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Somatidia Aranea
''Somatidia aranea'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by entomologist Arthur Sidney Olliff in 1889. It is known from Australia and New Zealand.BioLib.cz - ''Somatidia aranea''
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Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly har ...
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Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body. In various members of the family, however, the antennae are quite short (e.g., '' Neandra brunnea'') and such species can be difficult to distinguish from related beetle families such as the Chrysomelidae. The scientific name of this beetle family goes back to a figure from Greek mythology: after an argument with nymphs, the shepherd Cerambus was transformed into a large beetle with horns. Description Other than the typical long antennal length, the most consistently distinctive feature of the family is that the antennal sockets are located on low tubercles on the face; other beetles with long antennae lack these tubercles, and cerambycids with short antennae still possess them. They otherwise vary greatly in size, shap ...
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Arthur Sidney Olliff
Arthur Sidney Olliff (21 October 1865 – 29 December 1895), was an Australian taxonomist who was active as Government entomologist in New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es .... He came to Australia in December 1844 to work at the Australian Museum. Discoveries *'' Rhinotia acrobeles'' (1889) Publications *''A chapter on collecting and preserving insects'' - Arthur Sidney Olliff (1889) *''Australian butterflies : a brief account of the native families : with a chapter on collecting & preserving insects'' - Arthur Sidney Olliff (1889) *The Mesozoic and Tertiary Insects of New South Wales' - Robert Etheridge, Junior, Arthur Sidney Olliff (1890) *''Insect pests. The maize moth (Heliothris armigera, Hub.)'' - Arthur Sidney Olliff (1890) *''Insect pests. T ...
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign ''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ... country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approx ...
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the List of island countries, sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's Capital of New Zealand, capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. ...
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Somatidia
''Somatidia'' is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae Lamiinae, commonly called flat-faced longhorns, are a subfamily of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). The subfamily includes over 750 genera, rivaled in diversity within the family only by the subfamily Cerambycinae Cerambycinae is a s ..., containing the following species: Species subgenus ''Araneosoma'' * '' Somatidia aranea'' Olliff, 1889 subgenus ''Dentosoma'' * '' Somatidia fulvipes'' Broun, 1923 * '' Somatidia lineifera'' Broun, 1909 * '' Somatidia spinicollis'' Broun, 1893 subgenus ''Laevisoma'' * '' Somatidia flavidorsis'' Broun, 1917 * '' Somatidia halli'' Broun, 1914 * '' Somatidia laevior'' Broun, 1893 * '' Somatidia laevithorax'' Breuning, 1940 * '' Somatidia maculata'' Broun, 1921 * '' Somatidia metallica'' Breuning, 1982 * '' Somatidia pinguis'' Broun, 1913 * '' Somatidia rufescens'' Breuning, 1940 * '' Somatidia suffusa'' Broun, 1917 subgenus ''Microsoma'' * '' Somatidia fauveli' ...
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