Frederick DuCane Godman DCL FRS FLS FGS FRGS FES FZS MRI FRHS was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. Along with Osbert Salvin, he is remembered for studying the fauna and flora of Central America.
Osbert Salvin FRS was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879–1915) with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America.
George Charles Champion was an English entomologist specialising in the study of beetles. He was the eldest son of George Champion.
David Sharp FRS was an English physician and entomologist who worked mainly on Coleoptera. He was among the most prolific publishers in the history of entomology with more than 250 papers that included seven major revisions and reviews and a highly influential work on the structure and modifications of the male genital structures among the beetle families. He was the editor of the Zoological Record for three decades.
The Esmeraldas antbird is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Iophanus is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae described by Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt in 1920. The single species of this genus, Iophanus pyrrhias, the Guatemalan copper, was described by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1887. It is found in Guatemala, the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, and apparently in a few other areas of the Neotropical realm.
Charles Owen Waterhouse was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
Henry Stephen Gorham FRES(1839–1920) was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
The Biologia Centrali-Americana is an encyclopedia of the natural history of Mexico and Central America, privately issued in 215 parts from 1879 to 1915 by the editors Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin, of the British Museum in London. It was begun by Alfred Maudslay publishing his first long-form description of the Archaeology at Chichen Itza.
The year 1880 in birding and ornithology.
Tetragonoderus mexicanus is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae. It was described by Chaudoir in 1876. It can be found in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Zopyrion is a genus of butterflies in the Hesperiidae (skipper) family and the Pyrgini tribe. The type species, Zopyrion sandace, was described in 1896 by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in their Biologia Centrali-Americana.
Syllepte coelivitta is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Brazil, Suriname, Mexico and Panama.
Machimia dolopis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).
Compsolechia suffectella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found in Mexico, Panama, Colombia and the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Espírito Santo.
Calycopis pisis, the pisis groundstreak, is a butterfly found in several countries in Latin America.
Lebia viridis is a species of predatory ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America, Guatemala, Mexico and on Cuba. It measure 5 to 7 mm. Diurnal; very common on flowers and vegetation.
Birds described in 1879 include the grey-headed silverbill, Macquarie rail, flame bowerbird, Cockerell's fantail, rufous-vented niltava, slaty cuckooshrike, Makira dwarf kingfisher, black-billed turaco, dusky-backed jacamar, buff-bellied tanager and the Santa Marta sabrewing, Rodrigues starling.
The year 1884 in birding and ornithology.
