ANTICOSTI COLEOPTERA

Paleoecology of Llandovery conodonts, Anticosti Island, Que¤bec

Anticosti Island, Que¤bec, has perhaps the most fossiliferous and complete Llandovery (Early Silurian) sequence in the world. The undeformed limestones are well exposed and yield extremely well preserved conodonts whose taxonomy and biostratigraphy has been studied in detail. In addition to documenting the general temporal and spatial distribution of Llandovery conodonts, a set of 107 conodont ...

Intestinal Coleoptera

Intestinal Coleoptera

Intestinal Coleoptera

of children by these very peculiar beetles. Whether they enter by the mouth as an egg and undergo development into larva and pupa and finally into the adult beetle within the intestines, or whether they enter per rectum while children defecate in the open is not certain. Senior-White was the first to note that Onthophagus bifasciatus. Fb. (Copridae) infested the intestines. I have since observe...

Walker's Eleodes (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

The type specimens of five species of Eleodes described by Francis Walker from British Columbia, Canada, were studied in order to establish their true identity. The synonymy of Eleodes convexicollis Walker and E. conjunctus Walker with E. obscurus (Say); that of Eleodes latiusculus Walker with E. humeralis LeConte;  and that of Eleodes binotatus Walker with  Eleodes hispilabris (Say) is confirm...