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Coptops Undulata
''Coptops undulata'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1865. It is known from Malaysia and Java. Retrieved on 8 September 2014. Subspecies * ''Coptops undulata javanica'' Breuning, 1967 * ''Coptops undulata undulata'' Pascoe, 1865References Coptops, undulata Beetles described in 1865 Taxa named by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe Beetles of Asia {{Mesosini-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (1 September 1813 – 20 June 1893) was an English entomologist mainly interested in beetles. Biography He was born in Penzance, Cornwall and trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Appointed surgeon in the Navy he served on Australian, West Indian and Mediterranean stations. He married a Miss Mary Glasson of Cornwall and settled at Trewhiddle near St Austell where his wife's property produced china clay. Widowed in 1851 he settled in London devoting himself to natural history and entomology in particular. The results of collecting trips to Europe, North Africa and the Lower Amazons were poor and Pascoe worked mainly on insects collected by others. His entomological papers listed and described species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace (in ''Longicornia Malayana''), Robert Templeton and other assiduous collectors but not prolific writers on systematic entomology. He became a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1854, was president from 1864 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |