Colophon: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Lucanidae
- Genus
- Colophon
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Colophon
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Colophon (city)
Colophon (; Ancient Greek: Κολοφών, romanized: Kolophṓn) was an ancient city in Ionia. Founded around the end of the 2nd millennium BC, it was likely one of the oldest of the twelve cities of the Ionian League. It was located between Lebedos (120 stadia to the west) and Ephesus (70 stadia to its south). Its ruins are south of the town Değirmendere in the Menderes district of İzmir Province, Turkey.
The city's name comes from the word κολοφών, "summit", (which is also the origin of the bibliographic term "colophon", in the metaphorical sense of a 'crowning touch',) as it was sited along a ridgeline. The term colophony for rosin comes from the term colophonia resina (Ancient Greek: Κολοφωνία ῥητίνη Kolophōnia rhētinē), resin from the pine trees of Colophon, which was highly valued for increasing friction of the bow hairs of stringed musical instruments.
...Colophon in languages:
- Chinese
- 尖顎鍬形蟲屬
- Chinese
- 開普鍬形蟲屬
- English
- Cape Stag Beetles
- English
- Cape Mountain Stag Beetles
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Colophon barnardi
- Colophon berrisfordi
- Colophon cameroni
- Colophon cassoni
- Colophon deschodti
- Colophon eastmani
- Colophon endroedyi
- Colophon haughtoni
- Colophon izardi
- Colophon kawaii
- Colophon montisatris
- Colophon nagaii
- Colophon neli
- Colophon oweni
- Colophon primosi
- Colophon stokoei
- Colophon struempheri
- Colophon switalae
- Colophon thunbergi
- Colophon westwoodi
- Colophon whitei