etc... i am not too good at googling and can only find fairly elementary type websites. I am particularily interested in family specific websites. there are many i am interested in so no point listing exactly what i am looking for. it is mostly to have for reference for when i find something new.

also interested in keys to identification, so far i have been able to find what i have looked for (touch wood).

some more examples i have found:
tiger beetle: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/beauzay/tigerbeetles/tiger beetle morphology.htm
general: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/4015/morpology/#thorax
grasshopers: http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe88p204.pdf
cool site! beetle: http://digimorph.org/specimens/Lucanus_sp/

thanks for any help

 

[danread]

If you really want to get some information about insect morphology, i suggest getting a good book. Generally the information you get is much more reliable, and far easlier to digest, rather than trawling through websites. The best general introduction to entomology (with a few chapters on insect morphology) is "The insects: An outline of entomology" by P.J Gullen and P.S Cranston. You can get a preview of the book on google books here

Cheers,

 

[Ganoderma]

very nice! thanks for the suggestion. I will pick up a copy when i go back to canada, good biology stores there.

thanks