UF Book of Insect Records


Department of Entomology & Nematology University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0620

The University of Florida Book of Insect Records names insect champions and documents their achievements. Each chapter deals with a different category of record. Those who are interesting in augmenting or improving this collection of insect records are invited to contribute.

Newest chapter: Largest

In the Table of Contents below, records are listed in the order in which they were added. They are also indexed by subject, and author.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Fastest Flier	J.H. Byrd
Chapter 2	Greatest Host Range	Richard A. Worth
Chapter 3	Longest Diapause	Marcos R. de Faria
Chapter 4	Most Tolerant of Cold	Jason P.W. Hall
Chapter 5	Most Tolerant of Desiccation	Kerri Schwarz
Chapter 6	Shortest Generation Time	Tang Li
Chapter 7	Smallest Eggs	Varsovia E. Cevallos
Chapter 8	Most Spectacular Mating	Doug Sieglaff
Chapter 9	Fastest Wing Beat	C.W. Scherer
Chapter 10	Least Specific Sucker of Vertebrate Blood	L. M. A. Okedi
Chapter 11	Longest Insect Migration	Christopher Tipping
Chapter 12	Longest Life Cycle	Yong Zeng
Chapter 13	Most Instars	B.R. Sojack
Chapter 14	Most Parental Sharing of Brood Care	Kevina Vulinec
Chapter 15	Resistant to Most Insecticides	Barbra Larson Vasquez
Chapter 16	Shortest Sexual Life Cycle	Likui Yang
Chapter 17	Lowest Lifetime Fecundity	Bianca Cecilie Nygård
Chapter 18	Highest Lifetime Fecundity	Henning Brueland
Chapter 19	Adapted to Greatest Depths	A.A. Akers
Chapter 20	Least Oxygen Dependent	Andy Rasmussen
Chapter 21	Most Heat Tolerant	Van Sherwood
Chapter 22	Most Saline Tolerant	Dina Richman
Chapter 23	Most Toxic Venom	W.L. Meyer
Chapter 24	Loudest	John M. Petti
Chapter 25	Greatest Host Specificity	G.H. Schneider
Chapter 26	Largest Parasitoid Brood	Juan Manuel Alvarez
Chapter 27	Largest Swarm	Hussein Sanchez-Arroyo
Chapter 28	Most Spectacular Batesian Mimicry	Mark Salvato
Chapter 29	Greatest Bioluminescence	Hazel C. Levy
Chapter 30	Largest	David M. Williams
Chapter 31	Largest Blood Meal	K. E. McKenzie
Chapter 32	Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span	Hugo L. Kons, Jr.
Chapter 33	Longest	Deanna Branscome
Chapter 34	Longest Adult Life	Ramazan Cetintas
Chapter 35	Longest Regularly Repeated Migration	J. Akers Pence
Chapter 36	Most Polyandrous	Hector Cabrera-Mireles
Chapter 37	Shortest Reproductive Life	Craig H. Welch
Chapter 38	Smallest Adult	Jerry E. Gahlhoff, Jr.
Chapter 39	Fastest Runner	Thomas M. Merritt

Chapters arranged by SUBJECT
Most tolerant
   of heat (Chapter 21)
   of cold (Chapter 4)
   of desiccation (Chapter 5)
   of oxygen deficiency (Chapter 20)
   of salinity (Chapter 22)
   of depth (Chapter 19)
Most spectacular
   mating (Chapter 8)
   Batesian mimicry (Chapter 28)
Fastest
   wing beat (Chapter 9)
   flier (Chapter 1)
   runner (Chapter 39)
Longest
   individual (Chapter 33)
   lepidopteran wing span (Chapter 32)
   regularly repeated migration (Chapter 35)
   migration (Chapter 11)
Largest
   blood meal (Chapter 31)
   individual (Chapter 30)
   swarm (Chapter 27)
Smallest
   eggs (Chapter 7)
   adult (Chapter 38)
Most prolonged
   diapause (Chapter 3)
   adult life (Chapter 34)
   life cycle (Chapter 12)
Briefest
   adult life (Chapter 37)
   generations (Chapter 6)
   sexual life cycle (Chapter 16)
Most numerous
   parasitoid brood (Chapter 26)
   offspring (Chapter 18)
   instars(Chapter 13)
   vertebrate hosts (Chapter 10)
   plant hosts (Chapter 2)
   male mates (Chapter 36)
Fewest
   offspring (Chapter 17)
   hosts (Chapter 25)
Miscellany
   loudest (Chapter 24)
   most toxic venom (Chapter 23)
   greatest bioluminescence (Chapter 29)
   most parental sharing of brood care (Chapter 14)
   resistant to most insecticides (Chapter 15)

