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Ateuchus Asperatus
''Ateuchus'' is a genus of some 70 species of New World scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) in the subfamily Scarabaeinae. Description Species range in shape from oval to very convex. The scutellum is concealed, the elytra have eight striae, and the clypeus is bidentate. Species The list is according to the Catalogue of Life. *''Ateuchus aeneomicans'' *''Ateuchus alipioi'' *''Ateuchus alutacius'' *''Ateuchus ambiguus'' *''Ateuchus apicatus'' *''Ateuchus asperatus'' *''Ateuchus balthasari'' *''Ateuchus benitojuarezi'' *''Ateuchus bordoni'' *''Ateuchus breve'' *''Ateuchus calcaratus'' *''Ateuchus candezei'' *''Ateuchus carbonarius'' *''Ateuchus carcavalloi'' *''Ateuchus carolinae'' *''Ateuchus cereus'' *''Ateuchus cernyi'' *''Ateuchus chrysopyge'' *''Ateuchus colossus'' *''Ateuchus columbianus'' *''Ateuchus confusus'' *''Ateuchus connexus'' *''Ateuchus contractus'' *''Ateuchus cujuchi'' *''Ateuchus earthorus'' *''Ateuchus ecuadorensis'' *''Ateuchus euchalceus'' *''Ateuchus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New World
The term ''New World'' is often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 33: "[16c: from the feminine of ''Americus'', the Latinized first name of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). The name ''America'' first appeared on a map in 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, referring to the area now called Brazil]. Since the 16c, a name of the western hemisphere, often in the plural ''Americas'' and more or less synonymous with ''the New World''. Since the 18c, a name of the United States of America. The second sense is now primary in English: ... However, the term is open to uncertainties: ..." The term gained prominence in the early 16th century, during Europe's Age of Discovery, shortly after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci concluded that America (now often called ''the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
