The Alloxysta (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) type material in the United States National Museum of Natural History and the Canadian National Collection of Insects

2013 ◽  
Vol 145 (6) ◽  
pp. 603-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mar Ferrer-Suay ◽  
Jesús Selfa ◽  
Juli Pujade-Villar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
National Museum ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
Nomina Dubia

AbstractAlloxysta Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) type material of 19 nominal species deposited in the Canadian National Collection of Insects (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and the United States National Museum of Natural History (Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America) were studied. Nine species are treated as valid: A. australiae (Ashmead, 1900), A. commensuratus Andrews, 1978, A. japonicus (Ashmead, 1904), A. lachni (Ashmead, 1885), A. longiventris Baker, 1896, A. minuscula Andrews, 1978, A. nothofagi Andrews, 1976, A. vandenboschi Andrews, 1978, and A. xanthopsis (Ashmead, 1896). The following synonymies are established: A. affinis (Baker, 1896) and A. quebeci Andrews, 1978 junior synonyms of A. castanea (Hartig, 1841); A. alaskensis Ashmead, 1902 and A. coniferensis Andrews, 1978 junior synonyms of A. macrophadna (Hartig, 1841); A. bicolor (Baker, 1896) and A. anthracina Andrews, 1978 junior synonyms of A. obscurata (Hartig, 1840); A. dicksoni Andrews, 1978 junior synonym of A. pilipennis (Hartig, 1840); and A. leguminosa (Weld, 1920), A. megourae (Ashmead, 1887), and A. rauchi Andrews, 1978 junior synonyms of A. brevis (Thomson, 1862). The type material of A. schlingeri Andrews, 1978 and A. halli Andrews, 1978 could not be found and we consider them as nomina dubia. Alloxysta vandenboschi Andrews is removed from synonymy with A. obscurata and considered a valid species. Comments on the type material are given. Complete redescriptions and images are presented for the valid species.

A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 2. The United States National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2309 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Type Material ◽  
National Museum ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
Line Drawings

This paper presents redescriptions of amphipods in the genus Metopa (Stenothoidae) in the type-collections of the United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Typeand paratype-material is used for Metopa spinicoxa and M. stelleri. The material used for M. dawsoni is from a station very close to the type locality, and identified by Barnard, who is the author of the species. We have used material from the Albatross expedition in 1906, identified by Shoemaker, for M. cristata and M. majuscula, both originally described by Gurjanova. All species are redescribed using line drawings, and comparisons with the original texts and figures.Key words:

Catalogue of the type specimens of Yponomeutoidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the United States National Museum of Natural History

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3573 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAE-CHEON SOHN ◽  
JON A. LEWIS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Primary Type

The collection of the United States National Museum of Natural History includes 183 type specimens of Yponomeutoidea: 106 holotypes, 24 lectotypes, 2 neotypes and 14 species described from syntypes. The primary type specimens of Yponomeutoidea are catalogued with annotations of their collecting data, specimen condition and, if any, uncertainty involving in the type series. Lectotypes are designated for 23 species comprising six Argyresthiidae: Argyresthia alternatella Kearfott, 1908, A. bolliella Busck, 1907, A. castaneella Busck, 1915, A. furcatella Busck, 1916, A. laricella Kearfott, 1908, A. libocedrella Busck, 1916; two Attevidae: Atteva exquisita Busck, 1912, Oeta comptana var. floridana Neumoegen, 1891; Bedelliidae: Bedellia minor Busck, 1900; two Glyphipterigidae: Abrenthia cuprea Busck, 1915, Glyphipterix semiflavana Issiki, 1930; two Heliodinidae: Lamprolophus lithella Busck, 1900, Scelorthus pisoniella Busck, 1900; three Lyonetiidae: Leucoptera erythrinella Busck, 1900, L. pachystimella Busck, 1904, L. smilaciella Busck, 1900; Praydidae: Eucatagma amyrisella Busck, 1900; three Yponomeutidae: Swammerdamia castaneae Busck, 1914, Zelleria celastrusella Kearfott, 1903, Z. gracilariella Busck, 1904; three putative yponomeutoids: Pliniaca bakerella Busck, 1907, Pl. sparsisquamella Busck, 1907, Podiasa chiococcella Busck, 1900.

