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Pronyssa Andrsi
''Pronyssa'' is a genus in the beetle family Cicindelidae. There are about eight described species in ''Pronyssa''. Species These eight species belong to the genus ''Pronyssa'': * ''Pronyssa andrsi'' J.Moravec & Wiesner, 2001 (Nepal) * ''Pronyssa assamensis'' Sawada & Wiesner, 1999 (India) * ''Pronyssa hennigi'' (W.Horn, 1898) (India) * ''Pronyssa ingridae'' Sawada & Wiesner, 1999 (Laos) * ''Pronyssa kraatzi'' (W.Horn, 1899) (India) * ''Pronyssa manaslucola'' Wiesner, 2003 (Nepal) * ''Pronyssa montanea'' Sawada & Wiesner, 1999 (India) * ''Pronyssa nodicollis'' Bates, 1874 (China, Nepal, India, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam) References Cicindelidae {{Cicindelidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Walter Bates
Henry Walter Bates (8 February 1825, in Leicester – 16 February 1892, in London) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection on the return voyage when his ship caught fire. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,712 species (mostly of insects) of which 8,000 were (according to Bates, but see Van Wyhe) new to science. Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, ''The Naturalist on the River Amazons''. Life Bates was born in Leicester to a literate middle-class family. However, like Wallace, T.H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer, he had a normal education to the age of about 13 when he became apprenticed to a hosiery manufacturer. He joined the Mechanics' Institute (which had a library), studied in his spare t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |