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Batozonellus Lacerticida
''Batozonellus lacerticida'' is a species of the spider-hunting wasp of the family Pompilidae. Description ''Batozonellus lacerticida'' can reach a length of about . These spider hunting wasps have a mainly black body, with yellow markings on the abdomen. Wings are orange, with a brownish band on the tips of the forewings. Biology This species hunts large orb weaver spiders (family Araneidae), mainly ''Argiope bruennichii'', '' Argiope lobata'', ''Araneus angulatus'' and ''Araneus ventricosus''. The wasps paralyze these spiders with their poisonous stings and drag them into their underground nests. Then they lay an egg into the abdomen of their prey. Distribution This species can be found in most of Europe. References External links * Batozonellus lacerticida' - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliography * Batozonellus lacerticida' - NCBI Taxonomy Database * Batozonellus lacerticida' - Global Biodiversity Information Facility * Batozonellus lacerticida' - Encyclopedia of Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araneidae
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name of the group. Araneids have eight similar eyes, hairy or spiny legs, and no stridulating organs. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, including many well-known large or brightly colored garden spiders. With 3,108 species in 186 genera worldwide, the Araneidae comprise the third-largest family of spiders (behind the Salticidae and Linyphiidae). Araneid webs are constructed in a stereotypical fashion, where a framework of nonsticky silk is built up before the spider adds a final spiral of silk covered in sticky droplets. Orb webs are also produced by members of other spider families. The long-jawed orb weavers (Tetragnathidae) were formerly included in the Araneidae; they are closely related, being part of the superfamily Aran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of Life
The ''Encyclopedia of Life'' (''EOL'') is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing trusted databases curated by experts and with the assistance of non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text. In addition, the Encyclopedia incorporates content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which digitizes millions of pages of printed literature from the world's major natural history libraries. The project was initially backed by a US$50 million funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, who provided US$20 million and US$5 million, respectively. The additional US$25 million came from five cornerstone institutions—the Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data. The mission of the GBIF is to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to underpin sustainable development. Priorities, with an emphasis on promoting participation and working through partners, include mobilising biodiversity data, developing protocols and standards to ensure scientific integrity and interoperability, building an informatics architecture to allow the interlinking of diverse data types from disparate sources, promoting capacity building and ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL operates as worldwide consortiumof natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to address this challenge by digitizing the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, publishers, bioinformaticians, and information technology professionals to develotools and servicesto facilitate greater access, interoperability, and reuse of content and data. BHL provides a range of services, data exports, and APIs to allow users to download content, harvest source data files, and reuse materials for research purposes. Through taxonomic intelligence tools developed bGlobal Names Architecture BHL indexes the taxonomic names throughout the collection, allowing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araneus Ventricosus
''Araneus ventricosus'' is a nocturnal orb-weaver spider found primarily in China, Japan, and Korea that has been involved in numerous research studies and is easily identified by its nocturnal web-building behavior. ''Araneus ventricosus venom is effective against invertebrate prey, but its venom is ineffective in Vertebrate, vertebrates. This arachnid's Spider silk, silk has been researched extensively and has several unique properties. For instance, ''Araneus ventricosus'' is able to produce flagelliform silk, and its TuSp1 (tubuliform spidroin) and AcSp1 (aciniform spidroin) genes have been sequenced. The spider also has unique eyes that are affected by their circadian rhythm and imply the existence of an efferent optic nerve within the species' central nervous system. General description ''Araneus ventricosus'' is commonly brown, black, or gray. It is also identifiable by its characteristic web-building behavior, as the arachnid is known to build a web throughout the nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araneus Angulatus
