The Meyrick Types of Scopariinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in the British Museum (Natural History), Exclusive of Hawaiian Species

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (12) ◽  
pp. 891-897
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Hawaiian Species ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
Made In

The purposes of this paper are: (1) to validate a considerable number of lectotype selections made in the course of a revisional study of the Scopariinae, and (2) to give, for the convenience of students, a list of Meyrick holotypes and lectotypes in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), which now contains the types of all but five of the large number of species described by Meyrick in this group. The Hawaiian species have been omitted as volume 8 of Zimmerman's Insects of Hawaii gives full particulars of the type material of Hawaiian Scopariinae, including Zimmerman's lectotype selections.

Not from “Down Under”: new synonymies and combinations for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) erroneously reported from Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2073 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
VOLKER W. FRAMENAU ◽  
NIKOLAJ SCHARFF ◽  
HERBERT W. LEVI
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
New Synonymy

The examination of type material of presumed Australian orb-weaving spiders as part of a revision of the Araneidae of this country revealed that a number of species are not from Australia. The Natural History Museum, Vienna (Austria) holds the type material of three species of orb-weaving spiders that were originally described from Australia, however all of the species are undoubtedly of American, most likely southern Brazilian, origin and it is unlikely that they were collected in Australia. We propose the following synonymies and generic transfers: Acacesia tenella (L. Koch, 1871) comb. nov. (= Acacesia cornigera Petrunkevitch, 1925 new synonymy); Alpaida navicula (L. Koch, 1871) comb. nov. (= Alpaida roemeri (Strand, 1908) new synonymy); and Eustala mucronatella (Roewer, 1942) comb. nov. In addition, Novearanea queribunda (Keyserling, 1887) comb. nov. (= Araneus quaesitus (Keyserling, 1887) new synonymy; = Novaranea laevigata (Urquhart, 1891) new synonymy) is a New Zealand orb-weaving spider based on the labels that were found with the type specimens housed at the Natural History Museum, London (England). In the original description no locality data was given for N. queribunda and “Australien” was erroneously listed for A. quaesitus.

The internal features of the Rhynchonellid brachiopod Propriopugnus Brunton, 1984, from the lower Carboniferous of England

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman M. Savage ◽  
Risa M. Corlett
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Museum Specimen ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
History Museum

As part of the preparation for reviewing the Paleozoic rhynchonellids for the revised brachiopod treatise, one of us (NMS) requested help from Dr. Howard Brunton, of the Natural History Museum (British Museum, London) in obtaining type material of Propriopugnus pugnus (Martin) to further investigate the internal features. Dr. Brunton kindly sent a Natural History Museum specimen that he considers to be close to the lectotype. This specimen has been photographed and sectioned, and it is described below.

A review of the type material of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) described by F.W. Hope, and by E. Mulsant in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.G. Booth ◽  
R.D. Pope
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Material ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Single Exception ◽  
University Museum

AbstractThe type material of Coccinellidae described by F.W. Hope and by E. Mulsant from the collections of F.W. Hope and J.O. Westwood is reviewed. Lectotypes for Hope's species are designated (with a single exception) from material in the British Museum (Natural History). The majority oflectotypes for Mulsant's species described from Hope's and Westwood's material is located in the Hope Entomological Collections, University Museum, Oxford. The identity of a species is discussed where confusion concerning a name has occurred in the past, or where the current interpretation differs from the original description or type material. Brachiacantha bipartita Mulsant is resurrected from synonymy with B. westwoodii Mulsant. The following new synonymies are recorded (valid name first): Ballida brahamae Mulsant = Palaeoeneis aurantiaca Crotch = Eoneda sumatrensis Iablokoff-Khnzorian; Calvia quattuordecimguttata (Linnaeus) = Oenopia dorsonotata Mulsant; Calvia vulnerata (Hope) = C. uniramosa (Hope) = C. flaccida Mulsant = C. vishnu (Crotch) = C. krishna (Crotch) = C. buddha (Crotch); Coelophora saucia (Mulsant) = Lemnia melanota Mulsant; Rodolia sexnotata (Mulsant) = R. guerinii (Crotch); Scymnus nubilus Mulsant = S. curtisii Mulsant = S. lateralis Sicard. The following are new combinations: Afidentula stephensi (Mulsant) (from Epilachna); Horniolus guimeti (Mulsant) (from Scymnus); Rhyzobius waterhousei (Mulsant) (from Scymnus); Rodolia sexnotata (Mulsant) (from Epilachna).

NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF PYRAUSTINAE (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE), MAINLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)

1976 ◽  
Vol 108 (8) ◽  
pp. 873-884
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
South America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Name ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

AbstractThe following new genera and species are described: Glyphodes militaris n. sp., Borneo; Gypodes n. gen., type-species G. vexilliferalis n. sp., South America; Nagiella hortulatoides n. sp., Burma; Laniipriva n. gen., type-species L. antobliqua n. sp., Venezuela; Scaptesylodes n. gen., type-species Scaptesyle(?) incerta Semper, Philippine Is., and also including Scaptesylodes modica n. sp., Malaysia and Sumatra. Nagiella is proposed as a new name for Nagia Walker, 1866, not Walker, 1858. Nagia desmialis Walker, 1866, is the type-species of both nominal genera; Scopula quadrimaculalis Kollar, 1844, and Sylepta inferior Hampson, 1898, are referred to Nagiella as new combinations. The genus is differentiated from Pleuroptya Meyrick, 1890, and Haritalodes Warren, 1890.

On the Identity of the Cotton Capsid of Uganda

1947 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. C. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Material

For some years prior to 1935, the cotton Capsid of Uganda, which is now known to occur in several other parts of Africa also, was called Lygus vosseleri, Popp. In 1935, Mr. W. E. China of the British Museum (Natural History), after examining type material, published a note synonymising vosseleri of Poppius with simonyi of Reuter and concluded that the cotton Capsid previously identified by him as L. vosseleri, Popp., must therefore be called L. simonyi, Reut. This latter name has been in general use for the cotton Capsid since 1935 and is very widely known because of the great importance of the insect as a pest of cotton.

Multiductus physeteris gen. et sp. nov.—a New Diphyllobothriid Gestode from a Sperm Whale

1962 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm R. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Bile Ducts ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Sperm Whale ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Sperm Whales ◽  
Short Piece

The parasite was found in the bile ducts of three sperm whales, which were caught in the 1957–58 whaling season.As specimens were found independently in bile ducts of three whales this position in the host appears to be the natural habitat. All the worms were in pieces and incomplete. The pieces, in each case, totalled approximately 18 metres, 0·9 metres and 21 metres respectively. The holotype (length 18 metres) was probably complete except for a few terminal proglottids because it consisted of two very long pieces and one short piece which could be fitted together. The type material has been deposited in the British Museum (Natural History) Registered No. 1961·12·12·1 (Holotype) and 1961·12·12·1 (Para types).

scholarly journals A Model of Peloneustes philarchus

1922 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-310
Author(s):  
H. Neville Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

Plate XIV shows two photographs of a model I have recently made in order to show the outward aspect of Peloneustes philarchus, a pliosaur from the Oxford Clay. It is based on the complete mounted skeleton now in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, a part of the well-known Leeds collection. This skeleton has a length of 10 ft. 6 in., and my model is 23 in. long, so the scale is roughly about 1:5. No other museum possesses a mounted skeleton of this genus, the nearest thing to which is the Trinacromerum, described as a Cretaceous plesiosaur by Dr. S. W. Williston in his work on Water Reptiles of the Past and Present, Chicago, 1915, where a restoration is shown on p. 89, fig. 42. The specimen is in the Museum of the University of Kansas. This same Leeds collection has given us two fine mounted skeletons of the genus Cryptoclidus, of the family Elasmosauridæ, and now we have also this fine mounted skeleton of Peloneustes, which belongs to the Pliosauridae. Hence it is now possible for geologists to see at a glance the chief characteristics of these two families, and my hope is that this model may be of some use to students of Palæontology. In making the model I have had the advantage of much valuable assistance from my friend, Mr. E. Godwin, an accomplished sculptor, without whose assistance I doubt if it could ever have been completed; for when I attempted to model the head I found a task that was beyond my power to accomplish properly, not having had any training in the art of sculpture.

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