A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 



OF 



INSECT- VASCULAR PLANT ASSOCIATIONAL STUDIES 



By John M. Kingsolver, Entomology Research Division, 



Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 



and Milton W. Sanderson, Illinois Natural History Survey 



Acknowledgments 



We owe a special debt to R. A. Evers, Botanist and Curator of the Herbarium, Illinois 

 Natural History Survey, for reading the manuscript of the mimeo edition and for consulting 

 with us on many problems of mutual concern. To the late A. G. Vestal, the eminent plant ecolo- 

 gist at the University of Illinois, we are grateful for his cooperation throughout the initial 

 project. We express our appreciation to the following colleagues for their criticism and sugges- 

 tions: H. B. Cunningham, G. C. Decker, R. H. Foote, H. B. Mills, H. H. Ross, and L. J. Stannard; 

 and to Mrs. Ruth Warrick, former Librarian, Illinois Natural History Survey, we are indebted 

 for her interest and for her painstaking effort in seeking many titles and checking their accuracy. 



We are grateful to the following entomologists who responded so generously to our original 

 version of this list: D. Anderson, N. L. Anderson, R. L. Blickle, W. J. Brown, C. K. Dorsey, 

 S. W. Frost, R. W. Hodges, W. R. Horsfall, W. W. Judd, R. H. Painter, and R. E. Woodruff. 

 Other entomologists who contributed additions, suggestions, or reprints are: W. H. Anderson, 



D. F. Bray, B. D. Burks, H. W. Capps, P. A. Dahm, H. A. Denmark, P. B. Dowden, D. E. Hardy, 



E. W. King, G. F. Knowlton, J. T. Medlar, H. H. Neunzig, L. L. Pechuman, J. E. Porter, 

 R. L. Rabb, H. Ruckes, Jr., G. W. Simpson, W. A. Stephen, G. C. Steyskal, J. W. Thieret, 

 A. N. Tissot, P. Vaurie, and D. A. Young. 



Introduction 



Despite the tremendous economic losses caused by phytophagous insects and the vital im- 

 portance of insect-plant relationships to agricultural sciences, nowhere in the North American 

 literature is there a comprehensive compilation by plant families of principal works that treat 

 insect associates of vascular plants according to single species or genera. Our efforts to find 

 reliable plant-host-association information for several beetle families disclosed this lack of 

 available bibliographies as well as some inconsistencies in the method of reporting plant-insect 

 relationships. 



In the course of studies in our individual specialties, we found many references that pro- 

 vided us with useful information and ideas. We have compiled them in this report under various 

 categories, believing that they will quickly provide for others an initial source for which we 

 originally searched. 



Many of these references were published in 1962 in "A Selected Bibliography of Insect- 

 Vascular Plant Associations in the United States and Canada" (Mimeo F-4, Section of Faunistic 

 Surveys and Insect Identification, Illinois Natural History Survey), with Sanderson as senior 

 author. 



Copies of the Mimeo F-4 were sent to more than 100 workers in the United States and 

 Canada, whom we considered to have special interests in insect -plant relationships, with a 

 request for any additional references we had not included and for any suggestions or criticisms 

 that they might have regarding the paper. 



Many of their suggestions, incorporated with the original version, have resulted in the 

 present publication, which we hope will stimulate the unearthing of additional unpublished theses 

 on the subject and will focus attention not only on the work that has already been accomplished 



