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Brychius hungerfordi Spangler 1954
No full textBrychius hungerfordi Spangler, 1954: 114 Paratype: 1 ♀. 29. Maple River / McKinley Twp / Emmet Co. Mich. / VII-8-1952 / Paul J. Spangler // [on blue] PARATYPE / Brychius / hungerfordi / P.J. Spangler // ♀ Conservation status: Good condition; glued on point Paratype: 1 ♀. 29. Maple River / McKinley Twp / Emmet Co. Mich. / VII-8-1952 / Paul J. Spangler // [on blue] PARATYPE / Brychius / hungerfordi / P.J. Spangler // ♀ // [blank red label] Conservation status: Good condition; glued on pointPublished as part of Keller, Oliver, Schnepp, Kyle E., Ashman, Krystal L., Turnbow, Robert H. & Skelley, Paul E., 2020, An annotated catalog of the type material of Adephaga and Myxophaga (Coleoptera) deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods in Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 4744 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4744.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/369068
Spangler, Anna L.
No full textBody cremated. George M. Spangler - husbandhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1940/1353/thumbnail.jp
Spangler, Birdella A.
No full textBody cremated. A. L. Spangler - husband.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-register-vol15/1056/thumbnail.jp
Laccodytes neblinae Toledo, Spangler & Balke, 2010, sp.n.
No full text<i>Laccodytes neblinae</i> sp.n. <p>Figs (6, 8, 11, 14, 25, 33, 49, 59, 62)</p> <p> <b>Type locality.</b> Venezuela: Amazonas, Cerro de la Neblina.</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype 3 (USNM): Venezuela, TF Amazonas, Cerro de la Neblina, basecamp, 140 m, 0°50'N 66°10'W, 27.I.–27.II.1985, P.J. Spangler, P.M. Spangler, R. Faitoute, W.E. Steiner. Paratypes: Same data as holotype (150 exs CMT, USNM, ZSM, NMW); Puerto Ayacucho, 37 km SE Rio Gavilan, 22.II.1986, P.J. Spangler (1 ex. USNM).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Habitus (Figs 33 a, b). Body length 1.7–1.8 mm. Body slightly drop-shaped, tip of elytron slightly truncate. Hind angle of pronotum rounded. Angle between pronotum and elytra missing.</p> <p>Color. Head and pronotum dark yellow; base of pronotum black. Elytron brown with obscure paler pattern of dark yellowish patches in the following positions (Figs 33 a, b for explanation): subbasal-subsutural; mediomarginal to medio-discal; apical or subapical. These patches are not contrasting and sometimes extremely obscure. Appendages yellowish. Ventral side of head and prosternum mainly dark yellow; epipleuron, metaventrite, metacoxa and metacoxal process mainly brown; abdomen dark yellowish.</p> <p> Sculpture. The entire dorsal and ventral surface of the beetle with well impressed MR of regular, polygonal meshes. Few punctures on pronotum, elytron and metaventrite visible, denser and deeper on lateral expansions of metaventrite (“metasternal wings”). Metacoxal shagreenation similar to <i>L</i>. <i>apalodes</i> (Fig. 25). A series of transverse shallow grooves is visible at about the anterior third of metacoxal plates.</p> <p>Structures. Pronotum with narrow lateral bead; posterior angle rounded. Prosternum and prosternal process with small ridge; prosternal process broadly carinate and with a moderately long, needle-like, acute tip. Epipleuron broad up to level of sternite 6 or 7. Fore and middle legs very long and slender. Metatarsomeres 1–4 with apicolateral angle slightly lobed (Fig. 14). Outer spur of metatibia broad and flat, acuminate at tip. Hind lobes of metacoxal process poorly rounded, divided by a deep and narrow, V-shaped notch (Fig. 11).</p> <p>Male. Pro- and mesotarsi not dilated. Hind margin of sternite 7 rounded (Fig. 59). Aedeagus (Fig. 49): median lobe elongated, rounded along dorsal side, straight ventrally, with tip acuminate: gently bent down in lateral view; gently turned to the right in dorsal view. Parameres small and rounded, almost of the same size and quite similar in shape, both with an apical seta.</p> <p>Female. Sternite 7 (Fig. 59) slightly concave on both sides, hind margin with a deep and narrow V-shaped emargination, almost acute on vertex.</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b> (Fig. 62). Southwestern Venezuela.</p> <p> <b>Biology.</b> Specimens were seined from rocks in the rapids of Rio Baria; some 30 exemplars from Cerro de la Neblina were picked by hand from leaf packs taken from a stream.</p> <p> <b>Derivatio nominis.</b> Name derived from Cerro de la Neblina, type-locality of this species.</p>Published as part of <i>Toledo, Mario, Spangler, Paul J. & Balke, Michael, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical diving beetles genus Laccodytes Régimbart, 1895 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 37-58 in Zootaxa 2347</i> on pages 51-52, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/193406">10.5281/zenodo.193406</a>
Piezoelectric actuators for helicopter rotor control
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-146).by Ronald L. Spangler, Jr.M.S
Broadband control of structural vibration using simultaneous sensing and actuation with nonlinear piezoelectric currents
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217).by Ronald L. Spangler, Jr.Ph.D
Laccodytes androginus Toledo, Spangler & Balke, 2010, sp.n.
No full textLaccodytes androginus sp.n. Figs (37, 53, 62) Type locality. Venezuela: Amazonas, 40 km S Puerto Ayacucho, Tobogán de la Selva. Type material. Holotype 3 (USNM): Venezuela: Amazonas, Puerto Ayacucho, 40 km S at Tobogán, 14.XI. 1987, coll. n. # 1, P.J. Spangler & R. Faitoute. Diagnosis. Habitus (Fig. 37). Body length 1.6 mm. Short and broadly oval, somewhat convex; tip of elytron narrowly rounded. Hind angle of pronotum rounded. Angle between pronotum and elytra missing. Color. head and elytra dark brown, pronotum slightly paler, with a darker line along hind margin of pronotum. Each elytron with three diffuse, paler spots: two basal, almost circular, and one subapical, larger and less regular (Fig. 37). Appendages of body reddish-brown. Venter reddish-brown, sternites slightly paler. Sculpture. MR impressed on both elytra and metacoxae; small and fine dots are visible between the meshes, slightly denser on metaventrite. A series of transverse shallow grooves is visible at about the anterior fourth of metacoxal plates. Structures. Pronotum with narrow lateral bead; posterior angle rounded. Prosternum and prosternal process with sharp ridge; prosternal process with a somewhat short, acute tip, not going beyond mesocoxae. Epipleuron broad up to level of sternite 7. Fore and middle legs very long and slender. Metatibial spurs conical and acuminate at tip. Metatarsomeres 1–4 with apico-lateral angle distinctly lobed. Hind lobes of metacoxal process rather straight, with a small V-shaped medial notch. Male. Pro- and mesotarsi not dilated, with hardly visible adhesive setae. Sternite 7 slightly concave on both sides, with a deep V-shaped emargination on hind margin, similar to that of the female of L. neblinae (Fig. 59) but the apical emargination is a little more widely spread. Aedeagus (Fig. 53): median lobe slender and