To the study of Afrotropical species of the genus Aneuclis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae)

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-123
Author(s):  
A.I. Khalaim
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Afrotropical Region

Aneuclis rhodesiana sp. nov. is described from Zimbabwe, Cameroon and South Africa from the material of the Natural History Museum, London. New faunistic records of six species of the genus Aneuclis are given for Afrotropical region.

African Spilogona Schnabl: morphology of the male terminalia and description of a new species (Diptera: Muscidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4277 (2) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
MÁRCIA S. COURI ◽  
ADRIAN C. PONT
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Museum ◽  
A New Species

Spilogona breviaristata sp. nov. from South Africa is described and the morphology of the male terminalia of seven African Spilogona Schnabl (Diptera, Muscidae) species are described and illustrated: Spilogona biguttata Emden, Spilogona fuscotriangulata Emden, Spilogona natalensis Zielke, Spilogona pertinisetodes Emden, Spilogona quasifasciata Emden, Spilogona semifasciata Emden and Spilogona spinipes (Bigot). The material studied is deposited in the Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, United Kingdom, and paratypes of the new species are also in the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), Oxford, United Kingdom. 

Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, 3: New species and records from the expedition to SW Africa in 1971–1972

2018 ◽  
Vol 154 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-260
Author(s):  
Michael Darby
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Western Africa ◽  
Collecting Methods

Ptiliidae collected in Africa (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa) 28 December 1971 – 20 April 1972 by members of a Natural History Museum, London, expedition to south western Africa are determined to 27 species, 15 of which are new to science: Actidium bipustulatum sp. n., Actidium parvum sp. n., Bambara chianga sp. n., Bambara magnifica sp. n., Bambara namibiensis sp. n., Bambara gabela sp. n., Bambara subjoannis sp. n., Ptiliola minutissima sp. n., Ptiliola flava sp. n., Ptiliola problematica sp. n., Ptiliola semitaria sp. n., Ptilium exiguum sp. n., Ptilium pernix sp. n., Nephanes plurijugosus sp. n., Acrotrichis botswanensis sp. n. Information about collecting methods and sites is provided from data kept at the time and figures included to amplify the descriptions of earlier authors. Keys are provided to the subfamilies, tribes and genera.

On the generic and specific identity of the holotype of Rana hymenopus Boulenger 1920 (Amphibia: Anura: Pyxicephalidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3195 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARRY T. CLARKE ◽  
JOHN C. POYNTON
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Osteological Characters ◽  
Specific Identity

The proposal by Tarrant et al. (2008) to refer the holotype of Rana hymenopus Boulenger 1920 to Amietia fuscigula isrejected. The holotype has been re-examined and, using external morphological and osteological characters, found to begenerically and specifically distinct from A. fuscigula. We refer the holotype to the genus Strongylopus Tschudi as a validspecies, S. hymenopus. The provenance of this specimen is established as South Africa, presented to the British Museumby Sir Andrew Smith, accessioned in 1858, and currently recognised in the Natural History Museum, London as Bouleng-er’s Rana hymenopus holotype. Some consequences of retrieving the name hymenopus from the synonymy of A. fuscigula are noted.

Afrotropical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) with the description of four new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4216 (6) ◽  
pp. 501 ◽  
Author(s):  
MÁRCIA COURI ◽  
ADRIAN PONT
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Afrotropical Region ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
First Time

All the Afrotopical Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) deposited in the Natural History Museum, London (United Kingdom) were analyzed, including the types of the species described by Emden, mainly from the British Museum (Natural History) Ruwenzori Expedition of 1934–1935. Diagnoses and notes on all the species recorded from the Afrotropical region are given, together with illustrations of the male terminalia (when sufficient material was available), some of which are given for the first time. We made the following taxonomic changes: Limnophora terrestris Paterson, 1955 is a junior synonym of Limnophora translucida Stein, 1913 (syn. nov.); Limnophora aculeipes latilamellata Malloch, 1921 has its status revised and is elevated to species rank (stat. rev.) with Limnophora aculeipes eurymetopa Emden, 1951 proposed as a junior synonym (syn. nov.); L. majuscula kinangopana Emden, 1951 is also raised to species rank (stat. nov.). Four new species are described: Limnophora alta sp. nov.; Limnophora nuda sp. nov.; Limnophora numerosa sp. nov. and Limnophora sinuosa sp. nov., with illustrations of male terminalia. 

Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861–1943): a review of his scientific career, with an annotated bibliography of his foraminiferal publications

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Hodgkinson ◽  
John E. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
History Museum ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACT: In spite of his many other interests, Edward Heron-Allen also worked for nearly 50 years as a scientist on minute shelled protists, called foraminifera, much of it in an unpaid, unofficial capacity at The Natural History Museum, London, and notably in collaboration with Arthur Earland. During this career he published more than 70 papers and obtained several fellowships, culminating in 1919 in his election to the Royal Society. Subsequently, he bequeathed his foraminiferal collections and fine library to the Museum, and both are housed today in a room named in his honour. In this paper, for the first time, an assessment of his scientific accomplishments is given, together with a full annotated bibliography of his publications held in the Heron-Allen Library. This is part of a project to produce a bibliography of his complete publications, recently initiated by the Heron-Allen Society.

Some aspects of the work of Robert Brown and the Investigatornaturalists in Madeira during August 1801

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-394
Author(s):  
D. T. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Atlantic Island

Robert Brown is best known for his Australian botanical work of 1801-1805 and for his activity as an early taxonomist and microscopist. However, he made botanical collections and observations on the Atlantic island of Madeira in August 1801 while on his way to Australia on Investigator. As the bicentenary of the voyage is now being celebrated this aspect of Brown's botanical career, and its aftermath, is examined. Some of his Madeiran collection –rass specimens – survive today in the Herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London (BM).

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