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New Laphriini References

July 25, 2015

I added three refernces (Reichardt (1929), Hardy and Preece (1927), and Linsley (1961)) to the Annotated Bibliography today. All three are quite old; but two were new to me. Reichardt (1929) was something I had, and while working on my PhD. had read and found indispensible, but for some reason had forgotten to add both to the Literature Cited in my dissertation, and to the Annotated Bibliography here when I began this site. The other two citations are apparently new to the asilid literature indices; they are not mentioned in Hull (1962) or in any of Lavigne's three literature updates (Lavigne (1999), Lavigne, Dennis, and Gowen (1978), and Ghahari, Lavigne, and Geller-Grimm (2007)). The full citations for the three papers are:

Reichardt, H. 1929. Untersuchungen über den Genitalapparat der Asiliden. Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. 135:257-301 (In German; with detailed description of both internal anatomy and external morphology of both male and female terminalia of the Palearctic Laphria flava Linnaeus).

Hardy, G. A. and W. H. A. Preece. 1927. Additional notes on some Cerambycidae of Vancouver Island. Pan-Pacific Entomol. 4: 61-67 (Record a larva of Bombomimus [sic] astur Osten-Sacken preying on a larva of the cerambycid Ulochaetes leoninus LeConte.).

Linsley, E. G. 1961. The Cerambycidae of North America. Part I. Introduction. Univ. Calif. Pub. Entomol. 18, 135 pp. (p. 31, cites Hardy and Preece (1927) (q. v). as recording a larva of Bombomimus [sic] astur Osten-Sacken preying on a larva of the cerambycid Ulochaetes leoninus LeConte.)

On another topic, I am currently in the process of tweaking the blog HTML code so that the various small "in-line" photographs have a variable, that is, a percentage, width instead of a fixed one; this make take a few days. Without this fix at low resolutions, e.g. 800x600 (which by the way is my personal favorite), the photos don't fit, and the blog looks awful. I am also making miscellaneous other small cosmetic changes.