scholarly journals A Catalogue of the Fishes of Illinois

1878 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Southern Illinois ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Summer

This catalogue is based primarily on the collections in the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, at Normal. These collections consist (a) of the material on which Mr. Nelson's list was based, and (b) of a large collection made by Professor Forbes during the past summer (1877), chiefly in the streams of southern Illinois. The writer's own collections in Illinois and adjacent states have also been drawn upon, as well as those contained in the United States National Museum. The various scattered notices of Illinois fishes have also been brought together as far as possible, thus giving all that is at present known of the distribution of the species within the limits of the state.

‘Aristocystites? subcylindricus var. de bohemicus Barrande, 1887’ is a valid species of Aristocystites (Echinodermata, Diploporita): description and taxonomic consequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (04) ◽  
pp. 822-826
Author(s):  
Christopher R.C. Paul ◽  
Ronald L. Parsley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
The United States ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Single Plate ◽  
Oral Area

AbstractBarrande erected the genus Aristocystites, type A. bohemicus Barrande, in 1887. He listed other questionable species, including “A.? subcylindricus var. de bohemicus.” Aristocystites subcylindricus has not been accepted apart from Bather who in 1919 designated a type specimen and made it the type species of the new genus Hippocystis. No specimens available to Barrande or Bather preserved the oral area necessary to characterize Hippocystis or A. subcylindricus. Specimen 436969A, in the United States National Museum of Natural History is a more complete specimen of A. subcylindricus and preserves the oral area. This shows that A. subcylindricus is a valid species, but has two ambulacral facets, a character unique to the genus Aristocystites. Aristocystites subcylindricus has tumid plates with obvious sutures, a rounded thecal base, and a gonopore surrounded by three plates. Aristocystites bohemicus has smooth plates, an obvious attachment scar aborally and a gonopore within a single plate. Both species have occasional horseshoe-shaped diplopores.UUID: http://zoobank.org/946c28a2-5783-4a6b-9111-416857bf9363

Techniques for collecting large vertebrate fossils

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 264-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Greenwald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Individual Animal ◽  
American Museum ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
Fossil Bones

When visiting the dinosaur displays in museums such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, or the United States National Museum of Natural History, one is overwhelmed by the abundance, diversity, and completeness of dinosaur skeletons. What is not obvious to the average visitor is that the majority of those skeletons are not from an individual animal. They are almost invariably composite skeletons containing bones from at least two individials, and many missing bones have been filled in with sculptured models constructed of plaster or fiberglass. How is it possible for paleontologists to reconstruct and mount these titanic skeletons? Perhaps even more fundamentally, how do such enormous fossil bones find their way to museums to begin with?

NOTES ON THE MENOPONIDAE OF NORTH AMERICA. I.

1947 ◽  
Vol 79 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Emerson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Type Material ◽  
National Museum ◽  
United States National Museum

This is the first of a series of papers dealing with the Menoponidae of North America, in which it is hoped that each genus can be discussed and illustrated. The author wishes to acknowedge the kindness of Dr. G. F. Ferris in lending the Stanford Collection, containing V. L. Kellogg's type material, which is being used in these studies; and of Dr. C. F. Mr. Musebeck, for the loan of material from the United States National Museum.

NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN AGELENID SPIDERS

1937 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 174-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving Fox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Museum ◽  
American Museum ◽  
United States National Museum ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
The University

The material on which the following paper is based is deposited in the United States National Museum to whose authorities I am indebted for the privilege of studying the collections of spiders in their charge. Several colleagues have been very generous in lending material and in giving advice. Particular thanks are due to Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Dr. W. J. Gertsch of the American Museum of Natural History, and Professor R. V. Chamberlin of the University of Utah.

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