Distributional Records of North American Corixidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

1955 ◽  
Vol 87 (11) ◽  
pp. 474-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Lansbury
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Canadian Department

During 1954, I had the opportunity of examining a large collection, circa 3,500 of unidentified Corixidae which had been accumulated in the Canadian Department of Agriculture over a period of years. These notes consist of a list of species identified, with observations where pertinent when these records are new state or country records compared with the full lists of localities given in H. B. Hungerford's ‘The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere’ 1948, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. Vol. XXXII, pp. 1-827.

NEW GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN MUSCOID DIPTERA

1943 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Reinhard
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Canadian Department

The following descriptions of five new genera and species of Tachinidae are based upon material received from several sources as indicated below. Most of the species have been standing in my collection for a number of years pending the accumulation of longer series. My thanks are due A. R. Brooks for the loan of some additional material recently discovered in the extensive tachinid collections in the Canadian Department of Agriculture. The type or paratype specimens, of the two species represented by this material, are returned for deposit in the Canadian Collection, as detailed under the descriptions.

scholarly journals NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN HESPERIDÆ

1892 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 119-120
Author(s):  
Eugene Murray Aaron
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
The Past

From time to time for the past ten years I have been in the habit of receiving, from various collectors in this country and Europe, speciments of North American Hesperidœ for comparison and identification with my large collection, which has been justly famous for its completeness. As this collection is now no longer in my possession, being now the property of my friend C. B. Aaron, of Philadelphis, and as I have transferred my allegiance from entomology to ethnology it has occurred to me that it will be well fro me to give here to the students of the Hesperidœ the benefit of such tables, nots teh compilations as have, in years past, been of value to me in the identification of the species in this difficult family.

Sophistry, Security, and Socio-Political Structures in the American Revolution; or, Why Jamaica did not Rebel

1986 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
British Empire ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
North American ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Political Structures

Britain's most important American colonies did not rebel in 1776. Thirteen provinces did declare their independence; but no fewer than nineteen colonies in the western hemisphere remained loyal to the mother country. Massachusetts and Virginia may have led the American revolution, but they had never been the leading colonies of the British empire. From the imperial standpoint, the significance of any of the thirteen provinces which rebelled was pale in comparison with that of Jamaica or Barbados. In the century before 1763 the recalcitrance of these two colonies had been more notorious than that of any mainland province and had actually inspired many of the imperial policies cited as long-term grievances by North American patriots in 1774. Real Whig ideology, which some historians have seen as the key to understanding the American revolution, was equally understood by Caribbean elites who, like the continental, had often proved extremely sensitive on questions of constitutional principle. Attacks of ‘frenzied rhetoric’ broke out in Jamaica in 1766 and Barbados in 1776. But these had nothing whatsoever to do with the Stamp Act or events in North America.

New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4891 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-112
Author(s):  
FRANK E. KURCZEWSKI ◽  
RICK C. WEST ◽  
CECILIA WAICHERT ◽  
KELLY C. KISSANE ◽  
DARRELL UBICK ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
North American ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
South American ◽  
New Host ◽  
United States Mexico ◽  
First Time ◽  
Taxonomic Order

New and unusual host records for 133 species and subspecies of Pompilidae predominantly from the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America are presented in modified taxonomic order. First-time species host records are given for Calopompilus Ashmead, Pepsis Fabricius, Hemipepsis Dahlbom, Priocnessus Banks, Entypus Dahlbom, Pompilocalus Roig-Alsina, Sphictostethus Kohl, Auplopus Spinola, Ageniella Banks, Eragenia Banks, Aporus Spinola, Poecilopompilus Ashmead, Tachypompilus Ashmead, Anoplius Dufour, Priochilus (Fabricius) and Notocyphus Smith. New host spider families are introduced for Calopompilus, Pepsis, Hemipepsis, Priocnessus, Entypus, Cryptocheilus Panzer, Priocnemis Schiødte, Auplopus, Ageniella, Eragenia, Aporus, Tachypompilus, Anoplius, Priochilus and Notocyphus. Eight host spider families are reported from the Western Hemisphere for the first time: Halonoproctidae (Notocyphus dorsalis dorsalis Cresson); Dipluridae (Pepsis pretiosa Dahlbom, P. montezuma Smith, P. infuscate Spinola, P. atripennis Fabricius, P. martini Vardy, Priocnessus vancei Waichert and Pitts); Nemesiidae (Pepsis pallidolimbata Lucas, P. viridis Lepeletier, P. spp., Pompilocalus hirticeps (Guérin), Sphictostethus gravesii (Haliday), S. striatulus Roig-Alsina, Priocnemis oregona Banks); Barychelidae (Eragenia sp.); Paratropididae (Pepsis stella Montet); Trechaleidae (Hemipepsis toussainti (Banks), Entypus unifasciatus cressoni (Banks), Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Say), Tachypompilus unicolor cerinus Evans, Priochilus gloriosum (Cresson); Desidae (Ageniella accepta (Cresson), Sphictostethus isodontus Roig-Alsina) and Selenopidae (Priochilus scrupulum (Fox), Tachypompilus erubescens (Taschenberg) or xanthopterus (Rohwer)). The first known host records for the rare South American pompilid genera Chirodamus (Lycosidae: Lycosa sp.) and Herbstellus (Nemesiidae: Diplothelopsis cf bonariensis Mello-Leitão) are presented. 

