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Moriosomus seticollis Straneo
No full textMoriosomus seticollis Straneo (Figs. 3, 6, 8) Type specimens. Holotype not examined. Colombia: without precise locality data. Straneo Collection, Genoa, Italy, male. Paratype examined. Ecuador: Pichincha, W. San Juan, old road, Quito - Sto. Domingo, under logs, 00° 39 ’ 0 S, 078° 21 ’ 0 W, 1981–2134 m, June (Ecuador Expedition 1982, H.E. Frania Collection # 122), (NMNH: ADP 108773, male). Proposed English vernacular name. Hairy-thorax robust carabid beetle. Diagnosis. With the attributes of the genus as described above and pronotum as long as wide or slightly longer than wide, lateral margin with six setae; elytron with interneurs smooth, not punctulate; submentum with two setae; prosternum and prosternal intercoxal process sparsely setose. Size medium, SBL = 15mm. Description. (Fig. 3). Size medium, ABL = 14 to 15.6 mm, SBL = 15 mm, TW = 4.9 to 5.2 mm (smaller measures from Straneo 1985). Color: Head, pronotum and elytra black, legs very dark rufous. Microsculpture: Dorsal surface of head with isodiametric sculpticells, dorsal surface of pronotum and elytra with very fine transverse sculpticells. Head: Frons setose, two setae on left side, one seta on right side; clypeus shallowly emarginate, with one seta on each side near anterior margin; labrum emarginate with six setae on anterior margin; mandibles relatively narrow for genus, lateroventral margin of mandible slightly explanate; submentum with one pair of setae. Prothorax: Pronotum markedly convex, slightly longer than wide, with six setae along lateral margin, five evenly distributed in anterior 2 / 3 and one at hind angle, lateral margin beaded; prosternum and prosternal intercoxal process sparsely setose. Pterothorax: Metepisternum about quadrate, lateral margins slightly longer than and anterior margin, metasternum sparsely setose. Elytra apparently fused along suture. Interval 7 carinate; Interneurs of elytron smooth, impunctate. Metathoracic wing small scale, vestigial. Abdomen: Sternum VII with four or five setae in males and two setae in females. Male genitalia: (Figs. 6 a–c) Phallus progressively more infuscated distally; basal bulb crested (Fig. 6 a), subacute; ostium length 2 / 3 shaft length; ventral left and right margin slightly sinuate (Fig. 6 b); apex flattened dorso-ventrally, curved ventrally, and broadly rounded (Fig. 6 c). Endophallus unarmed, microtrichial fields not apparent. Parameres subequal in length; left paramere in ventral aspect (Fig. 6 b) almost quadrate, distal margin very broad, subtruncate. Female reproductive tract (Fig. 8): Spermathecal gland and associated diverticula attach at the base of the spermatheca; gonocoxite- 2 as long as gonocoxite- 1, narrow and with acute apex. Dispersal potential. Like adults of M. motschulskyi, these beetles are flightless and therefore they must walk to disperse. Accordingly, the species may be expected to have a markedly restricted geographical range. Way of life. Available evidence suggests that this species may be confined to high altitude forests and that its members are active in the dry season. Other specimens examined. ECUADOR: COTOPAXI PROV., Las Pampas vic., 1800–2000m, 00° 25 ' 0 S, 078° 57 ' 0 W April–May (K.W. Will) (KWWC: 5 females, 4 males) (CASC: 1 female, 1 male). Geographic distribution. Adults of this species have been recorded from Colombia and Ecuador, in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes.Published as part of Erwin, Terry L. & Moore, Wendy, 2007, Taxonomic review of the Neotropical genus Moriosomus Motschulsky (Insecta: Coleoptera, Carabidae, Morionini) with notes on the way of life of the species, pp. 49-63 in Zootaxa 1438 on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17593
Letter from Carl Hayden to L. S. Williams
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to L. S. Williams about the potential to expand the park boundaries
Mystery Author Stan Jones and Sepculative Fiction Authors Sterling Emmal and L. S. Goulet
No full textSterling Emmal is author of the sci-fi fantasy The Executioner of Rawule and L. S. Goulet is author of the fantasy book Sword of Dragonblood. Tundra Kill is Stan Jones' latest Nathan Active mystery. His other books include White Sky, Black Ice; Shaman Pass, Frozen Sun; Village of the Ghost Bears, and the nonfiction classic, The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster, coauthored with Sharon Bushell
Letter from L. S. Williams to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from L. S. Williams to Carl Hayden suggesting a boundary amendment to the national park bill
Letter from L. S. Williams to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from L. S. Williams to Carl Hayden about visiting Mr. Buggeln to discuss proposed park boundary changes
Letter from Carl Hayden to L. S. Williams
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to L. S. Williams informing the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company that a bill extending the timber cutting rights in the Canyon did not pass in Congress
Telegram from L. S. Williams to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from L. S. Williams to Carl Hayden stating there should be no objection to Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company having their timber contract extended as it is greatly favored
Sui Caelostomini (Coleopt. carabid.) di Fernando Poo
No full textNúmero abril-septiembreQuando, nel 1941 (Ann. Mus. Civ, Genova, LXI, pp. 1-17).
studiai, tra altri Caelostomini, quelli raccolti nell'Is. Fernando
Poo da Leonardo Fea negli anni 1901-02, appartenenti al Museo
Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, trovai tra di essi materiali
interessantissimi, compresi alcuni nuovi generi. Perciò guando il
mio amico P. Basilewsky, con la sua consueta gentilezza, mi
offerse per studio una piccola serie di 21 Pterostichini di Fernando
Poo, appartenenti al Instituto Español de Entomología,
accettai la sua offerta con molta riconoscenza, certo di trovare
materiali interessanti tra tali esemplari. La mia spettativa non è
andata delusa ed in questa breve nota do qualche notizia sui
Caelostomini contenuti nell'invio. Circa gli altri Pterostichini,
non ho quasi nulla da notare, all'infuori che segnalare due esemplari
di Buderes Oberti Murray, che finora non avevo veduti di
Fernando Poo e 2 es. di Stereostoma solidum Murray, che sono
per cosi dire intermedi tra la forma tipica, con strie delle elitre
ben punteggiate ed interstrie convesse, e la var. levistriatum
Straneo, di Fernando Poo, avente le interstrie piane e le strie
..quasi liscie.Peer reviewe
[Letter from Arthur S. Rosichan to J. L. Zuber - August 11, 1944]
No full textLetter from Arthur S. Rosichan to J. L. Zuber: August 11, 1944. Subject of the letter is the author moving to Houston to work for the Jewish Community Council
Synopsis of the Genera and Subgenera of the Tribe Peleciini, and Revision of the Neotropical and Oriental Species (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
No full textPhylogenetic analysis of structural features of adults shows that the tribe Peleciini comprises eight genera, grouped in two subtribes: the southeastern Australian Agonicina (new status), including Pseudagonica Moore, 1960 (type species P. nitida Moore, 1960) and Agonica Sloane, 1920 (type species A. simsoni Sloane, 1920); and the Inabresian Peleciina (new status, with Peleciini and Disphaericini of authors), including the Neotropical Eripus Dejean, 1829 (type species E. scydmaenoides Dejean, 1829), Pelecium Kirby, 1817 (type species P. cyanipes Kirby, 1817), and Stricteripus, new genus (type species Pelecium peruvianum Straneo, 1953), the Oriental Ardistomopsis, new genus (type species Disphaericus myrmex, Andrewes, 1923), and the Afrotropical Dyschiridium Chaudoir, 1861 (type species D. ebeninum Chaudoir, 1861) and Disphaericus Waterhouse, 1842 (type species D. gambianus Waterhouse, 1842). A key is provided to distinguish among these genera, and the structural features of each genus are described and illustrated, with habitus and SEM photographs. For the genera Eripus, Pelecium, Stricteripus, and Ardistomopsis, the species are keyed and characterized in terms of structural features and geographical distribution, and illustrations of habitus and range maps are provided. Application of names is based on study of type material
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