Description: Having received lavish praise for the first volume of his definitive taxonomic handbook, Otte now turns his attention to the bandwing grasshoppers. Like its predecessor, this volume will be useful to scientists in agriculture, environmental assessment, biogeography, grassland ecology, and insect taxonomy. It will also appeal to amateur naturalists.
Brief description: Daniel Otte is Curator and Chair of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: Makes the user as confident of grasshopper identifications as he or she would be of bird identifications in using Peterson's Field Guide to the Birds... For North American insect species, this book has no equal.-- "Science"