The Entomological Collection of Thomas Say

Mawdsley, Jonathan R.

doi:10.1155/1993/59616

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“…It is well known among entomologists that the insect collection of Thomas Say (1787–1834) is largely lost. Say was one of the founders of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP) and described over 1500 species of insects from specimens that he had collected on various expeditions or had acquired from other collectors (Weiss & Ziegler, ; Mallis, ; Mawdsley, ). Most of Say's specimens were poorly preserved and began to deteriorate from the attack of various insect pests after he moved to New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825.…”

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Wool carder bees of the genusAnthidiumin the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): diversity, host plant associations, phylogeny, and biogeography

González

Griswold

2013

Zool J Linn Soc

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Bees are among the most important pollinators of flowering plants in most ecosystems. Recent concerns about population decline worldwide have highlighted the urgent societal need for species‐level systematic work that facilitates assessments of the status of pollinators and pollination services. This is a comprehensive, broadly comparative study on the diversity, biology, biogeography, and evolution of Anthidium Fabricius, 1804, one of the most diverse megachilid genera, containing more than 160 species worldwide. Herein, the Western Hemisphere species are revised. All 92 recognized species, including the two adventive species Anthidium oblongatum (Illiger, 1806) and Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus, 1758), are described and illustrated. A neotype for Anthidium emarginatum (Say, 1824) and lectotypes for 16 names are designated; five names are relegated to synonymy, three names are revalidated, previously unknown males of three species are described, and 21 new species are proposed. Identification keys as well as information on the distribution, seasonality, nesting biology, and host plants are provided. The relationships of the Anthidium subgenera and all Western Hemisphere species are explored using a cladistic analysis based on adult external morphological characters. The subgenus Callanthidium Cockerell, 1925, renders Anthidium s.s. paraphylectic in the analysis, and is here synonymized. The resulting phylogenetic hypothesis is used to examine possible biogeographical patterns, origins of the Western Hemisphere fauna, and the evolution of morphological traits associated with foraging for pollen from nototribic flowers and exudates from glandular trichomes. To facilitate the transfer of knowledge to non‐specialists, some digital outputs and web‐based products, including a geo‐referenced specimen database consisting of more than 20 000 records, species pages, and interactive digital keys, were also developed during this study. © 2013 The Linnean Society of London

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Wool carder bees of the genusAnthidiumin the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): diversity, host plant associations, phylogeny, and biogeography

González

Griswold

2013

Zool J Linn Soc

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“…Type specimen.-Say's type was lost or destroyed (Mawdsley 1993), but we see no reason to designate a neotype unless a song-recorded, molecularly studied male from close to the type locality becomes available.…”

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Systematics and Acoustics of North AmericanAnaxipha(Gryllidae: Trigonidiinae)

Walker

Funk

2014

Journal of Orthoptera Research

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“…The whereabouts of the primary type of E. scutellaris is unknown, but in all likelihood it has been destroyed, along with much of Thomas Say's entomological collection (LeConte 1859:v-vi, xix (footnote)). Mawdsley (1993) lists 71 surviving insect specimens housed in the MCZ of 56 species described by Say, upon which Say's original descriptions are probably based, that have yet to be recognized as primary types. Of the four specimens of Hymenoptera listed, all are Ichneumonidae.…”

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(CCDB) in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Barcode Index Numbers (BINs -automated code numbers given to unique barcode clusters) were assigned to sequences as short as >300 bp, although formal recognition of AbstractThe species of the cleptoparasitic (cuckoo) bee genus Epeolus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae) occurring in Canada are revised. A total of 12 species are confirmed, with one additional species (E. ilicis Mitchell) listed as possibly occurring in Canada. Morphological comparisons of primary types and continuous variation within species, in addition to DNA barcode sequence analysis of recently collected specimens from across the range of each species support the following proposed synonymies: E. lanhami Mitchell, syn. n., and E. montanus (Cresson), syn. n., under E. americanus (Cresson); E. gabrielis (Cockerell), syn. n., E. geminatus Cockerell and Sandhouse, syn. n., and E. hitei Cockerell, syn. n., under E. compactus Cresson; E. arciferus Cockerell, syn. n., E. beulahensis Cockerell, syn. n., E. lutzi Cockerell, syn. n., E. lutzi dimissus Cockerell, syn. n., and E. pilatei Cockerell, syn. n., under E. minimus (Robertson); and E. humillimus Cockerell, syn. n., E. rubrostictus Cockerell and Sandhouse, syn. n., E. rufomaculatus Cockerell and Sandhouse, syn. n., and E. tristicolor Viereck, syn. n., under E. olympiellus Cockerell. The synonyms of E. americanus, E. compactus, and E. minimus proposed here were first proposed by Richard L. Brumley in an M.Sc. thesis published in 1965, but have until now not been validated. A dichotomous identification key to the Canadian species is presented, and their biology and life history is discussed and contrasted with that of Triepeolus Robertson and other cuckoo bees. barcode compliant sequences requires a minimum length of 500 bp Hebert 2007, 2013). To validate species designations of specimens and to check for contamination errors, sequences with unique BINs were compared to one another and to short, noncompliant sequences that clustered with compliant ones in a neighbour-joining (NJ) tree, based on Kimura's two-parameter distance model (Kimura 1980). Cases involving change in taxonomic status always prioritized morphological evidence over DNA barcoding, and barcoding merely confirmed what was already suspected to be continuous intraspecific variation in morphology. BINs are available for all species recorded in Canada except E. ilicis and are provided in the taxonomic treatment for each species. Sequences for "barcoded" specimens are published in BOLD (http://www. barcodinglife.org) in the "Epeolus of North America" project, and will be made available on GenBank (http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) following a revision of all Nearctic Epeolus species north of Mexico.Anatomical and taxonomic terms used generally follow Michener (2007), except I use the terms frontal and vertexal areas instead of frons and vertex, respectively, following Prentice (1998) and Dumesh and Packer (2013), as these are not clearly delimited structural features. Puncture density is quantified...

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The Entomological Collection of Thomas Say

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Wool carder bees of the genusAnthidiumin the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): diversity, host plant associations, phylogeny, and biogeography

Wool carder bees of the genusAnthidiumin the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): diversity, host plant associations, phylogeny, and biogeography

Systematics and Acoustics of North AmericanAnaxipha(Gryllidae: Trigonidiinae)

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