''Araneus angulatus'' is a species of orb-weaving spiders found in the Palearctic realm. It resembles the European garden spider, ''Araneus diadematus'', but has distinctive tubercles on its abdomen. The species was first described in ''Aranei Svecici'' in 1757, where it was the first species described, making ''Araneus angulatus'' the first scientific name of an animal that is still in use. Description ''Araneus angulatus'' closely resembles the more frequently encountered European garden spider, ''Araneus diadematus'', but can be distinguished by the presence of angular tubercles on the abdomen. Distribution ''Araneus angulatus'' is found across a wide geographical range in the Palearctic realm. It is widespread in Europe, although rarer in Northern Europe. ''A. angulatus'' is rare in the United Kingdom, where it is restricted to areas near the South coast of England. Subspecies Six subspecies are currently recognized: * ''Araneus angulatus afolius'' (Franganillo, 1909) — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argiope Lobata
''Argiope lobata'' is a species of spider belonging to the family Araneidae. It has a wide distribution encompassing the whole of Africa and stretching to southern Europe and into Asia. The male of this species is small (body length 6 mm) but the female is large and spectacular at up to 25 mm in length. The silver abdomen is marked with black and red spots and carries deep furrows and distinctive lobes around the edge. As with other spiders in this genus, the large web is usually decorated with prominent zig-zag stabilimenta. File:Argiope lobata, female. Villeveyrac 01.jpg, Ventral side of a female Image:Argiope lobata1.JPG, Argiope lobata References lobata Lobata is an order of Ctenophora in the class Tentaculata with smaller tentacles than other ctenophores, and distinctive flattened lobes extending outwards from their bodies. They grow up to about long. Anatomy The lobates have a pair of lo ... Spiders of Europe Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argiope Bruennichii
''Argiope bruennichi'' (wasp spider) is a species of orb-web spider distributed throughout central Europe, northern Europe, north Africa, parts of Asia, and the Azores archipelago. Like many other members of the genus '' Argiope'' (including St Andrew's Cross spiders), it has striking yellow and black markings on its abdomen. Web The spider builds a spiral orb web at dawn or dusk, commonly in long grass a little above ground level, taking approximately an hour. The prominent zigzag shape called the '' stabilimentum'', or web decoration, featured at the centre of the orb is of uncertain function, but it has been shown that webs containing stabilimenta catch fewer insects because they are less cryptic, but on the other hand these webs are less often damaged by birds flying through them. When a prey item is first caught in the web, ''Argiope bruennichi'' will quickly immobilise its prey by wrapping it in silk. The prey is then bitten and then injected with a paralysing venom and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia between 1767 and 1810. Life and work Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University of Göttingen. In 1760, he moved to the University of Leiden and passed his doctor's degree at the age of 19. Pallas travelled throughout the Netherlands and to London, improving his medical and surgical knowledge. He then settled at The Hague, and his new system of animal classification was praised by Georges Cuvier. Pallas wrote ''Miscellanea Zoologica'' (1766), which included descriptions of several vertebrates new to science which he had discovered in the Dutch museum collections. A planned voyage to southern Africa and the East Indies fell through when his father reca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthropod
Arthropods (, (gen. ποδός)) are invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton, a Segmentation (biology), segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda. They are distinguished by their jointed limbs and Arthropod cuticle, cuticle made of chitin, often Mineralization (biology), mineralised with calcium carbonate. The arthropod body plan consists of segments, each with a pair of appendages. Arthropods are bilaterally symmetrical and their body possesses an exoskeleton, external skeleton. In order to keep growing, they must go through stages of moulting, a process by which they shed their exoskeleton to reveal a new one. Some species have wings. They are an extremely diverse group, with up to 10 million species. The haemocoel, an arthropod's internal cavity, through which its haemolymph – analogue of blood – circulates, accommodates its interior Organ (anatomy), organs; it has an open circulatory system. Like their exteriors, the internal or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batozonellus
''Batozonellus'' is a genus of the spider hunting wasps (insects belonging to the family Pompilidae). Description The species of the genus ''Batozonellus'' range from large to very large. Body is black and yellow. The compound eyes are large. Clypeus (arthropod anatomy), Clypeus is short and broad. The wings are yellow. The tip of the forewing has a brownish band. The pterostigma is quite small. The tibiae have long spines. The females dig their nests in the ground and supply larvae with spiders of the family Araneidae. Species The species in the genus are: *''Batozonellus aliciae'' (Bingham, 1896) *''Batozonellus annulitarsis'' (Cameron, 1891) *''Batozonellus bipunctatus'' Banks, 1941 *''Batozonellus exiguus'' Banks, 1947 *''Batozonellus gundlachi'' (Cresson, 1865) *''Batozonellus ichneumonoides'' Banks, 1944 *''Batozonellus inornatus'' Banks, 1945 *''Batozonellus madecassus'' (Saussure, 1887) *''Batozonellus marcidus'' Banks, 1925 *''Batozonellus multipictus'' (Smith, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
