Hemiptera Argentina enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit Carolus Berg (Curonus) | Nature

ENTOMOLOGY is finding a new centre in Buenos Ayres; synchronous with the first part of Dr. Burmeister's treatise on the Lepidoptera of the Argentine Fauna, lately noticed in these columns,

has appeared the above work on the less popular and very much less known order Rhynchota. In common with many entomologists, we use this last term rather than that of Hemiptera, as written

by our author, for the following reasons. Linnæus founded the order Hemiptera, but included therein non-allied insects, to which the name Orthoptera was ultimately applied by Olivier, whilst

Fabricius was the first to separate the true “bugs,” under the name of Ryngota, which was afterwards linguistically purified into Rhynchota. Not only, however, did the great Swedish

naturalist first propound the order Hemiptera, but we are also indebted to Sweden, in the person of the late Prof. Stal, for gathering together with critical and exhaustive care the

descriptive work of an intervening century, and, by the help of a splendid collection formed at Stockholm, reducing the classification to a system, and making the study of the order a

possibility. It is this system which is followed by Prof. Berg in the modest work under notice, which is not a monograph, but rather an enumeration of the known species, accompanied by

descriptions of new ones. The work is therefore special in its character and classificatory in its aim; no biological conclusions are attempted nor structural details given, save such as

appertain to generic or specific diagnosis. Its value therefore is to the student of the local fauna and the generaliser in the study of geographical distribution.

Hemiptera Argentina enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit Carolus Berg (Curonus).

Bonariæ, ex typographiæ Pauli E. Coni. Hamburgo, in biblopolio gassmannii. (Frederking et Graf, 1879.)

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