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Gangara
''Gangara'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Species *''Gangara lebadea'' (Hewitson, 1886) - banded redeye *''Gangara thyrsis'' (Fabricius, 1775) - giant redeye *''Gangara sanguinocculus'' (Martin, 1895)Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra *''Gangara tumpa'' de Jong, 1992 Celebes The larvae feed on '' Arecaceae'', '' Musaceae'', '' Philydraceae'', '' Myrtaceae'', '' Poaceae'':- Calamus, Korthalsia, Arenga, Caryota, Cocos, Cyrtostachys, Elaeis, Eugeissona, Licuala, Livistona, Musa, Nypa, Philydrum, Psidium, Roystonea, Saccharum, Trachycarpus ''Trachycarpus'' is a genus of eleven species of palms native to Asia, from the Himalaya east to eastern China. They are fan palms (subfamily Coryphoideae), with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets ....Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni y L. M. Hernández (2010) ''HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangara Thyrsis
''Gangara thyrsis'', commonly known as the giant redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It breeds on a number of palm species. Range It is found in Sri Lanka and India. Description The male and female are dark chocolate brown. With a forewing consisting of bright yellow semi-transparent quadrate spots disposed triangularly, the first is large and occupying half the cell, the second also large, obliquely beneath and partly beyond, the third small and obliquely above the second; above the last are three smaller spots obliquely before the apex, the two upper being geminated; in some specimens beneath the subapical spots is a small dot, and on the posterior margin another, both similar to the rest; cilia at posterior angle brownish-white; hindwing with the cilia at the anterior angle brownish white. Underside, forewing irrorated (sprinkled) with grey scales near the apex, posterior margin pale brownish-white, spots yellow as above; hindwing irrorated with grey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangara Tumpa
''Gangara'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Species *'' Gangara lebadea'' (Hewitson, 1886) - banded redeye *''Gangara thyrsis'' (Fabricius, 1775) - giant redeye *'' Gangara sanguinocculus'' (Martin, 1895)Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra *'' Gangara tumpa'' de Jong, 1992 Celebes The larvae feed on ''Arecaceae'', ''Musaceae'', '' Philydraceae'', ''Myrtaceae'', ''Poaceae'':- Calamus, Korthalsia, Arenga, Caryota, Cocos, Cyrtostachys, Elaeis, Eugeissona, Licuala, Livistona, Musa, Nypa, Philydrum, Psidium, Roystonea, Saccharum ''Saccharum'' is a genus of tall perennial plants of the broomsedge tribe within the grass family. The genus is widespread across tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions in Africa, Eurasia, Australia, the Americas, and assorted oceani ..., Trachycarpus.Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni y L. M. Hernández (2010) ''HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangara Sanguinocculus
''Gangara'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. Species *'' Gangara lebadea'' (Hewitson, 1886) - banded redeye *''Gangara thyrsis'' (Fabricius, 1775) - giant redeye *'' Gangara sanguinocculus'' (Martin, 1895)Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra *''Gangara tumpa'' de Jong, 1992 Celebes The larvae feed on ''Arecaceae'', ''Musaceae'', '' Philydraceae'', ''Myrtaceae'', ''Poaceae'':- Calamus, Korthalsia, Arenga, Caryota, Cocos, Cyrtostachys, Elaeis, Eugeissona, Licuala, Livistona, Musa, Nypa, Philydrum, Psidium, Roystonea, Saccharum ''Saccharum'' is a genus of tall perennial plants of the broomsedge tribe within the grass family. The genus is widespread across tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions in Africa, Eurasia, Australia, the Americas, and assorted oceani ..., Trachycarpus.Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni y L. M. Hernández (2010) ''HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangara Lebadea
''Gangara lebadea'', the banded redeye, is a species of hesperid butterfly found in Southeast Asia. Description "Male. Wings above dark fuliginous brown ; anterior wings with a large discal patch of dark fuscous silky hair Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. The human body, apart from areas of glabrous skin, is covered in follicles which produce thick terminal and fi ...s ; posterior wings with the fringe pale ochraceous, and with two pale raised discal elongate glandular pouches situated on the second and third median veins. Wings beneath paler than above ; anterior wings with the disc darkest, the inner area palest, and with a long tuft of coarse pale ochraceous hairs on the submedian nervure ; posterior wings with a transverse discal pale ochraceous fascia. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. Antennae blackish, their hooked apices ochraceous."Watson, E. Y. (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Skippers
Grass skippers or banded skippers are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. Description and distribution With over 2,000 described species, this is the largest skipper butterfly subfamily and occurs worldwide except in New Zealand. About 50 percent of grass skippers live in the Neotropics. 137 species are native to North America. Around 38 species are native to Australia. Genera ''Ochlodes'' and ''Hesperia'' exist exclusively in the Holarctic. They are usually orange, rust, or brown in colour and have pointed forewings. Many species have dark markings or black stigmas on their forewings. Most members of this subfamily have an oval antenna club with an apiculus on the tip, although '' Carterocephalus'' and '' Piruna'' do not. The antennae generally has a sharp bend. Hesperiinae larvae feed on many different types of grasses and sedges and palms, though some species ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livistona
