May 14th Meeting!

[Patrick Gorring]

To all Cambridge Entomological Club members and entomology enthusiasts, 

 

The next meeting of the CEC will be held on Tuesday May 14th at 7:30 PM in room 101 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Stefan Cover will present a talk entitled "Reviving the Endangered Art of Faunistics: Revising the Ants of North America."

 

Many disciplines claim to be foundational to the rest of biology: systematics and genetics are two obvious examples.  A good case can be made, however, that faunistics (the study of faunas), and its botanical equivalent (floristics), are basal to all other biological disciplines.  Unfortunately, faunistics is a dying art. Good faunistic studies are uncommon and training in the field is not available.  Faunistics combines alpha-taxonomy, biogeography, life-history studies, and natural history to produce a comprehensive, practical, useful portrait of a fauna.  Come and see how these various elements are being used to assemble a new, more comprehensive monograph of the ants of North America.

                                                                      **Our elections for next year will also be taking place at this meeting!**

The meeting is free and open to the public. Snacks will be provided and you are also welcome to join us at 6:00 PM for an informal pre-meeting dinner at Cambridge Common.

Please feel free distribute this announcement to other individuals or groups that you feel would be interested in this talk or in the Cambridge Entomological Club.