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Pale Clouded Yellow
''Colias hyale'', the pale clouded yellow, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, (also known as the yellows and whites) which is found in most of Europe and large parts of the Palearctic. It is a rare migrant to the British Isles and Scandinavia. The adult wingspan is .Heath J. & Maitland Emmet A. (1989) ''The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland'', Vol. 7, Part 1, Harley Books Ltd., Colchester: Description The upperside of the male is more or less light lemon yellow, with the black marginal and submarginal bands more or less complete on both wings; the black middle spot of the forewing large, in centre of hindwing an orange-yellow double spot; base of wings more or less dusted with black. The underside is bright yellow, being somewhat lighter on the forewing, with small marginal and larger submarginal red-brown spots; the middle spot of the forewing black with pale centre, the hindwing bearing a double spot which is mother-of-pearl colour, encircled by a double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies Of Europe
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran Superfamily (taxonomy), superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossils have been dated to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago, though molecular evidence suggests that they likely originated in the Cretaceous. Butterflies have a four-stage Biological life cycle, life cycle, and like other Holometabola, holometabolous insects they undergo Holometabolism, complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, expands its wings to dry, and flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the tropics, have several generations in a year, while othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colias
''Colias'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. They are often called clouded yellows in the Palearctic and sulphurs (a name also used for other coliadine genera) in North America. The closest living relative is the genus '' Zerene'', which is sometimes included in ''Colias''. This genus occurs throughout the Holarctic, including the arctic regions. They are also found in South America, Africa, China and India. Their caterpillars feed on certain Fabaceae, for example vetches (''Vicia''). The adults forage for nectar. most are thus beneficial by keeping weeds at bay, some occasionally become nuisance pests on crops like alfalfa. In some species, the wings of males have brilliant ultraviolet reflection, while those of females do not. Adults of both sexes have various colour forms. Males are particularly conservative based on their genitalia structures. These structures are difficult to identify making it difficult to classify the Colias. Most if not all species o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holotype
A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several examples, but explicitly designated as the holotype. Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), a holotype is one of several kinds of name-bearing types. In the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and ICZN, the definitions of types are similar in intent but not identical in terminology or underlying concept. For example, the holotype for the butterfly '' Plebejus idas longinus'' is a preserved specimen of that subspecies, held by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. In botany and mycology, an isotype is a duplicate of the holotype, generally pieces from the same individual plant or samples from the same genetic individual. A holotype is not necessarily "ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay Natural History Society
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research. It supports many research efforts through grants and publishes the '' Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. Many prominent naturalists, including the ornithologists Sálim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley, have been associated with it. History British hunters in Bombay organized a hunting group around 1811, their activities included riding with foxhounds and shooting. A Bombay Hunt was supported by Sir Bartle Frere from 1862. A natural history society was begun, possibly as spinoff from the Bombay Geographical Society, in 1856 by Doctors Don (of Karachee), Andrew Henderson Leith (surgeon), George Buist, and Henry John Carter along with Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, then a registrar of the Supreme Court. The group did not last more than three years. On 15 September 1883 eight men interested in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colias Erate
''Colias erate'', commonly known as the eastern pale clouded yellow, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from south-eastern Europe, through Turkey over central Asia up to Japan and Taiwan. To the south, its range stretches to Somalia and Ethiopia. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1805. The butterfly flies in May to September in two generations. The larvae feed on various ''Fabaceae'' species, such as ''Medicago sativa'' and ''Medicago'', ''Trifolium'', ''Onobrychis'' and ''Melilotus'' species. Subspecies *''C. e. erate'' (Ukraine, Turkey, Lebanon, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kirhizia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan) *''C. e. amdensis'' Verity, 1911 (China: Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan) *''C. e. marnoana'' Rogenhofer, 1884 (Sudan, Ethiopia, south-western Arabia) *''C. e. sinensis'' Verity, 1911 (Mandschuria, North Korea) *''C. e. formosana'' Shirôzu, 1955 (Taiwan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colias Chrysotheme
''Colias chrysotheme'', the lesser clouded yellow, is a small Palearctic butterfly belonging to the family Pieridae. Description The female is white, with a tinge of yellow green. The male is pale yellow on the upper wing, and the edges are black or dark gray with a reddish fringe. ''Colias chrysotheme'' is the smallest of the three orange yellowing species found in Central Europe and has a wing span of 36 to 44 millimeters, with the second generation imagines often being slightly larger than the first generation. The wing upper side of the males is orange-yellow coloured and has a dark outer marginal band, which is narrower on the hindwing. The orange colour is slightly weaker than that of '' Colias croceus'' and much weaker than in '' Colias myrmidone''. The yellow veins in the dark outer marginal band are in ''chrysotheme'' recognizable on the anterior and posterior wings, whereas in ''croceus'' these are usually present only on the forewings tips and yellow veins are complete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colias Palaeno
''Colias palaeno'', known by the common names moorland clouded yellow, palaeno sulphur, and pale Arctic clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. Subspecies Subspecies include: – northern North America *''Colias palaeno chippewa'' W.H. Edwards, 1870 – northern North America, may be a separate species ('' C. chippewa'') * ''Colias palaeno europome'' (Esper, 1778) – Belgium, Germany, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine * ''Colias palaeno europomene'' Ochsenheimer, 1808 – high altitude in the Alps. This form is somewhat larger than the nominate, the male lemon-yellow above, being below deeper yellow, as is also the female. * ''Colias palaeno orientalis'' Staudinger, 1892 – Kamchatka very similar to ''europomene'', being dark greenish on the underside of the hindwing * ''Colias palaeno poktusani'' O. Bang-Haas, 1934 – North Korea * ''Colias palaeno sachalinensis'' Matsumura, 1919 – Sakhalin * ''Colias palaeno synonyma'' Bryk, 1923 – Sweden, Denmark (MHNT) Coli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colias Phicomone
''Colias phicomone'', the mountain clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Carpathian Mountains and the Alps. It flies at altitudes of 900 to 2800 meters. Description The wingspan is 40–50 mm. The males have yellow wing tops with heavy dark scales, resulting in a dark greenish overall colouration. More or less developed, partially absent yellow submarginal spots are located on the dark edge of the wings . There is a black spot in the center of the forewing and a yellowish-reddish center spot on the hindwing. The edge of the front and outer edges of the forewings and the entire edge of the hindwing is rose-red, as are the head and antennae. The underside of the forewings is white, at the apexmore or less yellow. The underside of the hindwings is yellow and has dark scales on the inner part. The central spot, which is often double, is mother-of-pearl with a red border, which sometimes extends outwards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colias Crocea
''Colias croceus'', clouded yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, the yellows and whites. Subspecies and forms * ''Colias croceus croceus'' * ''Colias croceus'' f. ''deserticola'' (Verity, 1909) * ''Colias croceus'' f. ''helice'' ( Hübner) * ''Colias croceus'' f. ''helicina'' (Oberthür, 1880) * ''Colias crocea'' f. ''mediterranea'' (Stauder, 1913) All of these forms are usually considered synonyms of ''Colias croceus''. Distribution and ecology ''Colias croceus'' is one of the most widespread species in Europe. The common clouded yellow's breeding range is North Africa and southern Europe and eastwards through Turkey into the Middle East, but it occurs throughout much of Europe as a summer migrant, in good years individuals reaching Scandinavia. In Asia, its range extends into central Siberia in the north and barely into India in the south; it is not found in Central Asia. This species is primarily an immigrant to the UK, originating from southern Europe and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
