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Ancema
''Ancema'' is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm and the Palearctic realm (the north-western Himalayas to western China). Species *'' Ancema blanka'' (de Nicéville, 1894) *''Ancema ctesia ''Ancema ctesia'', the bi-spot royal, is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Pakistan and India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the ...'' (Hewitson, 1865) References Remelanini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by John Nevill Eliot {{Theclinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancema Blanka
''Ancema blanka'', the silver royal, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi .... The species was first described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1894. Description Lionel de Nicéville described this species in 1894 as: Subspecies *''A. b. blanka'' North India, Sikkim - Assam, Myanmar, Sumatra *''A. b. minturna'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Thailand, Laos, Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan *''A. b. nacandra'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Java *''A. b. sudica'' (Evans, 1926) South India *''A. b. reina'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1998 Habits They fly very fast. During summers, the male occasionally comes to water but usually keeps to the treetops and rocks, especially on the summit of hills, where they basks in the sun with the wings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancema Ctesia
''Ancema ctesia'', the bi-spot royal, is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Pakistan and India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so .... The larvae feed on '' Viscum articulatum''. Subspecies The following subspecies are recognised: *''Ancema ctesia ctesia'' (Sikkim, Assam, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, possibly Bhutan and Burma) *''Ancema ctesia agalla'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (Thailand, Laos, southern Yunnan, Sichuan) *''Ancema ctesia cakravasti'' (Fruhstorfer, 1909) (Taiwan) File:AncemaCtesiaMUpUnACRK1.jpg , male Thailand File: CtesiaMUpUn 484 AC1.jpg, male India Courvoisier collection File: Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera 20.jpg, ''Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera'' Plate 20 References * * Remelanini Butterflies of Asia Butterfl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remelanini
The Remelanini are a small tribe of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl .... Genera As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, the following list of genera is preliminary: * '' Ancema'' * '' Pseudotajuria'' * '' Remelana'' Taxa named by John Nevill Eliot Butterfly tribes {{Theclinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nevill Eliot
Lt. Col. John Nevill Eliot (29 August 1912 – 11 April 2003)''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' was an English entomologist who specialised in Oriental Lepidoptera especially Lycaenidae. He was born in Woolwich, London''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915'' and died in Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by t ..., Somerset. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Eliot, John Nevill English entomologists 2003 deaths 1912 births People from Woolwich 20th-century British zoologists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo 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, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues ( Polyommatinae), the coppers ( Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks ( Theclinae), and the harvesters ( Miletinae). Description, food, and life cycle Adults are small, under 5 cm usually, and brightly coloured, sometimes with a metallic gloss. Larvae are often flattened rather than cylindrical, with glands that may produce secretions that attract and subdue ants. Their cuticles tend to be thickened. Some larvae are capable of producing vibrations and low sounds that are transmitted through the substrates they inhabit. They use these sounds to communicate with ants.Pierce, N. E.; Braby, M. F.; Heath, A.; Lohman, D. J.; Mathew, J.; Rand, D. B. & Travassos, M. A. (2002)"The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indomalayan Realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia. Indomalaya also includes the Philippines, lowland Taiwan, and Japan's Ryukyu Islands. Most of Indomalaya was originally covered by forest, and includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, with tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests predominant in much of India and parts of Southeast Asia. The tropical forests of Indomalaya are highly variable and diverse, with economically important trees, especially in the families Dipterocarpaceae and Fabaceae. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palearctic Realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Siberian region; the Mediterranean Basin; the Sahara and Arabian Deserts; and Western, Central and East Asia. The Palaearctic realm also has numerous rivers and lakes, forming several freshwater ecoregions. The term 'Palearctic' was first used in the 19th century, and is still in use as the basis for zoogeographic classification. History In an 1858 paper for the ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society'', British zoologist Philip Sclater first identified six terrestrial zoogeographic realms of the world: Palaearctic, Aethiopian/ Afrotropic, Indian/ Indomalayan, Australasian, Nearctic, and Neotropical. The six indicated general groupings of fauna, based on shared biogeography and large-scale geographic barriers to migration. Alfred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaenidae Genera
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues (Polyommatinae), the coppers ( Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks ( Theclinae), and the harvesters (Miletinae). Description, food, and life cycle Adults are small, under 5 cm usually, and brightly coloured, sometimes with a metallic gloss. Larvae are often flattened rather than cylindrical, with glands that may produce secretions that attract and subdue ants. Their cuticles tend to be thickened. Some larvae are capable of producing vibrations and low sounds that are transmitted through the substrates they inhabit. They use these sounds to communicate with ants.Pierce, N. E.; Braby, M. F.; Heath, A.; Lohman, D. J.; Mathew, J.; Rand, D. B. & Travassos, M. A. (2002)"The ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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