NOTES ON THE ASILID GENERA BOMBOMIMA AND LAPHRIA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES AND TWO NEW VARIETIES (DIPTERA)

1929 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
S. W. Bromley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Species Descriptions ◽  
Canadian Department

The collection from which this study was made was obtained through the courtesy of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, and was of particular interest in that it not only contiained excellent series of many of the described forms but also several undescribed species. Descriptions of the latter are submitted in the present paper together with notes on some of the others.

scholarly journals The Role of Synoptic Waves in the Formation and Maintenance of the Western Hemisphere Circulation Pattern

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (24) ◽  
pp. 10259-10274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Tan ◽  
Ming Bao ◽  
Dennis L. Hartmann ◽  
Paulo Ceppi
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
North American ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Circulation Pattern ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Northeast Pacific ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Pacific Climate Variability

Previous studies have demonstrated that the NAO, the leading mode of atmospheric low-frequency variability over the North Atlantic, could be linked to northeast Pacific climate variability via the downstream propagation of synoptic waves. In those studies, the NAO and the northeast Pacific climate variability are considered as two separate modes that explain the variance over the North Atlantic sector and the east Pacific–North American sector, respectively. A newly identified low-frequency atmospheric regime—the Western Hemisphere (WH) circulation pattern—provides a unique example of a mode of variability that accounts for variance over the whole North Atlantic–North American–North Pacific sector. The role of synoptic waves in the formation and maintenance of the WH pattern is investigated using the ECMWF reanalysis datasets. Persistent WH events are characterized by the propagation of quasi-stationary Rossby waves across the North Pacific–North American–North Atlantic regions and by associated storm-track anomalies. The eddy-induced low-frequency height anomalies maintain the anomalous low-frequency ridge over the Gulf of Alaska, which induces more equatorward propagation of synoptic waves on its downstream side. The eddy forcing favors the strengthening of the midlatitude jet and the deepening of the mid-to-high-latitude trough over the North Atlantic, whereas the deepening of the trough over eastern North America mostly arises from the quasi-stationary waves propagating from the North Pacific. A case study for the 2013/14 winter is examined to illustrate the downstream development of synoptic waves. The roles of synoptic waves in the formation and maintenance of the WH pattern and in linking the northeast Pacific ridge anomaly with the NAO are discussed.

North America’s Commerce in a Revolutionary Era

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Matson
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
British Empire ◽  
North American ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Far East ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Spanish Caribbean ◽  
North Americans ◽  
The North

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article. A long revolutionary era beginning in the 1770s and continuing into the 1820s profoundly altered North American commerce. The North American movement for independence from the British empire disrupted channels of trade in people and goods as embargoes and blockades shut down major transition points between continents or islands and the Atlantic Ocean, privateering crews of different empires seized vessels, wartime activities challenged the slave trade, and the economic fortunes of many international traders forced them to migrate, find new avenues of commerce, or retire altogether. Only a handful of well-placed merchants prospered during the North American Revolution by securing military supply contracts or engaging in illicit commerce, especially in the French and Spanish Caribbean. Despite many North Americans’ expectations for a rapid recovery after the Peace of Paris, recovery and new prosperity emerged slowly. Old connections to England, despite the revolutionary separation, recovered most quickly; but these connections were available to a small percentage of well-placed merchants, and often they were built on new foundations with new immigrants to North America. Moreover, England’s policy makers were intent upon limiting North American trade to parts of the world—especially the Caribbean—where the British empire hoped to control markets. A spike in vessel and crew seizures ensued during the 1780s. Within the Western Hemisphere, the French and Haitian revolutions also deeply unsettled many essential ties to British, French, and Spanish Caribbean markets, so that by the end of the 1790s North American merchants who wished to stay in commerce had been compelled to diversify their ports of call and seek new markets in South America, the Gulf Coast, and northern Europe. Meanwhile, the slave trade revived. When North American commerce began to flourish after the 1790s, revolutions in South America had a far less deleterious effect on the movement of goods and people. By then, the demand for provisions during the global spread of the Napoleonic wars, the opening of markets in the Far East, the expanding exporting potential of North Americans (especially flour and cotton), and their re-export commerce (especially sugar) rose above some of the constraints of earlier years.

scholarly journals The Illusion of Isolation: The Gullah/Geechees and the Political Economy of African Culture in the Americas

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 949-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lorand Matory
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
North American ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
The Political ◽  
Test Case ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Locus Classicus

The Gullah/Geechee people are the locus classicus for the study of “African survivals” in North American culture. As such, they have been saddled with the duty to generate universal principles for the explanation of Africans’ acculturation, adaptation, and cultural resistance in the Western hemisphere, and they provide the main North American test case for explanatory principles generated elsewhere in the Americas. Yet, the well-studied Gullah/Geechee case, like the Afro-Atlantic world generally, holds untapped lessons about the historical genesis of cultures and ethnic identities worldwide. Is isolation the normal precondition and conservator of cultural and ethnic distinctiveness? And do the enslaved and their descendants choose their ancestors’ ways and identities mainly when and where isolation from the oppressor has made the oppressor's cultural alternatives unavailable? The existing literature on the Gullah/Geechee people of the southeastern U.S. coast and islands says “yes” to these questions, which also stand at the heart of both black Atlantic and global cultural history.

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