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Cosmodela Batesi
''Cosmodela batesi'' is a species of tiger beetle endemic to Taiwan. Its English common name is Bates' tiger beetle. Its Chinese common name, 臺灣八星虎甲蟲, translates to "Taiwan(ese) eight-star tiger beetle." Description ''C. batesi'' has a body length between 15 and 21 mm. Its body is largely metallic blue-green, along with shades of yellow, orange, and red throughout. The top of its head and the sides of its pronotum often display large orange-red markings, and the antennae are blue-green with a metallic luster. It has large, black compound eyes and pronounced white mandibles with dark blue-green tips. The sides of its body and legs are covered with small white hairs. Each side of the elytra has four white spots, with the one closest to the thorax being the smallest. Behavior ''C. batesi'' can often be found running along the open ground where it hunts small insects, though it may fly short distances when necessary to escape danger. The mating season of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Jean-Baptiste Fleutiaux
Edmond Jean Baptiste Fleutiaux (22 October 1858, Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise – 1951) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Fleutiaux worked on the beetle fauna of Southeast Asia, particularly French Indochina and Africa. He wrote ''Catalogue systématique des Cicindelidae décruits depuis Linné'' (1892) and ''Revision des Eucnemides africains'' (1945). His collection is conserved by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Fleutiaux was a member of the Société entomologique de France Groupe Lactalis S.A. (doing business as Lactalis) is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier S.A. Lactalis is the largest dairy p .... 1858 births 1951 deaths People from Argenteuil French entomologists {{entomologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiger Beetle
Tiger beetles are a family of beetles, Cicindelidae, known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed. The fastest known species of tiger beetle, '' Rivacindela hudsoni'', can run at a speed of , or about 125 body lengths per second. As of 2005, about 2,600 species and subspecies were known, with the richest diversity in the Oriental (Indo-Malayan) region, followed by the Neotropics. While historically treated as a subfamily of ground beetles (Carabidae) under the name Cicindelinae, several studies since 2020 indicated that they should be treated as a family, the Cicindelidae, which are a sister group to Carabidae within the Adephaga. Description Tiger beetles often have large bulging eyes, long, slender legs and large curved mandibles. All are predatory, both as adults and as larvae. The genus '' Cicindela'' has a cosmopolitan distribution. Other well-known genera include '' Tetracha'', '' Omus'', '' Amblycheila'' and '' Manticora''. While members of the genus ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
