chapter 1. Tephritid fruit flies (Diptera) / Penelope Mavragani-Tsipidou, Antigone Zacharopoulou, Elena Drosopoulou, Antonios A. Augustinos, Kostas Bourtzis, and Frantisek Marec -- chapter 2. Hessian flies (Diptera) / Jeff J. Stuart, Rajat Aggarwal, and Brandon J. Schemerhorn -- chapter 3. Tsetse flies (Diptera) / Anna R. Malacrida, Francesca Scolari, Marco Falchetto, and Serap Aksoy -- chapter 4. Mosquitoes (Diptera) / Maria V. Sharakhova, Phillip George, Vladimir Timoshevskiy, Atashi Sharma, Ashley Peery, and Igor V. Sharakhov -- chapter 5. Beetles (Coleoptera) / Diogo C. Cabral-de-Mello -- chapter 6. Silk moths (Lepidoptera) / Atsuo Yoshido, Ken Sahara, and Yuji Yasukochi -- chapter 7. Parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) / Jurgen Gadau, Karsten Rutten, and Michaela Neusser -- chapter 8. Bedbugs (Hemiptera) / Snejana Grozeva, Boris A. Anokhin, and Valentina G. Kuznetsova -- chapter 9. Aphids (Hemiptera) / Mauro Mandrioli and Gian Carlo Manicardi -- chapter 10. Spittlebugs (Hemiptera) / Valentina G. Kuznetsova, Anna Maryanska-Nadachowska, and Tatyana Karamysheva -- chapter 11. Grasshoppers (Orthoptera) / Juan Pedro Martinez Camacho, Josefa Cabrero, Maria Dolores Lopez-Leon, Diogo C. Cabral-de-Mello, and Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano -- chapter 12. Ticks (Ixodida) / Monika Gulia-Nuss, Jason M. Meyer, and Catherine A. Hill.