elongate in lateral view, with apex gradually curved downward; on dorsal view flat, slightly narrowed on apical third. Parameres as in Fig. 53 c, d. Female. Unknown. Distribution (Fig. 62). Southern Venezuela. Biology. Collected from leaf packs in running water. Derivatio nominis. From the male resemblance with a female Laccodytes.Published as part of Toledo, Mario, Spangler, Paul J. & Balke, Michael, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical diving beetles genus Laccodytes Régimbart, 1895 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 37-58 in Zootaxa 2347 on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19340
Oiovelia spumicola Spangler 1986
No full textOiovelia spumicola Spangler, 1986 (Figs 32–34, 44–46) Oiovelia spumicola Spangler, 1986: 438 (original description). Oiovelia spumicola: MAZZUCCONI & BACHMANN (1997b): 68 (notes on immature stages). Type locality. Venezuela, Amazonas, Cerro de la Neblina. Type material examined. PARATYPES: VENEZUELA: TERRITÓRIO FEDERAL AMAZONAS: 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (apt) (INPA), 1 ♀ (apt) (MZSP), Cerro de la Neblina, 1450 m a.s.l., 00º52 ' N / 65º58 ' W, 25–28.ii.1985, P.J. Spangler, P.M. Spangler & R.A. Faitoute coll. Dimensions. Apterous male (n = 1; mm). BL 3.10; HL 0.50; HW 0.60; ANT I 0.62, ANT II 0.33, ANT III 0.27, ANT IV 0.40; EYE 0.12; PL 0.97; PW 1.05; FORE LEG: FEM 0.85, TIB 0.83, TAR I 0.06, TAR II 0.06, TAR III 0.35; MID LEG: FEM 0.92, TIB 0.97, TAR I 0.06, TAR II 0.10, TAR III 0.40; HIND LEG: FEM 1.15, TIB 1.30, TAR I 0.07, TAR II 0.10, TAR III 0.40. Apterous female (n = 1; mm). BL 3.55; HL 0.55; HW 0.62; ANT I 0.60, ANT II 0.30, ANT III 0.26, ANT IV 0.43; EYE 0.13; PL 0.97; PW 1.05; FORE LEG: FEM 0.92, TIB 0.83, TAR I 0.06, TAR II 0.06, TAR III 0.37; MID LEG: FEM 1.05, TIB 1.06, TAR I 0.09, TAR II 0.11, TAR III 0.38; HIND LEG: FEM 1.22, TIB 1.32, TAR I 0.07, TAR II 0.15, TAR III 0.41. Diagnostic characters. This species is easily identified and differentiated from all other species by the yellowish general color of the body and appendages (Figs 32–34). Also, the male has dark central areas on sternites V–VI (Fig. 34), proctiger with a small acute process on the dorsal surface, and paramere broad at base, tapering to apex, which is hook-shaped (Fig. 46). Differential diagnosis. The apterous and macropterous forms are known in both sexes. However, it was not possible to examine macropterous specimens in this study. SPANGLER (1986) mentions that their form is similar to apterous specimens, differing from the last mainly in dark brown color of the dorsal surface of head, sides of thorax and abdominal sternites. In addition, the pronotum is reddish brown in anterior third and the fore wings are dark brown, with a basal creamy yellow area. Distribution and habitat. Venezuela (SPANGLER 1986). This species is known only from the type locality, Tepui Cerro de la Neblina, on the border of Venezuela and Brazil. It may possibly be an endemic species of this geographical region. All specimens were collected on foam masses formed in black water streams above 1450 m a.s.l. (SPANGLER 1986).Published as part of Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Melo, Alan Lane De & Ferreira-Keppler, Ruth L., 2014, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Oiovelia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae), pp. 65-98 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) (suppl.) 54 (1) on pages 81-84, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.446823
Laccodytes bassignanii Toledo, Spangler & Balke, 2010, sp.n.
