• The ComstockNeedham system is a naming system for insect wing veins, devised by John Comstock and George Needham in 1898. It was an important step in...
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  • James George Needham (March 16, 1868 in Virginia, Illinois – July 24, 1957) was an American entomologist. After studying with John Henry Comstock at Cornell...
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    branches) are named according to a system devised by John Comstock and George Needham—the Comstock-Needham system: Costa (C) – the leading edge of the...
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  • surface of the rib Costal vein, a type of insect wing segment in the ComstockNeedham system Costa (disambiguation) Costas (disambiguation) Coastal Intercostal...
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    species have long oval forewings with very few cross veins (see Comstock-Needham system) but the hindwings are usually very small or even absent. The males...
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  • data storage devices Media, a group of insect wing veins in the Comstock-Needham system Growth medium, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience...
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    branches) are named according to a system devised by John Comstock and George Needham—the ComstockNeedham system: Costa (C) – the leading edge of the...
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  • community), a plant community A2, the second anal vein in the Comstock-Needham system of insect wing segment naming A-box 2 of insulin gene HLA-A2, a...
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    Lepidoptera Caterpillar – Larva of a butterfly or moth ComstockNeedham system – Naming system for insect wing veins External morphology of Lepidoptera –...
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    venation. The fore wing of 95% of ichneumonids has vein 2m-cu (in the ComstockNeedham system), which is absent in braconids. Vein 1rs-m of the fore wing is...
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  • prison warden John Henry Comstock (1849–1931), U.S. entomologist, co-creator of the Comstock-Needham system Keith Comstock (born 1955), major league...
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    the Comstock-Needham system with James George Needham. In 1898-1899, Comstock studied at the University of Leipzig. In 1893, John Henry Comstock and Simon...
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  • vertex, and they are especially diverse in New Guinea. Insect wing Comstock-Needham system Johnson, Kevin P.; Smith, Vincent S. (2021). "Psocodea species...
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    also the genera and families. The terminology is based on the Comstock-Needham system which gives the morphological description of insect wing venation...
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  • (distal) is the basicosta. The system of venation is simplified but is representative of the ComstockNeedham system, which was conceived in the late...
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  • of the anterior cerebral artery A1, the first anal vein in the Comstock-Needham system of insect wing vein naming Noradrenergic cell group A1 A1, a mating...
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    fossil data and speculation. The "Comstock-Needham system" designed by entomologists John Henry Comstock and George Needham describes these veins and their...
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    member of Ithonidae to be discovered in Baltic amber. Using the ComstockNeedham system for describing insect venation patterns, the Elektrithone CuP (cubitus...
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    markings on the hindwing around the M3 and Cu1 cells (see the ComstockNeedham system of insect wing nomenclature). The upper surface of the male wings...
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    pterostigma that is oval in shape. The D cell, as designated by the ComstockNeedham system, is notably elongated and narrowed, in comparison to all other...
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    pterostigma that is oval in shape. The D cell, as designated by the ComstockNeedham system, is not as elongated and narrowed as in E. bozenae having a length...
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    Cretaceous fossils found in both Brazil and England. Following the ComstockNeedham system, the wings of both genera show the apical end of the Rs vein fused...
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    species based on both the vein structure of the wings, using the ComstockNeedham system, and the preserved color patterning. As a form taxon, the parataxon...
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    pterostigma that is oval in shape. The Rs vein, as designated by the ComstockNeedham system, is slightly curved and about 5 times the length of the base segment...
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    pterostigma that is oval in shape. The Rs vein, as designated by the ComstockNeedham system, is shorter than the connected R2+3+4 Heinrichs, J; Schmidt, AR;...
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    other Baltic amber species. The Rs vein, as designated by the ComstockNeedham system, is as about one third the length of the connected R2+3+4 vein...
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    other Baltic amber species. The Rs vein, as designated by the ComstockNeedham system, is as then the length of the connected R2+3+4 vein. Heinrichs...
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    lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine. Comstock Publishing Company. obscurum cubiculum. Standage, H. C. (1773). "The Camera...
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    service, and the northern section of the Dedham Branch is used by the Needham Line. The Boston and Providence Railroad was incorporated June 21, 1831...
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    selling an issue of The American Mercury, which was banned in Boston by the Comstock laws. Mencken heaped scorn not only on the public officials he disliked...
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