Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.
The Catholic Register is a Canadian weekly newspaper published by the Archdiocese of Toronto. Founded in 1893, it is the oldest English-language Catholic publication in Canada. Based in Toronto, Ontario, and circulated nationally, it is published weekly in tabloid format, with 47 issues per year.
Heliocopris is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Forty-seven of the fifty-two known species are found in Africa, but a few are found in southern and southeast Asia.
Ceroplesis is a genus of flat-faced longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae of the family Cerambycidae.
Apomecynini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
Saperdini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
Lamiini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
Crossotini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae. It was described by Thomson in 1864.
Morimopsini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae. It was described by Lacordaire in 1869.
Sophronica is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Leuconitocris is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Nupserha is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Phytoecia is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae,
Muisca cylindricollis is a species of checkered beetles of the genus Muisca in the subfamily of Clerinae or Enopliinae. It was first described by zoologist Adriano Lúcio Peracchi in 1962 as Cregya cylindricollis. The same author reclassified the species as Paracregya cylindricollis in 1964. Paracregya cylindricollis was reclassified as Muisca cylindricollis by Ekis in 1975. The genus is named after the Muisca from the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in central Colombia.
Nupserha vitticollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Hermann Julius Kolbe in 1893. It is known from Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Uganda, and Togo.
Phytoecia puncticollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Faldermann in 1837. It is known from Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Armenia, Turkey, Iran, and Turkmenistan. It feeds on Eryngium billardierei.
Phytoecia analis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781, originally under the genus Saperda. It has a wide distribution in Africa.
Phytoecia nigriventris is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Hermann Julius Kolbe in 1893, originally under the genus Blepisanis. It has a wide distribution in Africa.
Sitona cylindricollis, the sweetclover weevil, is a species of broad-nosed weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae. It is found in North America, where it is a pest of sweetclover and alfalfa. Larvae feed on the root nodules of these plants, eventually pupating near the soil surface.
Heteronychus is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Dynastinae.
