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Tag Archives: genitalia
Return of the Taxa
Those who might follow my blog may have noticed a rather long lull in my posts. For this I apologize, but life happens, and my attentions were elsewhere. I hope to make up for that in the coming months. In the meantime, … Continue reading
Posted in Fieldwork, Revising Bembidiina, Taxonomic Process
Tagged Bembidion, curtulatum, genitalia, Lindrochthus, Mount Tamalpais, Plataphus, wickhami
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Lindrochthus at Mount Tamalpais
In an earlier post, I wrote about how the distinctive subgenus Lindrochthus, viewed in the literature as consisting of the single species Bembidion wickhami, was actually at least two species. And those two species live together at Mount Tamalpais, just … Continue reading
Posted in Fieldwork, Revising Bembidiina, Taxonomic Process
Tagged Bembidion, genitalia, Lindrochthus, Mount Tamalpais
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Rainy-season beetles
The rains have returned to the Pacific Northwest. During the last few days a rain-drop symphony has been playing in my house in the woods, and the douglas fir and oaks are weeping in thanks for fall’s arrival after a … Continue reading
Another surprise in Lionepha
Two days ago I had a post about an unexpected species of Lionepha in the Sierras, of which I became aware when I looked at a specimen that my graduate student John Sproul caught on the South Fork of Bishop … Continue reading
Posted in Revising Bembidiina, Taxonomic Process
Tagged DNA taxonomy, genitalia, Lionepha, Sierra Nevada
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A surprise in Lionepha
In the late spring I was in the final stages of a manuscript about the genus Lionepha. This paper will describe the new species I have mentioned earlier, describe the male of Lionepha chintimini for the first time, document DNA … Continue reading
Posted in Fieldwork, Revising Bembidiina, Taxonomic Process
Tagged DNA taxonomy, genitalia, Lionepha, microsculpture
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Mirror, mirror, …
… but not on the wall. This image hurts my brain. A lot. I suspect that other folks who study Bembidion have sore brains as they look at this, too. Why?
Posted in Morphological Techniques, Revising Bembidiina
Tagged genitalia, mirrored development
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David Maddison
The Subulate Palpomere 