Course Title: INSECT MORPHOLOGY

Course Code: ENT-301

Credit Hours: 3(2-1)

Instructor: DR. MUHAMMAD ASAM RIAZ

Email: [email protected]

DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

The basic objective of this course is to prepare students to

• Describe the external feature of insect head, thorax and abdomen.
• Compare feature of different insect orders

The practical portion is planned to direct students towards dissection of insect external and internal organs. Students will perform dissection of different insect mouthparts and their external features. Student will also learn to draw those characters present on insect body.

COURSE CONTENTS

THEORY:

Introduction; integument and its derivatives; insect body regions and segmentation; comparative morphology of head, thorax, abdomen and their appendages in different insect orders; endoskeleton, internal organ systems, exocrine and endocrine organs in different insect orders.

PRACTICAL:

Structure of integument and its derivatives; comparative external and internal morphology of different insect orders. Preparation of temporary mounts of external and internal body organs of different insect orders

READINGS

1. 1.             Chapman, R. F., 2000. The insects: Structure and function (4th Ed.). Hodder and Stoughton Education Ltd., U.K.
2. Richard, O.W. and R.G. Davies. 1984. Imm’s General Textbook of Entomology, Vol. I, revised. 10th ed. (Structure, Physiology & Development). Chapman and Hall, London, N.Y. 
3. Romoser, W.S. 2001. The Science of Entomology, 3rd Ed. WCB Inc.
4. Romoser, W.S. 2001. The Science of Entomology. 3rd ed. WCB Inc.
5. Snodgrass, R., 1935. Principles of Insect Morphology. Cornell Univ. Press., U.S.A.
6. Tonapi, G. T., 1994. Experimental Entomology. An Aid to Laboratory and Field Studies. CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, India.
7. Zombori, L., Strawmann, H. 1999. Dictionary of Inscet Morphology. De Gruyter

COURSE SCHEDULE

RESEARCH PROJECT /PRACTICALS /LABS /ASSIGNMENTS

Performance of insect dissection, Mouthparts, preparation of temporary slides.