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Eumorpha Vitis
''Eumorpha vitis'', known as the vine sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Distribution It lives from Argentina north through Central America, the West Indies, and Mexico to southern Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, and Florida. Strays north to Nebraska. Description The wingspan is 85–105 mm. Eumorpha vitis vitis MHNT CUT 2010 0 336 Tingo Maria Peru male dorsal.jpg, Male dorsal Eumorpha vitis vitis MHNT CUT 2010 0 336 Tingo Maria Peru male ventral.jpg, Male ventral Eumorpha vitis vitis MHNT CUT 2010 0 336 St-Jean du Maroni Guyane Française female dorsal.jpg, Female dorsal Eumorpha vitis vitis MHNT CUT 2010 0 336 St-Jean du Maroni Guyane Française female ventral.jpg, Female ventral Biology Adults are on wing from April to May and again from July to October in Florida, from July to September in one generation in the northern part of the range and year-round in the tropics. They feed on the nectar of various flowers, including ''Vinca rosea''. The larvae feed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
