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THE PLACE OF CLASSICAL TAXONOMY IN MODERN SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ORTHOPTEROID INSECTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

D. Keith McE. Kevan
D. Keith McE. Kevan
Affiliation:
Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, and Department of Entomology, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
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The nature of systematics and its fundamental importance to other branches of biology have already been ably discussed by such authors as Simpson (1961) and Mayr (1963, 1969). Thus, in defining systematic entomology, we may paraphrase Simpson (1961): Systematic entomology is the scientific study of the kinds and diversity of insects and associated arthropods and any and all [biological] relationships among them. “Modern” merely implies current and recent, not avant-garde, although this is not excluded.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 105 , Issue 9 , September 1973 , pp. 1211 - 1222
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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