No full textLaccodytes bassignanii sp.n. Figs (2, 27, 34, 50, 60, 62) Type locality. Guyana: Mazaruni-Potaro District, Takutu Mountains. Type material. Holotype 3 (USNM): Guyana, Mazaruni-Potaro Distr., Takutu Mts., 6 ° 15 'N 59 ° 5 'W, Earthwatch research expedition, 18.XII. 1983, P.J. Spangler, W.E. Steiner & M; Levine. Paratypes: Guyana: same data as holotype (9 exs CMT, USNM). Venezuela: Tobogan de la Selva, S Puerto Ayacucho, 100 m, 24.- 25.I. 2004, Garcia & Balke (7 exs KUL, ZSM) Diagnosis. Habitus (Figs 2, 34). Body length 1.6–1.8 mm. Body slightly drop-shaped, tip of elytron rather continuously rounded, hardly truncate. Hind angle of pronotum rounded. Angle between pronotum and elytra missing. Color. Head and pronotum orange; base of pronotum blackish. Elytron dark orange to brown with obscure paler pattern of dark yellowish patches in the following positions (refer to Fig. 34 for explanation): a subbasal transverse band and a subapical patch well before the tip of elytron. The subbasal band reaches the margin of elytron, where it may be in contact with the anterior angle of elytron; also the band is discally sometimes almost in touch with the base of elytron. The subapical patch is isolated. These patches are not contrasting and sometimes rather obscure. Specimens from Puerto Ayacucho share a much paler colouration than those from Guyana. Body appendages orange to yellowish. Ventral side of head, prosternum and epipleuron mainly orange to yellowish; metaventrite, metacoxa and metacoxal process mainly brownish; abdomen orange or dark yellowish. Sculpture. The entire dorsal and ventral surface of the beetle with a faint MR. No obvious puncturation visible, not even on metaventrite. No longitudinal lines or longish meshes visible. A series of transverse shallow grooves is visible at about the anterior third of metacoxal plates. Structures. Pronotum with narrow lateral bead; posterior angle rounded. Prosternum and prosternal process with small ridge; prosternal process broadly carinate and with a moderately long, needle-like, acute tip. Epipleuron broad up to level of sternite 6 or 7. Fore and middle legs very long and slender. Metatarsomeres 1–4 with apicolateral angle slightly lobed. Hind lobes of metacoxal process almost straight, with a small V-shaped notch between. Male. Pro- and mesotarsi not dilated. Hind margin of sternite 7 rounded or very slightly tectiform (Fig. 60). Aedeagus (Fig. 50): median lobe elongate. In lateral view similar as in the preceding species but visibly flattened and twisted near the base; in dorsal view flat and moderately elongate, with tip slightly acute. Parameres very similar to those of L. neblinae, but the right one broader. Female. Sternite 7 (Fig. 60) normally rounded on both sides, hind margin with a V-shaped emargination in the middle, but less deep and more gently rounded at vertex than the preceding species. Distribution (Fig. 62). Northwestern Guyana, southern Venezuela. Biology. Collected from Berlese funnles of leaf packs from a rocky stream. Derivatio nominis. Species dedicated to the memory of Mario Toledo’s friend, Filippo Bassignani, recently deceased in Mozambique in the course of field studies.Published as part of Toledo, Mario, Spangler, Paul J. & Balke, Michael, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical diving beetles genus Laccodytes Régimbart, 1895 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 37-58 in Zootaxa 2347 on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19340
Pseudeucinetus uenoi Spangler 1995
No full textPseudeucinetus uenoi Spangler, 1995 Fig. 9B Pseudeucinetus uenoi Spangler, 1995: 396. Material examined MALAYSIA • 1 ♂; “Miri Sarawak 11-XII-1968 M. Satô leg.”; EUMJ • 1 ♂; “ MALAYSIA Mamut Ranau Sabah 27. Ii. 1995 [L. T.] YR. SAWADA leg.”; EUMJ • 1 ♂; “ Malaysia SABAH Kg. Sukau, Sandakan 15-16. XII. 2009 H. Takizawa ”; ITBC • 1 ♀; “ Malaysia SABAH Kg. Tikolod, Salt trail Tambunan 11. XI. 2009 H. Takizawa ”; ITBC • 1 ♀; “ Malaysia SABAH Kg. Mansiang, Mengg-atal, Kota Kinabalu 21. XI. 2009 H. Takizawa ”; ITBC. Distribution Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah).Published as part of Yoshitomi, Hiroyuki, 2019, Review of the Asian Thaumastodinae (Coleoptera, Byrrhoidea, Limnichidae), with a phylogeny of the genera, pp. 1-45 in European Journal of Taxonomy 583 on page 19, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.583, http://zenodo.org/record/356453
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