Calvisia Albosignata
Calvisia may refer to: * Calvisia gens, a Roman family called gens Calvisia * ''Calvisia'' (insect), a genus of stick insects in the subfamily Necrosciinae See also *Calvisio Calvisio is a ''frazione'' (and parish) of the municipality of Finale Ligure, in Liguria, northern Italy. Geography Present-day Calvisio is located near the Sciusa, mainly on the right banks of the stream. There also stands the parish church, ...

Calvisia Gens
The gens Calvisia was an ancient Roman family, which first rose to prominence during the final decades of the Republic, and became influential in imperial times. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Calvisius Sabinus in 39 BC.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, p. 689 (" Calvisius Sabinus").Dixonp. 225 Origin The nomen ''Calvisius'' is probably based on the Latin adjective ''calvus'', meaning "bald". Both ''Calvus'' and its diminutive, ''Calvinus'', were common Roman surnames.Chase, p. 110. With respect to their place of origin, Ronald Syme begins a survey of the evidence by stating, "Calvisii might issue from any region of Italy except old Latium." He lists a placename, "villa Calvisia" in Southern Etruria, amongst the properties of a Hadrianic consular; two Calvisii attested in Puteoli, and fifteen named in sources from Transpadane Italy, but concludes " t they lead nowhere"; the evidence is frustratingly inconclusive. ...
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Calvisia (insect)
''Calvisia'' is a genus of stick insects in the subfamily Necrosciinae Necrosciinae is a subfamily of the stick insect family Lonchodidae, with its greatest diversity in South-East Asia. The subfamilies Necrosciinae and Lonchodinae, formerly part of Diapheromeridae, were determined to make up a separate family and ... (tribe Necrosciini). Species are known to be distributed in temperate and tropical Asia. Species The ''Phasmida Species File'' lists: Subgenus Calvisia Stål, 1875 * '' Calvisia acutegranulosa'' (Redtenbacher, 1908) * '' Calvisia conicipennis'' (Bates, 1865) * '' Calvisia costata'' (Thunberg, 1815) * '' Calvisia fessa'' Redtenbacher, 1908 * '' Calvisia kneubuehleri'' Bresseel & Constant, 2017 * '' Calvisia lineata'' Redtenbacher, 1908 * '' Calvisia medogensis'' Bi, 1993 * '' Calvisia sammannani'' Seow-Choen, 2016 * '' Calvisia sangarius'' (Westwood, 1859) - type species (as '' Necroscia sangarius'' Westwood) * '' Calvisia torquata'' (Bates, 1865) Subgenus C ...
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