Lanterna Rally

Author: Lee L. Buchanan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781390467451

Excerpt from The Species of Pantomorus of America North of Mexico The white-fringed beetle (fig. 1, A) was first described by Boheman in 1840 as Naupaetus Zeueoloma. It belongs to the Pantomorus Naupaetus complex, which includes 240 or more named Species, indigenous to the New World. Of these about 193 are natives Of South America and about. 45 of Mexico or Central America. At present the majority Of the South American species are cataloged in N aupactus, most of the others in Pantomorus. This publication deals with the taxonomy of the 14 species and varieties now known from the United States; all these, for reasons stated later, are assigned to Pantomorus. Pantomorus is a relatively natural group but Naupaetus is hetero geneous and some Of its Species will have to be transferred to Pan tomonus or to other genera. Sharp and Champion 3 were perhaps the first to recognize adequately the broad scope Of Pantomorus, and its close affinity with N aupactus they separated the two genera chiefly by the absence Of wings and well developed humeri in Pantomms and their presence in N aupactus.' These are the best distinguishing characters yet discovered, though they are often difficult to use and they nearly fail in two or three South American species which have wings intermediate in size between the rudimentary and the fully developed forms. There is little doubt that the pantomorus-naupaetus series eventually will be reclassified along lines other than those based on wing characters, but until all the species can be critically studiedthe wing and humeral distinctions must be used for dividing the entire complex into two vaguely defined genera, N avupactus and Pantomonus All the species from the United States are fiightless and are therefore placed in Pantomonus, ' they form, however, four rather distinct segregates which are here called subgenera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.