Browsing by Author "Cazier, Mont A."

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Additions to the buprestid fauna of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1562
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1952) Cazier, Mont A.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.
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The Anthribidae of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Coleoptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 1741
(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1955) Valentine, Barry Dean.; Cazier, Mont A.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Rindge, Frederick H.; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.
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Ants of the Bimini island group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1671
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1954) Smith, Marion R. (Marion Russell), 1894-; Cazier, Mont A.
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The Asilidae and Mydaidae of the Bimini Islands, Bahamas, British West Indies (Diptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 1644
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1953) Curran, Charles Howard, 1894-1972.; Cazier, Mont A.; Rindge, Frederick H.; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.
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The Buprestidae of north central Mexico (Coleoptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 1526
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1951) Cazier, Mont A.; David Rockefeller Mexican Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 1947)
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The Buprestidae of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1517
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1951) Cazier, Mont A.; Rindge, Frederick H.; Lerner Marine Laboratory.
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The butterflies of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Lepidoptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 1563
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1952) Rindge, Frederick H.; Cazier, Mont A.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.
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The centipeds (Chilopoda) of South Bimini, Bahama Islands, British West Indies. American Museum novitates ; no. 1576
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1952) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (Ralph Vary), 1879-1967.; Cazier, Mont A.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.; Lerner Marine Laboratory.
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The Cerambycidae of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Coleoptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 1588
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1952) Cazier, Mont A.; Lacey, Lionel.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Rindge, Frederick H.; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.
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The checkered beetles of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Coleoptera, Cleridae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1547
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1952) Vaurie, Patricia.; Cazier, Mont A.; Rindge, Frederick H.
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Diurnal and seasonal behavior patterns among adults of Protoxaea gloriosa (Hymenoptera, Oxaeidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2509
(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1972) Linsley, E. Gorton (Earle Gorton), 1910-; Cazier, Mont A.
"Each season, males of Protoxaea gloriosa (Fox) emerge from the ground and establish territories near nectar plants several days before the females appear. The first seasonal emergence of females occurs near midmorning and they immediately seek nectar. During this initial flight mating normally takes place, usually on the nectar flowers. Within 10 days to two weeks most of the females have constructed burrows, are collecting pollen, and are provisioning cells. Activity begins at approximately sunrise when working such plants as Solanum and Cassia and continues for two or three hours before collecting ceases and the burrows are closed (they are opened briefly near midday for an additional nectar flight). When working flowers of Kallstroemia, which do not open until well after sunrise and produce an overabundance of pollen, collecting by some individuals may extend to noon or later. As the season progresses male territories shift with changes in female pollen-collecting patterns but this activity usually peaks near midmorning after most collecting has ceased. By early afternoon, the previously antagonistic males begin to cluster in large aggregations on selected plants where they spend the night. Temperatures in the clusters fluctuate but, during observations through the night, mostly ranged from 20.5°C. to 22.5°C. with air temperatures ranging downward from 23.5°C. to 18°C. When disturbed, the cluster temperatures rose suddenly by 8 to 10°C"--P. [1].
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The Ephydridae (Diptera) of the Bahama Islands. American Museum novitates ; no. 1817
(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1956) Wirth, Willis Wagner.; Cazier, Mont A.; Rindge, Frederick H.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.; Hayden, Ellis B.; Giovannoli, Leonard.; Rabb, George B. (George Bernard), 1930-2017.; Van Voast-American Museum of Natural History Bahama Islands Expedition (1952-1953)
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Foraging behavior of some bees and wasps at Kallstroemia grandiflora flowers in southern Arizona and New Mexico. American Museum novitates ; no. 2546
(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1974) Cazier, Mont A.; Linsley, E. Gorton (Earle Gorton), 1910-
"At sporadic intervals in the fall the southwestern desert landscape is emblazoned with large, conspicuous, usually orange-colored flowers of the annual Kallstroemia grandiflora (Torrey) Gray. These flowers produce an abundance of pollen and nectar, which is exploited in three ways by insects belonging to 12 different families and 46 species, including bees, wasps, flies and butterflies. The plant is of special interest from the standpoint of pollination ecology, as both the plant and some of the insects have adaptations in behavior that are not always mutually beneficial. The flowers of K. grandiflora are allogamous for most of the daily flowering period and become autogamous as the flowrrs close. Thus, they can be either cross- or self-pollinated, with the former evidently favored. The flowers have little or no odor, a color range within 'bees yellow' (500-650 [microns]), and a strong ultraviolet reflective pattern on both upper- and under-surfaces. Insects are evidently attracted by color and ultraviolet reflection, with the latter so arranged as to form nonreflective, dark target, 'nectar guide' areas on both upper- and under-surfaces. One group of bees and wasps gather pollen and nectar from the top of the flower, effecting both cross- and self-pollination in the process. A second group of smaller bees and wasps gather nectar from within the flower but avoid contact with the sexual portions and are therefore of no importance in pollination. The third group of honeybees and several other larger bees and wasps, extract nectar from the underside of the flower completely avoiding the sexual parts of the plant and therefore play no role in pollination. Even though the plant gains no direct benefit from this last group of insects it nevertheless supplies them with a sepal nectar guide that directs them to the nectaries. It is proposed that these species may be contributing to the economy of the plant by reducing the quantity of available nectar so that the pollinators have to visit more flowers to get their full nectar supply"--P. 3.