Chapters arranged by AUTHOR

A.A. Akers	Chap. 19	Adapted to Greatest Depths
Juan Manuel Alvarez	Chap. 26	Largest Parasitoid Brood
Deanna Branscome	Chap. 33	Longest
Henning Brueland	Chap. 18	Highest Lifetime Fecundity
J.H. Byrd	Chap. 1	Fastest Flier
Hector Cabrera-Mireles	Chap. 36	Most Polyandrous
Ramazan Cetintas	Chap. 34	Longest Adult Life
Varsovia E. Cevallos	Chap. 7	Smallest Eggs
Marcos R. de Faria	Chap. 3	Longest Diapause
Jerry E. Gahlhoff, Jr.	Chap. 38	Smallest Adult
Jason P.W. Hall	Chap. 4	Most Tolerant of Cold
Hugo L. Kons, Jr.	Chap. 32	Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span
Hazel C. Levy	Chap. 29	Greatest Bioluminescence
Tang Li	Chap. 6	Shortest Generation Time
K. E. McKenzie	Chap. 31	Largest Blood Meal
Thomas M. Merritt	Chap. 39	Fastest Runner
W.L. Meyer	Chap. 23	Most Toxic Venom
Bianca Cecilie Nygård	Chap. 17	Lowest Lifetime Fecundity
L. M. A. Okedi	Chap. 10	Least Specific Sucker of Vertebrate Blood
J. Akers Pence	Chap. 35	Longest Regularly Repeated Migration
John M. Petti	Chap. 24	Loudest
Andy Rasmussen	Chap. 20	Least Oxygen Dependent
Dina Richman	Chap. 22	Most Saline Tolerant
Mark Salvato	Chap. 28	Most Spectacular Batesian Mimicry
Hussein Sanchez-Arroyo	Chap. 27	Largest Swarm
C.W. Scherer	Chap. 9	Fastest Wing Beat
G.H. Schneider	Chap. 25	Greatest Host Specificity
Kerri Schwarz	Chap. 5	Most Tolerant of Desiccation
Van Sherwood	Chap. 21	Most Heat Tolerant
Doug Sieglaff	Chap. 8	Most Spectacular Mating
B.R. Sojack	Chap. 13	Most Instars
Christopher Tipping	Chap. 11	Longest Insect Migration
Barbra Larson Vasquez	Chap. 15	Resistant to Most Insecticides
Kevina Vulinec	Chap. 14	Most Parental Sharing of Brood Care
Craig H. Welch	Chap. 37	Shortest Reproductive Life
David M. Williams	Chap. 30	Largest
Richard A. Worth	Chap. 2	Greatest Host Range
Likui Yang	Chap. 16	Shortest Sexual Life Cycle
Yong Zeng	Chap. 12	Longest Life Cycle

More about UF's Book of Insect Records

Preparation of chapters
Before 1999, chapters were written by graduate students in an insect ecology course at the University of Florida, except for two chapters prepared by graduate students at University of Bergen, Norway. The editor and two student referees reviewed each chapter. Authors revised and resubmitted their chapters, which were then either accepted or returned for further revision. Chapters were limited to 1,500 words, including a brief abstract.

Now chapters are solicited from anyone interested in researching an insect record and lengthier chapters are permitted. What is required is good scholarship and a willingness to augment or improve the content of the Book of Insect Records.

Contributed chapters and nominations for new chapters or for new champions for old chapters should be sent to—

Thomas J. Walker
Editor, UF Book of Insect Records
Department of Entomology & Nematology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-0620

FAX: 352-392-0190
E-mail: tjw@ufl.edu

Publication of chapters
Completed chapters are put on the World Wide Web as HTML (HyperText Markup Language) documents in which the user's browser controls the document's format by referring to markup tags. Through 1999, they were also desktop published and put on the Web as PDF (Portable Document Format) documents, which can be viewed and printed with a free reader exactly as it was desktop published. The Acrobat reader, for Mac or Windows, can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/Acrobat. Most Web browsers will automatically load PDF files into the reader as the files are downloaded from the Internet.

Copyright and permitted uses
As provided by copyright law, each chapter in this book is copyrighted by the author as of the date of first publication. Notice of copyright is at the end of each chapter.

For noncommercial use, the chapters in this book may be freely reproduced and distributed in part or in whole provided the source is cited. The suggested citation for a chapter is—

[author's name]. [year (see publication date at end of chapter heading)]. [chapter title]. Chapter [n] in University of Florida Book of Insect Records, 2001. http://recbk.ifas.ufl.edu/recbk.htm.

The suggested citation for the entire work is—

Walker, T.J., ed. 2001. University of Florida Book of Insect Records, 2001. http://recbk.ifas.ufl.edu/recbk.htm.

For information on commercial use of any or all chapters, contact the editor. Any royalties from commercial use will accrue to the Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida.