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Colemania
''Colemania sphenarioides'' also known as the Jola or Deccan grasshopper is a species of wingless grasshopper in the monotypic genus ''Colemania'' which is endemic to peninsular India. It sometimes causes damage to crops of sorghum. The genus is named after Leslie Coleman, who, along with K. Kunhikannan obtained the type specimens of the species from Honnali and studied the species in southern India. It was described by the Spanish entomologist Ignacio Bolívar. The species was noted by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, Maxwell Lefroy even before it was described as a new species. He had called it the Deccan grasshopper. It can be confused with the smaller ''Orthacris'' species found in the same area. References External links Image and labels of lectotype {{Taxonbar, from1=Q14623044, from2=Q10456683 Pyrgomorphidae Insects of India Monotypic Orthoptera genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Bolívar
Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (9 November 1850, Madrid – 19 November 1944, Mexico City) was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist, and one of the founding fathers of Spanish entomology. He helped found the ''Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural'' (Royal Spanish Natural History Society) in 1871, and was the author of several books and of over 1000 species. He also encouraged other naturalists to study entomology, José María de la Fuente being one example. In this field he wrote more than 300 books and monographs and described more than thousand new species and about 200 genera. After the Spanish Civil War he was exiled to Mexico when the nationalist government harshly repressed Republican militants and sympathisers. Here he was made ''Doctor honoris'' of the National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |