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Cyphogastra Foveicollis
''Cyphogastra foveicollis'' is a beetle of the Buprestidae Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some ... family. Description ''Cyphogastra foveicollis'' reaches about in length. The basic colour of the elytra and thorax may be metallic dark green or dark purplish. Distribution This species occurs in West Papua. References foevicollis Beetles described in 1835 {{Buprestidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook ''Flores française'' in 1828. Early in his career, he was interested in Coleoptera and allied himself with both Jean Théodore Lacordaire and Pierre André Latreille. He was the curator of the Pierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many species of beetles, as well as butterflies and moths, resulting from the voyages of the ''Astrolabe'', the expedition ship of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse and the '' Coquille'', that of Louis Isidore Duperrey. He left Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buprestidae
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described. The larger and more spectacularly colored jewel beetles are highly prized by insect collectors. The elytra of some Buprestidae species have been traditionally used in beetlewing jewellery and decoration in certain countries in Asia, like India, Thailand and Japan. Description and ecology Shape is generally cylindrical or elongate to ovoid, with lengths ranging from , although most species are under . '' Catoxantha'', '' Chrysaspis'', '' Euchroma'' and '' Megaloxantha'' contain the largest species. A variety of bright colors are known, often in complicated patterns. The iridescence common to these beetles is not due to pigments in the exosk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyphogastra
''Cyphogastra'' is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species: * ''Cyphogastra adonis'' Kerremans, 1911 * ''Cyphogastra amatina'' Kerremans, 1919 * ''Cyphogastra angulicollis'' Deyrolle, 1864 * ''Cyphogastra apicalis'' Kerremans, 1895 * ''Cyphogastra armata'' Théry, 1923 * ''Cyphogastra aterrima'' Kerremans, 1911 * ''Cyphogastra atramentaria'' Kerremans, 1919 * ''Cyphogastra augustini'' Théry, 1923 * ''Cyphogastra auripennis'' Saunders, 1867 * '' Cyphogastra bicolor'' Waterhouse, 1914 * ''Cyphogastra biimpressa'' Obenberger, 1922 * ''Cyphogastra bruyni'' Lansberge, 1880 * ''Cyphogastra calepyga'' (Thomson, 1857) * ''Cyphogastra canaliculata'' Théry, 1908 * ''Cyphogastra carbonaria'' Théry, 1908 * ''Cyphogastra caudata'' Lansberge, 1880 * ''Cyphogastra celebensis'' Kerremans, 1910 * ''Cyphogastra chalcea'' Obenberger, 1922 * ''Cyphogastra collarti'' Descarpentires, 1956 * ''Cyphogastra coriacea'' Kerremans, 1910 * ''Cyphogastra cribrata'' Deyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
