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Rove beetle musings: Working with a Darwin specimen
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014. Working with a Darwin specimen. Entomological collections for more than 12 years and I have not seen other specimens and (2) one of the specimens was collected by Darwin himself! Below is a photograph of the holotype of the new species, Darwinilus sedarisi. Described by Beulah Garner. Here is a close up of the head, where all the dust is visible in exquisite detail:. In a later post I will write about how I stumble upon the specimen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Rove beetle musings: August 2015
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Beetling in Tennessee and Georgia. Late last Spring, I finally started doing some serious fieldwork around here. It only took me seven years since arriving at UTC. Don't take me wrong, I had wonderful excuses: came in with two grants that required constant attention, had to do a bunch of new lecture preps, and get tenure. But they were excuses, and now I am kicking myself for not starting earlier. To the various arthropods subgroups. I was getting paid $3 per pitfall trap ...
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Rove beetle musings: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Here is a picture of Gillian adding a few hundred specimens of fully curated and databased beetles to our research collection. One of these days we will make our database accessible through the web but for now we can accommodate any requests for specimens with email. UPDATE 12/10/2014: The beetle collection is now online as part of the Symbiota. Collection of Arthropods Network and can be searched here. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. Lots of new projects going on.
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Rove beetle musings: Beetling in Tennessee and Georgia
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Beetling in Tennessee and Georgia. Late last Spring, I finally started doing some serious fieldwork around here. It only took me seven years since arriving at UTC. Don't take me wrong, I had wonderful excuses: came in with two grants that required constant attention, had to do a bunch of new lecture preps, and get tenure. But they were excuses, and now I am kicking myself for not starting earlier. To the various arthropods subgroups. I was getting paid $3 per pitfall trap ...
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Rove beetle musings: July 2015
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. Well, for better or worse my sabbatical has come to an end and the Fall semester is set to begin in four weeks. Earlier I wrote a blog post. About my sabbatical projects and now I have the sobering duty to report on it. So here is the abbreviated list of what I wanted to do:. NSF pre proposal submission. 2 Revision of Smilax. 4 Description of a new genus with multiple new species from South America. 5 Research trip to Copenhagen. 6 Review of Phanolinopsis. 7 Allometry in Triacrus.
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Rove beetle musings: August 2014
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Monday, August 25, 2014. Ten facts about rove beetles. I wrote a small blog post hosted by Christopher Buddle. The post is about what I thought were 10 really cool things about rove beetles. Go read it here. Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Celebrating synonymies in taxonomy. Taxonomists like to celebrate every new species described. If it happens that one described a new species. After a famous person or a particular feature. For a species, and do not produce a net decrease in the number of species. Prop...
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Rove beetle musings: January 2015
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Friday, January 16, 2015. A glorious new lab logo designed by Ainsley Seago @americanbeetles. If you want a T-shirt with the same design, these are available for sale here http:/ teespring.com/staph. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Twitter to the rescue. A short story on how twitter (and specifially Lu Musetti @osuc curator) really helped a lot with a project today, despite my obvious typo on the original tweet. Head and pronotum of Triacrus dilatus. But as shown above, the name Stenopolybia. My sabbatical o...
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Rove beetle musings: Unsolicited advice to administrators
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Unsolicited advice to administrators. Here are my two cents: telling a (bright, charismatic) student in public that he/she is the best thing that will happen to this University in the years to come, makes the rest of the student body and (I would guess) the faculty feel like crap. Labels: administrators saying stupid things. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cannibalistic behavior in Ontholestes cingulatus? Unsolicited advice to administrators. Administrators saying stupid things.
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Rove beetle musings: Cannibalistic behavior in Ontholestes cingulatus? [Updated]
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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Cannibalistic behavior in Ontholestes cingulatus? Few days ago a colleague brought six live specimens of Ontholestes. On an unrelated note, I could not find any records of O. murinus. Which has its native range in Europe) from TN, at least not in iDigBio, GBIF or Bugguide.net but of course that does not say much. So perhaps this is a first record for the state. There are records for TN for O. cingulatus. From the Smokies, but not from southern TN. But rather O. cingulatus.
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Rove beetle musings: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015. New species, new characters. Described a new species of Xanthopygina rove beetles in the Biodiversity Data Journal. I will write another post later to talk about that experience). The species is Scaponopselaphus diaspartos. From Colombia. This is the second species in the genus, the first ( S. mutator. Described by Sharp long time ago (1876) in the genus Trigonopselaphus. Was erected by Scheerpeltz (1972) when he realized that mutator. Mesotibia and mesotarsus of S. mutator.
