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John Obadiah Westwood: Ploeosoma Ellipticum   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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John Obadiah Westwood  (1805–1893)  wikidata:Q1236294 s:en:Author:John Obadiah Westwood
 
John Obadiah Westwood
Alternative names
Westwood; John Westwood; John O. Westwood; J. O. Westwood
Description British lepidopterist, archaeologist, illustrator and scientific illustrator
Date of birth/death 22 December 1805 Edit this at Wikidata 2 January 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Sheffield Oxford
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artist QS:P170,Q1236294
Title
Ploeosoma Ellipticum
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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:

‘It is confined exclusively to the forest districts of Madeira, where it would appear to range between the limits of from about 2500 to 5000 feet above the sea, occurring more especially, as might be expected, in those spots which, from the difficulty of access, have been least disturbed. It is found either beneath bark or in the interior of rotting wood,—occasionally even adhering to the undersides of wet decaying logs, particularly in regions where the moisture is excessive, and where consequently decomposition goes on the most rapidly. I have taken it at the base of the Pico Grande and in the Boa Ventura, during- February ; on the Lombo das Vacas, in June ; at the Lombo dos Pecegueiros, in July ; and at the Feijaa de Corte, at the beginning of August.’
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q7373646
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Accession number
529/1911
Credit line Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Inscriptions 122. Ploeosoma ellipticum, Woll. (Tab. IX. fig. 9.).
Source/Photographer Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
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