<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Gromphas lemoinei Waterhouse 1891</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h2> <i>Gromphas lemoinei</i> Waterhouse, 1891</h2> <p> <i>Gromphas lemoinei</i> Waterhouse, 1891: 60 [1st July 1891].</p> <p>NAME-BEARING TYPE. — Holotype by monotypy (unknown sex), NHM.</p> <p>TYPE LOCALITY. — Venezuela: La Guaira: La Guaira.</p> <p>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).</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION. — Open savannas, pastures and river sandbanks in the Colombian and Venezuelan Llanos and associated areas.</p> </body> </html>