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Chedra Mimica
''Chedra mimica'' is a tiny moth of the family Batrachedridae known from Hawaii. Taxonomy It was first collected by Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in the Waianae Mountains of Oahu together with '' Chedra microstigma'' in the beginning of the 20th century. These Lord Walsingham used, both species mixed together, to construct a type series which he used to describe the new ''Batrachedra microstigma'' in 1907. In 1978 Elwood Zimmerman Elwood Curtin Zimmerman (December 8, 1912 – June 18, 2004) was an American entomologist best known for his two multivolume series: ''Insects of Hawaii'' published by the University of Hawaii Press and ''Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curcul ... noticed this type series contained two species. He re-described ''Batrachedra microstigma'' and placed it the genus '' Chedra'', and described ''C. mimica'' based on some of Lord Walsingham's specimens as well as new specimens from Kona District, Hawaii. The holotype was collected in Kona above ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elwood Zimmerman
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman (December 8, 1912 – June 18, 2004) was an American entomologist best known for his two multivolume series: ''Insects of Hawaii'' published by the University of Hawaii Press and ''Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)'' published by Australia's CSIRO.Upton & Oberprieler 2004. Biography During his school years in the hills above Oakland, California, where his father was a woodworker, he developed such a passion for entomology that he acquired the nickname "Bugs." He would go on summer camping trips organized by the Boy Scout leader "Bugsy" Cain, and developed a circle of boyhood friends who went on to become entomologists, including Robert L. Usinger, Judson Linsley Gressitt, and E. Gorton Linsley. At first he collected butterflies, but began to concentrate on weevils at the suggestion of a professor at the nearby University of California, Berkeley. During a camping trip in 1930, he discovered a new species of weevil that became the subject ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |