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--Apple-Mail-62--310033014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Steve, Nomina Nearctica has such information for all North American insects. The table of contents page takes you to all orders of insects: http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/nomina.htm Heteroptera http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/hemips/heterop.htm Homoptera http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/hemips/homop.htm Cheers! Chris On 21-Sep-10, at 1:15 PM, Steve Shaw wrote: > A while back, Chris Majka put me on to a site where one can check > the current approved 2-part Latin name of a N. American fly (Nomina > Diptera Nearctica). The lists of names there also come, usefully, > with the name of the individual who first named that species, and > the date of this. > > Does Chris or anyone else know a site that works similarly for bugs, > Hemiptera-Heteroptera? My colleague is back here looking at jumping > feats in jumping bugs (actually treehoppers, Membracidae) for which > we think we know the genus+species names for several species, but > don't know the discoverer/date. BugGuide.net doesn't give this info. > > Also, has anybody recently come across, in the same group, any > buffalo treehoppers recently (Ceresa tauriniformis), a rather large > spectacular green insect with 2 `horns` at the front that inhabits > low vegetation? I found a couple last year at this date, but we > have drawn a blank so far this year. > Steve > > > Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada * Research Associate: Nova Scotia Museum | http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/research-asfr.htm * Review Editor: The Coleopterists Bulletin | http://www.coleopsoc.org/ * Subject Editor: ZooKeys | http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index * Associate Editor: Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society | http://www.acadianes.org/journal.html * Editor: Atlantic Canada Coleoptera | http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/atlantic_coleoptera.html "Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet." - Charles Darwin --Apple-Mail-62--310033014 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi = Steve,<div><br></div><div>Nomina Nearctica has such information for all = North American insects. The table of contents page takes you to all = orders of insects:</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/nomina.htm">http://www.nearctica.c= om/nomina/nomina.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Heteroptera</b></div>= <div><span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" style=3D"white-space:pre"> <a = href=3D"http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/hemips/heterop.htm">http://www.nea= rctica.com/nomina/hemips/heterop.htm</a></span></div><div><span = class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space:pre"><b>H</b></span><b>omoptera</b></div><div><span = class=3D"Apple-tab-span" style=3D"white-space:pre"> <a = href=3D"http://www.nearctica.com/nomina/hemips/homop.htm">http://www.nearc= tica.com/nomina/hemips/homop.htm</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Cheer= s!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>O= n 21-Sep-10, at 1:15 PM, Steve Shaw wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>A = while back, Chris Majka put me on to a site where one can check the = current approved 2-part Latin name of a N. American fly (Nomina Diptera = Nearctica). The lists of names there also come, usefully, with the = name of the individual who first named that species, and the date of = this.<br><br>Does Chris or anyone else know a site that works similarly = for bugs, Hemiptera-Heteroptera? My colleague is back here looking = at jumping feats in jumping bugs (actually treehoppers, Membracidae) for = which we think we know the genus+species names for several species, but = don't know the discoverer/date. BugGuide.net doesn't give this = info.<br><br>Also, has anybody recently come across, in the same group, = any buffalo treehoppers recently (Ceresa tauriniformis), a rather large = spectacular green insect with 2 `horns` at the front that inhabits low = vegetation? I found a couple last year at this date, but we have = drawn a blank so far this = year.<br>Steve<br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br><= div apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><d