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Leptinopterus Spitzi
''Leptinopterus'' is a genus of stag beetles in the family Lucanidae. There are more than 30 described species in ''Leptinopterus'', found in South America. Species These 32 species belong to the genus ''Leptinopterus'': * ''Leptinopterus affinis'' Parry, 1872 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus asketus'' Grossi, 2009 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus assimilis'' Grossi, 2009 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus atramentarius'' Nagel, 1928 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus bicolor'' Luederwaldt, 1931 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus burmeisteri'' Arrow, 1943 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus caledoniaensis'' (Grossi, Racca-Filho & Vaz-de-Mello, 2003) (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus consimilis'' Möllenkamp, 1901 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus constricticollis'' Heller, 1924 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus elegans'' Jakovlev, 1900 (Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus erythrocnemus'' (Burmeister, 1847) (Argentina, Brazil) * ''Leptinopterus femoratus'' (Olivier, 1789) (Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana) * ''Leptinopterus fraternus'' Westwoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope (3 January 1797 – 15 April 1862) was an English clergyman, naturalist, collector, and entomologist, who founded a professorship at the University of Oxford to which he gave his entire collections of insects in 1849 (now known as the Hope Collection or in expanded form the Hope Entomological Collections, with around 3.5 million specimens). He described numerous species and was a founder of the Entomological Society of London in 1833 along with John Obadiah Westwood. Biography Frederick was the second son of John Thomas Hope of Netley Hall, Shrewsbury, and Ellen Hester Mary, only child and heiress of Sir Thomas Edwardes, and was born at their home in 37 Upper Seymour Street, London. He studied under the private tutor Reverend Delafosse and joined Christ Church, Oxford in 1817 and graduated with a BA in 1820. Presented to the curacy of Frodesley in Shropshire, he quickly retired as a result of ill health. Hope married, in 1835, the wealthy Ellen Meredith, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
