…Fabre spent more than 40 years studying this insect, and the details of his research are mainly described in volumes 1 and 5 of “Insects”. The fact that this insect is abundant on the hills of Les Angles, across the Rhône River from Avignon, is written in “Avignon Animals”, compiled by Fabre himself and published by the Calbet Museum in Avignon in 1870. However, there are no sheep or donkeys kept in Les Angles now, and therefore no damselflies can be seen. However, recent research has shown that the beetle found in Les Angles and studied by Fabre is not a true dung beetle, but a similar, much smaller species of the same genus, S. typhon . … *Some of the terminology used in "The Animal History of Avignon" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…ファーブルは40年以上の歳月をかけてこの虫を調べ,その経過は《昆虫記》の,主として第1巻と第5巻に詳しく述べられている。ローヌ川をはさんでアビニョンの対岸にあるレザングルの丘に,この虫が多産することは,ファーブル自身がまとめ,1870年にアビニョンのカルベ博物館から出版された《アビニョンの動物誌》に書かれているが,今ではレザングルには羊,ロバなどは飼われておらず,したがってクソムシの姿も見ることはできない。ところで最近の研究によると,レザングルに産し,ファーブルが研究したものは,真のヒジリタマオシコガネではなく,同属ではるかに小型の近似種S.typhonであるという。… ※「《アビニョンの動物誌》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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