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Spania (fly)
''Spania'' is a genus of snipe flies of the family Rhagionidae. ''Spania'' are small - 2 to 3.0 mm, dark brown to black in colour. Species *''Spania americana'' Charles Willison Johnson, Johnson, 1923 *''Spania kyushuensis'' Nagatomi & Saigusa, 1982 *''Spania naitoi'' Nagatomi & Saigusa, 1982 *''Spania nigra'' Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Meigen, 1830 *''Stylospania lancifera'' Richard Karl Hjalmar Frey, Frey, 1954 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q7573102 Brachycera genera Rhagionidae Diptera of Europe Diptera of Asia Diptera of North America Diptera of Australasia Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wilhelm Meigen
Johann Wilhelm Meigen (3 May 1764 – 11 July 1845) was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera. Life Early years Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha Bick. His parents, though not poor, were not wealthy either. They ran a small shop in Solingen. His paternal grandparents, however, owned an estate and hamlet with twenty houses. Adding to the rental income, Meigen's grandfather was a farmer and a guild mastercutler in Solingen. Two years after Meigen was born, his grandparents died and his parents moved to the family estate. This was already heavily indebted by the Seven Years' War, then bad crops and rash speculations forced the sale of the farm and the family moved back to Solingen. Meigen attended the town school but only for a short time. He had learned to read and write on his grandfather's estate and he read widely at home as well as taking an interest in natural history. A lodge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |