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Chalarinae
Chalarinae is a subfamily of big-headed flies (insects in the family Pipunculidae). Genera * Genus '' Chalarus'' Walker, 1834 * Genus '' Jassidophaga'' Aczél, 1939 * Genus '' Protoverrallia'' Aczél, 1948 Baltic amber Eocene (Priabonian The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene Epoch or Series. It spans the time between . The Priabonian is preceded by the Bartonian and is followed by the Rupelian, the lowest stage ...) * Genus '' Verrallia'' Mik, 1899 References Pipunculidae Brachycera subfamilies {{Pipunculidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipunculidae
Pipunculidae is a family of flies (Diptera) commonly termed big-headed flies, a reference to the large (holoptic) eyes, which cover nearly the entire head. The family is found worldwide and more than 1300 species have been described. The larvae of Pipunculidae develop as parasitoids almost exclusively in Auchenorrhyncha, the exception being the genus '' Nephrocerus'', whose hosts are adult Tipulidae (crane flies). The larvae develop rapidly within the crane flies before pupating in the soil. In all pipunculids there are only two larval stages. Some species are used as biological control agents in rice fields. Taxonomy Taxonomy as shown at the Tree of life, with modification based on Kehlmaier, Dierick and Skevington (2014). The name Pipunculidae is derived from the type genus '' Pipunculus'' which is thought to be derived from Latin ''pepo'' for pumpkin, thus pipunculus would mean "little pumpkin", referring to the large heads. Subfamily Chalarinae * Genus '' Chalarus'' Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verrallia Aucta
''Verrallia aucta'' is a species of fly in the family Pipunculidae. It is found in the Palearctic.Coe, R.L. (1966) Pipunculidae.''Handbook for the Identification of British Insects'', Vol. X (Part 2c): 1-83; Royal Entomological Society Londonpdf/ref> Hosts Parasitoid on ''Philaenus spumarius''. Because ''P. s.'' is the most common vector (in Europe) of the invasive agricultural disease ''Xylella fastidiosa'', ''V. aucta'' is of great interest as a biological control. Insecticide application can produce paradoxical target rebound by hitting ''V. aucta'' as well as the intended ''P. spumarius''. This is also a problem for tillage, but only specifically in April, due to the particularities of the ''V. aucta'' lifecycle. Although not terribly common anywhere, across all of Northern Italy it was most common in the Piedmont. References External linksImages representing ''Verrallia aucta''at BOLD In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalarus
''Chalarus'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Pipunculidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species *'' Chalarus absonus'' Rafael, 1990 *'' Chalarus amazonensis'' Rafael, 1988 *'' Chalarus angustifrons'' Morakote, 1990 *'' Chalarus argenteus'' Coe, 1966 *'' Chalarus basalis'' Loew, 1873 *'' Chalarus beijingensis'' Yang & Xu, 1998 *'' Chalarus brevicaudis'' Jervis, 1992 *'' Chalarus chilensis'' Collin, 1931 *'' Chalarus clarus'' Jervis, 1992 *'' Chalarus connexus'' Rafael, 1988 *'' Chalarus decorus'' Jervis, 1992 *'' Chalarus delicatus'' Rafael, 1990 *'' Chalarus elegantulus'' Jervis, 1992 *'' Chalarus exiguus'' ( Haliday, 1833) *'' Chalarus fimbriatus'' Coe, 1966 *'' Chalarus flosculus'' Morakote, 1990 *'' Chalarus griseus'' Coe, 1966 *'' Chalarus gynocephalus'' Jervis, 1992 *'' Chalarus holosericeus'' ( Meigen, 1824) *'' Chalarus immanus'' Kehlmaier, 2008 *'' Chalarus indistinctus'' Jervis, 1992 *'' Chalarus irwini'' Skevington & Kehlmaier, 2008 *'' Chalar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Walker (entomologist)
Francis Walker (31 July 1809 – 5 October 1874) was an English entomologist. He was born in Southgate, London, on 31 July 1809 and died at Wanstead, England on 5 October 1874. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms. However, his assiduous work on the collections of the British Museum had great significance. Between June 1848 and late 1873 Walker was contracted by John Edward Gray Director of the British Museum to catalogue their insects (except Coleoptera) that is Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Walker largely accomplished this and (Edwards, 1870) wrote of the plan and by implication those who implemented it “It is to him raythat the Public owe the admirable helps to the study of natural history which have been afforded by the series of inventories, guides, and nomenclatures, the publication of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jassidophaga
''Jassidophaga'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Pipunculidae. Species *'' Jassidophaga abscissa'' ( Thomson, 1869) *'' Jassidophaga argentisegmentata'' ( Brunetti, 1912) *'' Jassidophaga armata'' ( Thomson, 1869) *'' Jassidophaga beatricis'' (Coe, 1966) *'' Jassidophaga chiiensis'' (Ôuchi, 1943) *'' Jassidophaga contracta'' Yang & Xu, 1998 *'' Jassidophaga eximia'' (Kuznetzov, 1993) *'' Jassidophaga fasciata'' ( Roser, 1840) *'' Jassidophaga flavidipes'' De Meyer & Grootaert, 1992 *''Jassidophaga guangxiensis'' Yang & Xu, 1998 *'' Jassidophaga hodosa'' (Kuznetzov, 1993) *'' Jassidophaga japonica'' (Morakote, 1990) *'' Jassidophaga kurilensis'' (Kuznetzov, 1993) *''Jassidophaga makarkini'' (Kuznetzov, 1993) *''Jassidophaga nearctica'' Kehlmaier, 2006 *''Jassidophaga pala'' (Morakote, 1990) *''Jassidophaga pilosa'' ( Zetterstedt, 1838) *''Jassidophaga plumbella'' ( Brunetti, 1912) *''Jassidophaga pollinosa'' (Kuznetzov, 1993) *''Jassidophaga sidorenkoi'' (Kuznetzov, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic Amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than 100,000 tons of amber. Today, more than 90% of the world's amber comes from Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It is a major source of income for the region; the local Kaliningrad Amber Combine extracted 250 tonnes of it in 2014, 400 tonnes in 2015. "Baltic amber" was formerly thought to include amber from the Bitterfeld brown coal mines in Saxony ( Eastern Germany). Bitterfeld amber was previously believed to be only 20–22 million years old (Miocene), but a comparison of the animal inclusions in 2003 suggested that it was possibly Baltic amber that was redeposited in a Miocene deposit. Further study of insect taxa in the ambers has shown Bitterfeld amber to be from the same forest as the Baltic amber forest, but separately deposited from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " dawn") and (''kainós'', "new") and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the Eocene is marked by a brief period in which the concentration of the carbon isotope 13C in the atmosphere was exceptionally low in comparison with the more common isotope 12C. The end is set at a major extinction event called the ''Grande Coupure'' (the "Great Break" in continuity) or the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, which may be related to the impact of one or more large bolides in Siberia and in what is now Chesapeake Bay. As with other geologic periods, the strata that define the start and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priabonian
The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene Epoch or Series. It spans the time between . The Priabonian is preceded by the Bartonian and is followed by the Rupelian, the lowest stage of the Oligocene. Stratigraphic definition The Priabonian Stage was introduced in scientific literature by Ernest Munier-Chalmas and Albert de Lapparent in 1893. The stage is named after the small hamlet of Priabona in the community of Monte di Malo, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. The base of the Priabonian Stage is at the first appearance of calcareous nannoplankton species ''Chiasmolithus oamaruensis'' (which forms the base of nanoplankton biozone NP18). An official GSSP was ratified in 2020, and was placed in the Alano di Piave section in Alano di Piave, Belluno, Italy. The top of the Priabonian Stage (the base of the Rupelian Stage and Oligocene Series) is at the extinction of foram genus ''Hantkenina''. Sometimes l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verrallia
''Verrallia'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Pipunculidae. Species *''Verrallia andreei'' Aczél, 1948 *''Verrallia aucta'' ( Fallén, 1817) *''Verrallia csikii'' Aczél, 1940 *''Verrallia exstincta'' Meunier, 1903 *''Verrallia rebunensis'' Morakote, 1990 *''Verrallia spectabilis'' Collin, 1941 *''Verrallia succinia'' Meunier, 1903 *''Verrallia virginica ''Verrallia'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Pipunculidae. Species *'' Verrallia andreei'' Aczél, 1948 *''Verrallia aucta'' ( Fallén, 1817) *'' Verrallia csikii'' Aczél, 1940 *''Verrallia exstincta'' Meunier, 1903 *''Verrallia ...'' Banks, 1915 References Pipunculidae Brachycera genera Diptera of Europe Diptera of Asia Diptera of North America Taxa named by Josef Mik {{Pipunculidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Mik
Josef Mik, also Joseph Mik (23 March 1839 in Zábřeh – 13 October 1900 in Vienna) was a Bohemian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He described many new species and made contributions to knowledge of the Diptera of Central Europe. Mik was the first dipterist to clarify the chaetotaxy of the legs. " On the legs I distinguish a front haeta and a hind-side ; an upper- and an under-side. When we imagine the leg stretched out horizontally and perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the body, the front-side is that which is turned towards the head, and the hind-sidethat turned towards the end of the body ; the upper- and under-side, in such a case, are self-understood."Mik, J. 1878 Dipterologische Untersuchungen Jahresber K.K. Akad. Gymnasium Vienna Mik was born in Zábřeh, Moravia. From 1871 to 1889 he was teacher at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna. In 1889 he was given the Knight's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph; he died in Vienna. Works * 1866 Beitrag zur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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