Ordination in the Study of Morphology, Evolution and Systematics of Insects: Application and Quantitative Genetic Rationals Book

	Preface
	Ordinations: Basic Concepts and Methods
	Ordination Methods: Their Contrast to Clustering and Cladistic Techniques	1
	An Introduction to Ordination, Principal Component Analysis and Discriminant Analysis	11
	Quantitative Genetic Rationales and Phylogenetic Interpretations
	The Evolutionary Quantitative Genetic Rationales for the Use of Ordination Analyses in Systematics: Phylogenetic Implications	29
	Natural Selection and Morphometrics	55
	The Use of Discriminant Function Analysis for Estimation of Phylogeny: Partitioning, Perspective and Problems	65
	Data Acquisition Methods
	The Analysis of Shape Variation Using Ordinations of Fitted Functions	95
	Practical Machine Vision for Morphometric Data Acquisition	113
	Assessments of Characters: Interpreting Variance and Allometry
	A Statistical and Empirical Evaluation of Some Morphometric Variables of Honey Bee Classification	127
	Lepidopteran Wing Morphology: The Multivariate Analysis of Size, Shape, and Allometric Scaling	157
	Multivariate Study of Temporal Variation in Morphology of a Gall-Forming Aphid	179
	The Use of Ordination Methods to Resolve Problems of Species Discrimination in the Genus Cinara Curtis (Homoptera: Aphidoidea: Lachnidae)	193
	Assessments of Biological Groupings: Circumscription and Delimitation
	Using Ordination Methods with Geographic Information: Species Resolution in a Partially Sympatric Complex of Neotropical Tramea Dragonflies (Odonata: Libellulidae)	223
	Variation in Populations of Leafhoppers and Planthoppers (Auchenorrhyncha): Biotypes and Biological Species	241
	The Use of Ordination Techniques to Discriminate within Pest Aphid Species Complexes	261
	Inference of Lineage Relationships: Assessments of Evolution and Coevolution
	Morphological Variation in an Ectoparasite: Partitioning Ecological and Evolutionary Influences	277
	Discriminant Analysis of Year Classes of Periodical Cicada Based on Wing Morphometric Data Enhanced by Molecular Information	309
	Phylogenetic Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Characters of Gall-Inducing Midges and the Historical Relation to their Hosts: Dasineura (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on Rosaceae and Monocots	325
	Pronotal Shape: A Source of Confusion or Panacea in Systematic Studies of Treehoppers (Homoptera: Membracidae)?	349
	Index	385