coleopters

In some taxa, like coleopters, endemicity reaches 70 percent of the native species found in the Canary Islands.

Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests 2008

But recently he had specialized more and more on insects, especially coleopters, and of these he had the finest collection in the United States.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903

John inherited his father's versatility, but like his father, and in much greater degree, specialized on coleopters, and became, as is well known, the most distinguished coleopterist in the country.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903

Along the banks of the stream grew wood flowers, many of which have no Latin names, but are none the less known to golden bugs, to butterflies, shaded, jewelled, and bronzed, and to thousands of coleopters powdered with gold and gleaming with facets of steel.

An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878

(_Chrysophora chrysochlora_), always found arboreal, like the majority of tropical coleopters; they look like emerald gems clinging to the branches.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853

The coleopters should be pierced on the right wing (clytze), the hymenopters, dipters and lepidopters in the middle of the waist, the orthopters and nevropters a little behind, between the base of the wings.

Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1833

For the small kinds, it is better not to fix them in this manner, and to preserve those whose shell is hard enough, the coleopters and the most part of hemipters, for example, it is sufficient to place them in little bottles or in flacks full of rolls of paper (or even cotton, if paper is wanting).

Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1833