The Generic Names of the Beetle Family Staphylinidae
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Excerpt from The Generic Names of the Beetle Family Staphylinidae: With an Essay on Genotypy The problems surrounding the use of generic names in the family Staphylinidae are surely no different from those encountered in other groups of animals. They include such matters as synonymy, homonymy, emendation, errors in spelling, misapplication zoologically, validation, date, author, and priority. Nevertheless, this family presents unusual opportunities for demonstration of the principles involved, because of its large size, its homogeneity, and the extreme range in size and complexity of its component groups. The study of this family, as far as all aspects except the description of new forms are concerned, has been relatively neglected. This has been due largely to the difficulties that do actually accompany such study. The difficulties are the small average size of the individuals and the unusual lack of readily observable characters in some sections. These have been real difficulties, as shown by the general belief among coleopterists that this is a difficult family and by the unsatisfactory condition of nearly all collections of the family. The study of all groups of beetles has suffered from a long series of difficulties arising from historical factors, inadequate knowledge of biological principles, and illogical sequence of investigations. The early development of classification systems based upon single structures, such as the tarsi or the trophi, tended to blind students to other structures and to prevent a consideration of the relative importance of other characters. In most groups in which there has been any study of comparative anatomy, or any unbiased search for characters throughout the body with evaluation of relative stability, these have come long after a classification had been established. In most cases the implications of the morphological study have not been followed by the taxonomists in the classification and definition of the groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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