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The genera Chrysina and Plusiotis of north central Mexico (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1516
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1951) Cazier, Mont A.; David Rockefeller Mexican Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History 1947)
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The Gryllacrididae and Gryllidae of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies (Orthoptera). American Museum novitates ; no. 1618
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1953) Strohecker, Henry F. (Henry Frederick), 1905-; Cazier, Mont A.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.
"Of the 20 species of Orthoptera listed above, three are apparently endemic to the Bahamas. Of the others only three are unknown from Cuba or other islands of the Antilles. A number of the remaining 14 have wide distribution in North America, but their occurrence in the Antilles makes unnecessary the supposition that they have colonized the Bahama Islands directly from North America. The facies of this segment of the Bahaman fauna is preponderantly Antillean"--p. 11.
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Homoptera from the Bahama Islands. American Museum novitates ; no.1698
(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1954) Metcalf, Zeno Payne, 1885-1956.; Cazier, Mont A.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Rindge, Frederick H.; Vaurie, Charles.; Vaurie, Patricia.; Oliver, James Arthur, 1914-
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Insect collecting in the Bimini island group, Bahama Islands. American Museum novitates ; no. 1565
(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1952) Vaurie, Patricia.; Cazier, Mont A.; Gertsch, Willis John, 1906-; Vaurie, Charles.
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Introduction to quantitative systematics. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 93, article 5
(New York : [American Museum of Natural History], 1949) Cazier, Mont A.; Bacon, Annette Louise.
"Inasmuch as the frequency distributions of many biological data approach the normal probability curve as developed by statisticians it is often possible for the taxonomist to adopt various statistical measures based on this type of distribution in the systematic analyses of biological material. The ones most commonly employed by the systematist to analyze normally distributed data are those of the central tendency (mean, median, and mode), of variation (standard deviation), of variability (coefficient of variability), and of reliability (standard errors). The mean is an expression of the average tendency in the sample and serves as a point on the variation scale from which the measure of variation can be oriented. The median and mode are measures of central tendency used primarily in comparing the frequency distribution of the sample with the normal curve to reveal possible skewness. The standard deviation is the measure of variation with which the systematist estimates the range of variation in the population from which a particular sample was taken. The population range is calculated as the mean of the sample plus and minus three standard deviations of the sample (M [plus or minus] 3 S.D.) which gives the systematist the range of variation within which would occur approximately 100 per cent of the total population represented by that sample. The coefficient of variability enables the systematist to establish the relationship between the variation and the mean size of the sample, giving the relative variability which can then be used in making comparisons. The standard errors indicate the reliability of the preceding measures and are used to show the systematist the theoretical range of variation of any of these measures, within which range would be found the same measures of additional samples drawn from the same population. With these statistical tools and a knowledge of the biology and distribution of the population, the systematist should be able to establish more accurately the classification status of his samples"--P. [387].
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New species and notes on flies belonging to the genera Rhaphiomidas and Apiocera (Diptera, Apioceratidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1696
(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1954) Cazier, Mont A.
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New species and notes on flies belonging to the genus Apiocera (Diptera, Apioceridae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2837
(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1985) Cazier, Mont A.
"Five new species are added to the North American Apiocera fauna bringing the total to 69 taxa, 63 species, and six subspecies. Revised keys to the species are presented as are descriptions of several previously unknown females, i.e., augur, alleni, exta, and voragocolis. The status of Osten Sacken's Mexican augur is clarified, more definite locations for exta are made known, and the distribution of voragocolis is extended out of the gorge of the Grand Canyon. The new species are: Apiocera mulegeae, warneri, varia, constricta, and lavignei"--P. [1].