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Efate (spider)
''Efate'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Description These ant-like spiders are three to five millimeters long. The carapace is flattened. ''E. raptor'' males have enlarged first legs, giving them a raptorial appearance. The genus ''Rarahu'' from the same subfamily is rather similar, as is ''Sobasina''.Berry, J.W., Beatty, J.A. & Prószynski (1996). Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. I. Distribution of twelve Genera, with descriptions of eighteen new speciesPDF(description of all three species) Name Efate is an island in the Republic of Vanuatu, where the first specimen was found. The salticid genus ''Araneotanna'' is also named after an island of Vanuatu. Species * ''Efate albobicinctus'' Berland, 1938 (Guam, Caroline Is., New Hebrides, Samoa, Fiji) * ''Efate fimbriatus'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyn'ski, 1996 (Caroline Is., Marshall Is.) * ''Efate raptor'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyn'ski, 1996 (Fiji) References External links Diagnostic drawingsan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Berland
Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () was a French entomologist and arachnologist. Partial list of publications * 1925 : ''Faune de France. 10, Hyménoptères vespiformes, I, Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae''(Paul Lechevalier, Paris) * 1927 : « Les Araignées ubiquistes, ou à large répartition, et leurs moyens de dissémination », ''Compte rendu sommaire des séances de la Société de biogéographie'', 23 : 65–67. * 1929 : ''Faune de France. 19, Hyménoptères vespiformes, II, Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae'' (Paul Lechevalier, Paris) * 1929 : « Araignées recueillies par Madame Pruvot aux îles Loyalty », ''Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France'', LIV : 387–399. * 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sobasina
''Sobasina'' is a genus of Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon, Eugène Louis Simon in 1898. These spiders look somewhat like ants, except for ''S. paradoxa'', which looks more like a beetle. Species it contains sixteen species, found only in Oceania, Malaysia, and Indonesia: *''Sobasina alboclypea'' Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. *''Sobasina amoenula'' Simon, 1898 (Type_species, type) – Solomon Is. *''Sobasina aspinosa'' Berry, Beatty & Jerzy Prószyński, Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji *''Sobasina coriacea'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Palau (Caroline Is.) *''Sobasina cutleri'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji *''Sobasina hutuna'' Wanless, 1978 – Solomon Is. (Rennell Is.) *''Sobasina magna'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Tonga *''Sobasina paradoxa'' Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998 – Fiji *''Sobasina platnicki'' Prószyński & Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold, Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Indonesia (Borneo) *''Sobas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efate Raptor
Efate (), also known as Île Vate (), is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in Vanuatu. Geography It is the most populous (approx. 66,000) island in Vanuatu. Efate's land area of makes it Vanuatu's third largest island. Its geological past was heavily volcanic, meaning that a lava shelf surrounds much of the island. Most inhabitants of Efate live in Port Vila, the national capital. Its highest mountain is Mount McDonald with a height of . History Captain James Cook named it Sandwich Island "in honour of my noble patron, the Earl of Sandwich" on his 1774 voyage on . Coconut trees were planted on Efate in the mid-1800s. During World War II, Efate served an important role as a United States military base. On March 13, 2015, Port Vila, the island's largest human settlement and the capital of Vanuatu, bore extensive damage from Cyclone Pam. In December 2024, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake reportedly damaged almost every single house on Efate, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araneotanna
''Araneotanna'' is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae with only one species, ''A. ornatipes'', that occurs only on the New Hebrides. Name The genus was named ''Tanna'' until 2006, when it had to be replaced due to a conflict with a genus of the same name in the Hemipteran family Cicadidae, ''Tanna (cicada), Tanna'' William Lucas Distant, Distant, 1905. Tanna (island), Tanna is an island of Vanuatu. The salticid genus ''Efate (spider), Efate'' is also named after an island of Vanuatu. References * Salticidae Endemic fauna of Vanuatu Monotypic Salticidae genera Spiders of Oceania {{Salticidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was founded in 1980. Since independence, the country has become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efate
Efate (), also known as Île Vate (), is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in Vanuatu. Geography It is the most populous (approx. 66,000) island in Vanuatu. Efate's land area of makes it Vanuatu's third largest island. Its geological past was heavily volcanic, meaning that a lava shelf surrounds much of the island. Most inhabitants of Efate live in Port Vila, the national capital. Its highest mountain is Mount McDonald with a height of . History Captain James Cook named it Sandwich Island "in honour of my noble patron, the Earl of Sandwich" on his 1774 voyage on . Coconut trees were planted on Efate in the mid-1800s. During World War II, Efate served an important role as a United States military base. On March 13, 2015, Port Vila, Vanuatu, Port Vila, the island's largest human settlement and the capital of Vanuatu, bore extensive damage from Cyclone Pam. In December 2024, 2024 Port Vila earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake reportedly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rarahu
''Rarahu'' is a genus of jumping spiders endemic to Samoa. , it contains only one species, ''Rarahu nitida''. Berland probably adapted the genus name ''Rarahu'' from Pierre Loti's book of the same name, which was published in 1880. Loti himself either used the rare Tahitian word "rarahu", meaning (amongst other things) "to eat '' tapu'' things", or changed the name of the volcano " Raraku".Mabbott 1946 The species name is from Latin ''nitida'' "shining", "handsome", or "neat" (a false cognate False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds or spelling and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the same language or from different languages, even within the same family. For exampl ...). Footnotes References * (1946): The Origin of Pierre Loti's Name "Rarahu". ''Modern Language Notes'' 61(4): 288. * (2007)The world spider catalog version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''. External links Salticidae Endem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology (biology), morphology, behaviour, or ecological niche. In addition, palaeontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. About 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a binomial nomenclature, two-part name, a "binomen". The first part of a binomen is the name of a genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name (zoology), specific name or the specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raptorial
In biology (specifically the anatomy of arthropods), the term ''raptorial'' implies much the same as ''predatory'' but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod leg, arthropod's foreleg that make it function for the grasping of prey while it is consumed, where the gripping surfaces are formed from the opposing faces of two successive leg Segmentation (biology), segments (''see illustration''). This is distinctly different from the grasping mechanism of a structure such as a scorpion's claw (a "Chela (organ), chela") in which one of the opposing surfaces is an articulated digit, and not a leg segment. While this is most widely known in Mantodea, mantises, similarly modified legs can be found in some crustaceans (e.g., mantis shrimp), and various insect families, such as Mantispidae, Belostomatidae, Nepidae, and Naucoridae (all members of these groups have raptorial forelegs). There are numerous other lineages within various insect families that have raptorial forelegs, mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carapace
A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tortoises, the underside is called the plastron. In botany, a carapace refers to the hard outer cover of a seed which protects the inner embryo. Crustaceans In crustaceans, the carapace functions as a protective cover over the cephalothorax (i.e., the fused head and thorax, as distinct from the abdomen behind). Where it projects forward beyond the eyes, this projection is called a rostrum. The carapace is calcified to varying degrees in different crustaceans. Zooplankton within the phylum Crustacea also have a carapace. These include Cladocera, ostracods, and isopods, but isopods only have a developed "cephalic shield" carapace covering the head. Arachnids In arachnids, the carapace is formed by the fusion of prosomal tergites into a single pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
