After a day of collections work we pose for a group picture in front of the Entomology building. From left to right: Julio Rivera, Roger Roy, Gavin Svenson, and Frank Wieland
Work has begun at the Museum national d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Frank Wieland has come in from Goettingen with Julio Rivera and Gavin Svenson arriving after 10 days at the British Museum. Monday we met Roger Roy and began working in … Continue reading
Martin was in for another day of mantis work while we continue to image types. Gavin inspecting Martin’s amber fossil of a Liturgusa (looks to be new!) Martin looking over loans destined to travel with Gavin and Julio. Julio imaging … Continue reading
We continue to image types at the British Museum. We are nearly through all primary targeted taxa and will be able to move on to secondary targets for future work and collaborator requests. Working in the Darwin Center has had … Continue reading
A visit to Down House.
Work begins at the British Museum of Natural History to image the type specimens of mantises held in the collection. Target taxa from the Neotropics and the Flower mantises are first up. Imaging begins with the Banks collection with a … Continue reading
After finishing up work in Hamburg with Frank and Kai, Julio spent a week in Berlin to image types and examine specimens in their extensive mantis collection. He has passed through the collection in Vienna and is now working on … Continue reading
Frederick R. Prete, Robert Theis, Justin L. Komito, Jessica Dominguez, Salina Dominguez, Gavin Svenson, Frank Wieland, Visual stimuli that elicit visual tracking, approaching and striking behavior from an unusual praying mantis, Euchomenella macrops (Insecta: Mantodea), Journal of Insect Physiology, Volume … Continue reading
B. Wipfler, F. Wieland, F. DeCarlo, T. Hörnschemeyer, Cephalic morphology of Hymenopus coronatus (Insecta: Mantodea) and its phylogenetic implications, Arthropod Structure & Development, Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 87-100, ISSN 1467-8039, 10.1016/j.asd.2011.06.005.
S. Yu. Storozhenko, T. I. Pushkar (2012) NOTES ON ORTHOPTERA AND MANTODEA ERRONEOUSLY RECORDED FROM ALTAISKII KRAI, RUSSIA. Far Eastern Entomologist. N 246: 12.