Gromphas lemoinei Waterhouse 1891
Creators
- 1. Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531 - 980, Curitiba, Paraná (Brazil) & Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 (United States)
Description
Gromphas lemoinei Waterhouse, 1891
Gromphas lemoinei Waterhouse, 1891: 60 [1st July 1891].
NAME-BEARING TYPE. — Holotype by monotypy (unknown sex), NHM.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Venezuela: La Guaira: La Guaira.
ETYMOLOGY. — The masculine singular genitive of the proper noun Lemoine, a French surname meaning ‘the monk’ (‘Le Moine’). Waterhouse (1891) did not explain after whom this eponym was formed, but I suspect it may have been the French entomologist Victor Lemoine (b.?-1897), the only Lemoine who I found associated with entomology in the late 19th century. Alas, apart from the fact that he was based in Paris and was a pioneer in the application of radiography in the study of arthropods (Lemoine 1897), almost nothing is known about Victor Lemoine (Anonymous 1897; Constantin 2012; Groll 2016).
DISTRIBUTION. — Open savannas, pastures and river sandbanks in the Colombian and Venezuelan Llanos and associated areas.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHM
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Gromphas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Waterhouse
- Species
- lemoinei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gromphas lemoinei Waterhouse, 1891 sec. Cupello, 2024
References
- WATERHOUSE C. O. 1891. - New Scarabaeidae in the British Museum: a fifth contribution. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Sixth Series 8 (43): 53 - 61. [publication date for nomenclatural purposes: 1 st July 1891 (Evenhuis 2003)] https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 19244729
- LEMOINE [V.] 1897. - Sur l'application des rayons ̿ oentgen a l'etude des Articules. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France [year 1897]: 87 - 89. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9210571
- ANONYMOUS 1897. - Seance du 14 avril 1897. Presidence M. A. Grouvelle. Necrologie. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France [year 1897]: [129]. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9210617
- CONSTANTIN R. 2012. - Memorial des coleopteristes francais. ̿ etirage de decembre 2012. Bulletin de Liaison de l'Association des Coleopteristes de la Region Parisienne 14 (supplement): [1] - [116].
- GROLL E. K. 2016. - Lemoine, Victor, in ANONYMOUS (ed.) Biographies of the entomologists of the world. Available online at: https: // sdei. senckenberg. de / biographies /