Fossils: The Key to the Past. Third Edition. The Living Past Series. By Richard Fortey. Published by Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington (DC), in association with The Natural History Museum, London. $55.00 (hardcover); $27.50 (paper). 232 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 1–58834–023–6 (hc); 1–58834–048–1 (pb). 2002.

2003 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-219
Author(s):  
Ben Waggoner
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Past

Typifications and taxonomic notes for Veronica subgen. Pseudolysimachium (Plantaginaceae) based on material from the Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest (BP)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 331 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIRK C. ALBACH ◽  
DÁNIEL PIFKÓ ◽  
ZOLTÁN BARINA
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Markers ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Northern Eurasia ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Important Species ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dry Steppe ◽  
Hungarian Natural History Museum

Veronica subgen. Pseudolysimachium is a group of 30 species ranging across northern Eurasia in various open habitats from dry steppe to swamps. It includes several horticulturally important species that have been crossed in the past. As such, it exemplifies a group with long taxonomic tradition, exemplified by more than 600 valid names, which also indicates its variability. In the process of identifying the evolutionary important units, molecular markers have started to help immensely. However, assigning names to identified significant groups of populations has been hindered by problems in typification. Here, we try to alleviate the problem for the taxa in southeastern Europe, which have been analyzed rigorously using AFLP fingerprints in the past, by lectotypifying 11 names and neotypifying four names, mostly based on specimens found in the Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest (BP). This allowed revising Veronica barrelieri with its three subspecies and synonyms.

First records of the genera Neocylloepus and Pilielmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) from Venezuela, with the description of Pilielmis shepardi sp. nov.

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4688 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-288
Author(s):  
THIAGO T. S. POLIZEI ◽  
MAXWELL V. L. BARCLAY
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Central America ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Neocylloepus Brown, 1970 and Pilielmis Hinton, 1971 are Neotropical genera of riffle beetles, mainly distributed in Central America and the north of South America. These genera are here reported for the first time from Venezuela, and a new species, Pilielmis shepardi sp. nov. is described and illustrated. The type material is housed in Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (MZSP), Natural History Museum, London, UK (BMNH), Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Maracay, Venezuela (MIZA), Michael A. Ivie Collection, Bozeman, Montana, USA (MAIC), and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA (USNM). 

scholarly journals Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 510 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN W. BROWN ◽  
DAVID ADAMSKI ◽  
RONALD W. HODGES ◽  
STEPHEN M. BAHR
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Label Data ◽  
Available Information

The collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., is second only to that of The Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum of Natural History), London, in the number of type specimens of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera). The Smithsonian houses 1,375 gelechioid types: 1,249 holotypes, 48 lectotypes, 1 neotype, 69 species represented by one or more syntypes, and 8 species represented by one or more pseudotypes (i.e., specimens identified as type by an accompanying label that are unlikely to be the type). Three former curators are responsible for the vast majority of the type specimens: August Busck, J. F. Gates Clarke, and Ronald W. Hodges. We present a list of the species for which a type is deposited in the USNM, organized alphabetically. For each species we provide an abbreviated reference to the original description and label data. This list represents the second contribution to a larger effort to make available information on the Lepidoptera type holdings of the USNM.

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