Redescription and illustrations of the Centipede, Ectonocryptops kraepelini Crabill, 1977 (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopocryptopidae: Ectonocryptopinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1824 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY ◽  
RANDY MERCURIO
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
New Mexican ◽  
First Time ◽  
Single Publication

In 1977, R. E. Crabill, Jr., erected Ectonocryptops for a new Mexican centipede from Colima that he named, E. kraepelini. He placed it in the Cryptopidae, but with 23 pairs of legs and pedal segments, it properly belongs in the                Scolopocryptopidae, subfamily Ectonocryptopinae, according to today's taxonomy (Shelley & Mercurio 2005). Crabill did not provide illustrations, and the holotype and only specimen, supposedly at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (AMNH), was subsequently lost. Consequently, the identity of this centipede was uncertain until we (Shelley & Mercurio 2005) proposed Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus, n. gen., n. sp., for an anatomically similar form from neighboring Jalisco. Discovery of the latter allowed us to interpret characterizations in Crabill's verbal account of Ectonocryptops kraepelini, and separate generic status seemed warranted because of different numbers of podomeres on the caudal legs, four in Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus and five in Ectonocryptops kraepelini (Crabill 1977). Repeated and extensive searches in the type and general collections at the AMNH failed to reveal the missing holotype as did ones at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, where Crabill was a curator when he described Ectonocryptops kraepelini. The holotype was discovered in the AMNH by the second author in 2005; the cephalic plate & antennae, coxosternum & segments 1–7, and segments 19–23 plus the caudal legs had been dissected, cleared, and mounted on a slide, whereas segments 8–18 were in a vial of alcohol. The slide mount was in extremely poor condition with darkened and cracked medium that was filled with air bubbles and meniscuses such that critical parts could not be clearly viewed. We removed the mounted parts from the slide, placed them in alcohol with the rest of the specimen, and redescribe Ectonocryptops kraepelini and provide, for the first time, illustrations of anatomical features. We also provide new accounts of the subfamily, Ectonocryptoides, and Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus, so that all subfamilial components are treated in a single publication. Asterisks (*) in the account of Ectonocryptops kraepelini denote items taken from Crabill's (1977) description that we could not confirm.

First records of the genera Neocylloepus and Pilielmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) from Venezuela, with the description of Pilielmis shepardi sp. nov.

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4688 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-288
Author(s):  
THIAGO T. S. POLIZEI ◽  
MAXWELL V. L. BARCLAY
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Central America ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Neocylloepus Brown, 1970 and Pilielmis Hinton, 1971 are Neotropical genera of riffle beetles, mainly distributed in Central America and the north of South America. These genera are here reported for the first time from Venezuela, and a new species, Pilielmis shepardi sp. nov. is described and illustrated. The type material is housed in Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (MZSP), Natural History Museum, London, UK (BMNH), Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Maracay, Venezuela (MIZA), Michael A. Ivie Collection, Bozeman, Montana, USA (MAIC), and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA (USNM). 

Establishing vertebrate paleontology at Chicago's Field Columbian Museum, 1893—1898

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL D. BRINKMAN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Vertebrate Paleontology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Carnegie Museum ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Extensive Body

By the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of the costly, far-flung, labor-intensive, and specimen-centered nature of the discipline, American vertebrate paleontology had become centralized at large collections maintained by a few universities and major natural history museums. Foremost among the latter group were the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; the American Museum of Natural History, New York; the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC; the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; and the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. There is an extensive body of popular and historical literature reviewing the establishment and early development of the vertebrate paleontology programs at most of these institutions, especially the American Museum. The Field Columbian Museum, however, has received relatively little attention in this literature. The present paper begins to redress this imbalance by reviewing the establishment of vertebrate paleontology at the Field Columbian Museum from the museum's foundation in 1893, through the end of 1898, when the museum added a vertebrate paleontologist to its curatorial staff. An account of the Field Columbian Museum's first expedition for fossil vertebrates in the summer of 1898 is included.

scholarly journals First known male of Enicoscolus (Diptera: Bibionidae), with a redescription of E. brachycephalus

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 665 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM ◽  
LENIRA GUIMARmES PINTO
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
American Museum ◽  
First Time

A male of Enicoscolus is described for the first time. Enicoscolus brachycephalus is redescribed based on two males and one female of E. brachycephalus from Mexico, found in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The general pattern of the male terminalia is similar to other Bibionini. Sternite 9 is largely fused to the gonocoxites, which slightly projects distally to the hypandrial plate. The gonostyles are simple, rounded at the apex, differing from the usual Bibiodes bifid pattern or the curved gonostyle found in most Bibio species. A pair of aedeagal plates the tegmen and the genital rod follow the general pattern of Bibionomorpha species. The position of Enicoscolus is as the sister group of Bibionellus.

Bringing the Real World of Science to Children: A Partnership of the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G Picciano ◽  
Robert V. Steiner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Every child has a right to an education. In the United States, the issue is not necessarily about access to a school but access to a quality education. With strict compulsory education laws, more than 50 million students enrolled in primary and secondary schools, and billions of dollars spent annually on public and private education, American children surely have access to buildings and classrooms. However, because of a complex and competitive system of shared policymaking among national, state, and local governments, not all schools are created equal nor are equal education opportunities available for the poor, minorities, and underprivileged. One manifestation of this inequity is the lack of qualified teachers in many urban and rural schools to teach certain subjects such as science, mathematics, and technology. The purpose of this article is to describe a partnership model between two major institutions (The American Museum of Natural History and The City University of New York) and the program designed to improve the way teachers are trained and children are taught and introduced to the world of science. These two institutions have partnered on various projects over the years to expand educational opportunity especially in the teaching of science. One of the more successful projects is Seminars on Science (SoS), an online teacher education and professional development program, that connects teachers across the United States and around the world to cutting-edge research and provides them with powerful classroom resources. This article provides the institutional perspectives, the challenges and the strategies that fostered this partnership.

First description of the male of the linyphiid spider Disembolus  corneliae (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4526 (3) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
MARC A. MILNE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
American Museum ◽  
First Time

The erigonine linyphiid genus Disembolus currently contains 24 described species (World Spider Catalog 2018). Disembolus was erected by Chamberlin and Ivie (1933) to accommodate their new species D. stridulans Chamberlin and Ivie from Utah. Since then, 23 species have been added to the genus. Chamberlin (1949) described D. zygethus Chamberlin, but the majority of species were added to the genus by Millidge (1981). Millidge (1981) described 16 species from museum specimens at the American Museum of Natural History and transferred five species from the genera Tapinocyba and Soudinus (D. alpha (Chamberlin 1949), D. kesimbus (Chamberlin 1949), D. phanus (Chamberlin 1949), D. sacerdotalis (Crosby & Bishop 1933), and D. corneliae (Chamberlin & Ivie 1944)). The last species added to the genus was D. bairdi Edwards described by Edwards in 1999. Disembolus corneliae Chamberlin and Ivie was described from the female only by Chamberlin and Ivie (1944) as Soudinus corneliae. The species was then transferred to Disembolus by Millidge (1981). Herein, I describe the male of the species for the first time. 

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