George Albert Boulenger was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses.
The Chera dynasty was one of the principal lineages in the early history of the present day states of Kerala and some parts of Tamil Nadu in southern India. Together with the Cholas of Uraiyur and the Pandyas of Madurai, the early Cheras were known as one of the three major powers (muventar) of ancient Tamilakam in the early centuries of the Common Era.
Look was a biweekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles. A large-sized magazine of 11 in × 14 in, it was a direct competitor to Life, which began publication months earlier and ended in 1972, a few months after Look shut down.
The family Corydalidae contains the megalopterous insects known as dobsonflies and fishflies. Making up about one dozen genera, they occur primarily throughout the Northern Hemisphere, both temperate and tropical, and South America.
Arctodiaptomus is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae, containing the following species:
Phragmataecia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae. Members of this genus are found throughout the world apart from North America.
Callyna is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Cleonymia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Giria is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae erected by James Farish Malcolm Fawcett in 1916. Its only species, Giria pectinicornis, was first described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1909. It is found from Liberia to Kenya
Spodoptera is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. Many are known as pest insects. The larvae are sometimes called armyworms. The roughly 30 species are distributed across six continents.
Ptilinus pectinicornis, the Fan-bearing Wood-borer, is a species of beetle in the family Ptinidae.
Ptilinus is a genus of death-watch beetles in the family Ptinidae. It is native to the Palearctic, the Near East, the Nearctic, the Neotropical and North Africa. There are at least nine described species in Ptilinus.
Centuria Insectorum is a 1763 taxonomic work by Carl Linnaeus, and defended as a thesis by Boas Johansson; which of the two men should be credited with its authorship has been the subject of some controversy. It includes descriptions of 102 new insect and crustacean species that had been sent to Linnaeus from British America, Suriname, Java and other locations. Most of the new names included in Centuria Insectorum are still in use, although a few have been sunk into synonymy, and one was the result of a hoax: a common brimstone butterfly with spots painted on was described as the new "species" Papilio ecclipsis.
Pediasia pectinicornis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Hans Rebel in 1910. It is found in Russia and western Central Asia.
The Zeuzerinae are a subfamily of the family Cossidae.
Phalacra perspicaria is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798. It is found in India.
Hippulin, also known as Δ8-14-isoestrone, as well as 14-isoestra-1,3,5(10),8-tetraen-3-ol-17-one, is a naturally occurring estrogen found in horses and an isomer of equilin. The compound, likely in sodium sulfate form, is a component of conjugated estrogens (Premarin), a pharmaceutical extract of the urine of pregnant mares, though it is present only in small amounts in pregnant mare urine. It has been reported by possess either equivalent estrogenic activity to that of equilin or only slight estrogenic activity. The compound was first described in 1932.
Schizotus is a genus of fire-colored beetles in the family Pyrochroidae. There are at least three described species in Schizotus.
Chauliodes is a genus of fishflies in the family Corydalidae. There are about five described species in Chauliodes.
Cladius is a genus of common sawflies in the family Tenthredinidae. There are about 17 described species in Cladius.
