File:Cossyphodes Wollastonii - John Obadiah Westwood - 500 1911.jpg
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[edit]John Obadiah Westwood: Cossyphodes Wollastonii
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Cossyphodes Wollastonii |
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Thomas Vernon Wollaston published this drawing in his book ‘Insecta Maderensia’ in 1854. In the book he thanks Westwood for providing the illustrations, ‘Particularly, however, would I draw attention to the valuable help which I have received from J. O. Westwood, Esq., whose pencil has been so elaborately employed in the figures which I am thus enabled to attach, and by whom many of the minutest of the dissections were accomplished, — with a degree of delicacy, moreover, to which I did not myself at the commencement of this Work (though I have since succeeded in anatomizing the larger portion of them, likewise) lay claim.’ Wollaston wrote the following about this species: ‘Apparently extremely rare,—or, at any rate, local ; and, from its peculiar habits, somewhat difficult to obtain. A single example was first discovered by myself, on the 8th of May 1848, beneath a stone on the flat ledge of ground immediately above the Praya Formoza, near Funchal,—the only specimen in fact which I have hitherto taken. It is to the researches of Professor Heer of Zurich that we are indebted for a knowledge of its habits, who informs me that he has captured it in the nests of Oecophthora pusilla both at the Gorgulho and even in Funchal itself. Having collected a portion of the earth in which the nests of that ant were situated, and having carefully placed it in his house in Funchal, he states that he used frequently to observe a specimen of Cossyphodes adhering to the small loose stones which he had allowed to remain on the surface. But, even when thus sought after in its legitimate position, it would seem to be far from common, since Professor Heer, during his winter's residence in the island, did not obtain, I believe, more than seven or eight examples in all. It runs with such prodigious velocity that more than ordinary dexterity is required in securing it,—which, for a blind insect (if indeed its eyes be in reality altogether wanting, as would certainly appear to be the case) is very remarkable.’ |
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1848 date QS:P571,+1848-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q7373646 |
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500/1911 |
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Credit line | Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions | 121. Cossyphodes Wollastonii. (Tab. III. fig. 3.). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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