''Livistona'' is a genus of palms, the botanical family Arecaceae, native to southeastern and eastern Asia, Australasia, and the Horn of Africa. They are fan palms, the leaves with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets. '' L. speciosa'', locally called ''kho'', gives its name to Khao Kho District in Thailand. Taxonomy The genus was established by Robert Brown in his ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae'' (1810) to accommodate his descriptions of two species collected during an expedition to Australia. The names published by Brown were '' Livistona humilis'' and '' L. inermis'', describing material he had collected in the north of Australia, a partial taxonomic revision in 1963 nominated the first of these as the lectotype. His collaborator Ferdinand Bauer, the botanist and master illustrator, produced artworks to accompany Brown's descriptions, but these were not published until 1838. In 1983 a species of palm from Somalia was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musa (genus)
''Musa'' is one of two or three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains. Around 70 species of ''Musa'' are known, with a broad variety of uses. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbaceous plants. ''Musa'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the giant leopard moth and other ''Hypercompe'' species, including '' H. albescens'' (only recorded on ''Musa''), '' H. eridanus'', and '' H. icasia''. Description Banana plants represent some of the largest herbaceous plants existing in the present, with some reaching up to in height (59 feet (18 meters) in the case of ''Musa ingens''). The large herb is composed of a modified underground stem (rhizome), a false trunk of tightly rolled petioles, a network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeis
''Elaeis'' () is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms. They are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil. The African oil palm ''Elaeis guineensis'' (the species name ''guineensis'' referring to its country of origin) is the principal source of palm oil. It is native to west and southwest Africa, occurring between Angola and Gambia. The American oil palm '' Elaeis oleifera'' () is native to tropical Central and South America, and is used locally for oil production. Description Mature palms are single-stemmed, and can grow well over tall. The leaves are pinnate, and reach between long. The flowers are produced in dense clusters; each individual flower is small, with three sepals and three petals. The palm fruit is reddish, about the size of a large plum, and grows in large bunches. Each fruit is made up of an oily, fleshy outer layer (the pericarp), with a single seed (the palm kernel), also rich in oil. Species The two species, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugeissona
''Eugeissona'' is a clustering genus of flowering plant in the palm family native to Borneo, Thailand and Malaysia. The six monoecious species provide a wide range of local uses and are commonly called bertam or wild Bornean sago. The genus is the sole representative of the Eugeissoninae having very few obvious relatives; the hermaphrodite and staminate flowers are also found in '' Metroxylon'', however the other specialized characteristics are unique suggesting an early split and differentiation from other members of the Calameae.Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) ''Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore''. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. / Fossilized pollen belonging to these plants has been recovered in the lower and middle Miocene deposits in Sarawak. The name is from two Greek words meaning "good" and "roof", due to their common use in roof thatching. Description All of the ''Eugeissona'' palms will form above-ground s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Licuala
''Licuala'' is a genus of palms, in the tribe Trachycarpeae, commonly found in tropical forests of southern China, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, New Guinea and the western Pacific Ocean islands. Description and uses ''Licuala'' spp. are fan palms, with the leaves mostly circular in outline, sometimes undivided but more usually divided into wedge-shaped segments. ''Licuala acutifida'' is the source of cane for the walking stick nicknamed the ''Penang-lawyer'' by colonials, probably from the Malay phrase for a wild areca, although the term may also refer to the use of these canes as deadly knobkerries to assassinate litigious enemies. Several species of ''Licuala'' have been transferred into a new genus ''Lanonia''. Species ''Plants of the World Online'' currently (February 2021) includes 167 accepted species: * '' Licuala acuminata'' Burret * '' Licuala acutifida'' Mart. * ''Licuala adscendens'' Barfod & Heatubun * ''Licuala ahlidurii'' Saw * '' Licuala angustiloba'' Burr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street, but that may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836. Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company Museum London from 31 May 1848 on a "disestablished basis" and became a temporary writer and then an assistant curator at the East India Museum with a pension of £330 per annum from 31 December 1879. He had a daughter Rosa Martha Moore. He began compiling ''Lepidoptera indica'' (1890–1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asia in 10 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe. Many of the plates were produced by his son while some others were produced by E C Knight and John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nypa (plant)
''Nypa fruticans'', commonly known as the nipa palm (or simply nipa, from ms, nipah) or mangrove palm, is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the only palm considered adapted to the mangrove biome. The genus ''Nypa'' and the subfamily Nypoideae are monotypic taxa because this species is their only member. Description Unlike most palms, the nipa palm's trunk grows beneath the ground; only the leaves and flower stalk grow upwards above the surface. The leaves extend up to in height. The flowers are a globular inflorescence of female flowers at the tip with catkin-like red or yellow male flowers on the lower branches. The flower produces woody nuts arranged in a globular cluster up to across on a single stalk. The ripe nuts separate from the ball and float away on the tide, occasionally germinating while still water-borne. Fossil record While only one species of ''Nypa'' now exists, ''N. fruticans'', with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
