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Apamea Cogitata
''Apamea cogitata'', the thoughtful apamea, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is native to North America, where it can be found across Canada from Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ... to British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, and in the western United States to California. The wingspan is about 40 mm. Adults are on wing from June to September depending on the location. There is one generation per year. This was formerly considered to be a subspecies of ''Apamea dubitans''. External linksImages Apamea (moth) Moths of North America Moths described in 1891 {{Apamea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bernhardt Smith
John Bernhardt Smith (November 21, 1858 – March 12, 1912) was an American professor of entomology who specialized in systematics and economic entomology while also serving as the State Entomologist of New Jersey. Smith is remembered in insect taxonomy for the conflict that he had with Harrison Dyar. Biography Smith came from a German family of cabinet makers and was born in New York, studied locally, and went to study law and practiced from 1880 to 1884 and changed fields to work as a special agent in the US Department of Agriculture under C.V. Riley. He was an avid insect collector and his father, Johann Schmitt (Anglicized as John Schmitt) made special cabinet boxes for his son's collections. Smith joined the National Museum in Washington in 1886 as an assistant curator of insects. Along with C.V. Riley, Smith helped in standardizing the sizes of the insect cabinet boxes with his father, and these boxes continue to be known as "''Schmitt boxes.''" In 1889 he succeeded G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
