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Ligustrum Robustum
''Ligustrum robustum'' grows as a shrub or small tree up to tall though old specimens of more than a hundred years have been observed with a height of . The fruit of the shrub is an ellipsoid berry, bluish-purple when fully ripe, × . The shrub is native to South and Southeast Asia (Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar ( Burma), Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam) but has become naturalized in other countries. It was introduced to Mauritius at the end of the 19th century and to La Réunion, where it has become a major invasive species. The Flora of China lists a "''Ligustrum'' ''robustum'' subsp. ''chinense'' P. S. Green" as native to China, but more recent publications have regarded that name as a synonym of '' L. expansum.'' ''Ligustrum robustum'' was nominated among 100 of the "World's Worst" invasive species. A moth (''Epiplema albida''), and two coleoptera (''Dermorhytis ornatissima'' and ''Dermorhytis lewisi'') are being tested for biological control pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Roxburgh
William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known as the founding father of Indian botany. He published numerous works on Indian botany, illustrated by careful drawings made by Indian artists and accompanied by taxonomic descriptions of many plant species. Apart from the numerous species that he named, many species were named in his honour by his collaborators. Early life He was born on 3 June 1751 on the Underwood estate near Craigie in Ayrshire and christened on 29 June 1751 at the nearby church at Symington. His father may have worked in the Underwood estate or he may have been the illegitimate son of a well-connected family. His early education was at Underwood parish school perhaps also with some time at Symington parish school, and he probably also had private tutoring in Latin, as demonstrated by his letters and some d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epiplema Albida
''Epiplema albida'' is a species of moth of the family Uraniidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1895. It is found in India, and Sri Lanka. Description It has a wingspan of 24 mm. Forewings with outer margin evenly curved. Hindwings with slight tails at veins 4 and 7. Male has pale violaceous-greyish body with dark brown frons. Forewings slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with dark brown. There are indistinct red-brown antemedial and postmedial excurved lines, where the latter more or less indented and approaching the former below the cell. A submarginal series of red-brown specks below the apex. Hindwings more thickly irrorated with brown. Antemedial and postmedial lines more prominent and angled outwards at vein 4, where there are rufous patches inside them. A submarginal lunulate line is present. Female more prominently brown irrorated. Forewings with a complete marginal lunulate series present. Hindwings without the patches on the lines which is found in male. Sri Lank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of The Indian Subcontinent
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring ( indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for fungi, it is '' funga''. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligustrum
A privet is a flowering plant in the genus ''Ligustrum''. The genus contains about 50 species of erect, deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes forming small or medium-sized trees, native to Europe, north Africa, Asia, many introduced and naturalised in Australasia, where only one species, ''Ligustrum australianum'', extends as a native into Queensland. Some species have become widely naturalized or invasive where introduced. ''Privet'' was originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub ''Ligustrum vulgare'', and later also for the more reliably evergreen '' Ligustrum ovalifolium'' and its hybrid '' Ligustrum × ibolium'' used extensively for privacy hedging, though now the name is applied to all members of the genus. The generic name was applied by Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) to ''L. vulgare''. It is often suggested that the name ''privet'' is related to ''private'', but the OED states that there is no evidence to support this. Description Privet is a group of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pliny The Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' Naturalis Historia'' (''Natural History''), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: Among Pliny's greatest works was the twenty-volume work ''Bella Germaniae'' ("The History of the German Wars"), which is no longer extant. ''Bella Germaniae'', which began where Aufidius Bassus' ''Libri Belli Germanici'' ("The War with the Germans") left off, was used as a source by other prominent Roman historians, including Plutarch, Tacitus and Suetonius. Tacitus—who many scholars agree had never travelled in Germania—used ''Bella Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolbina Inexacta
''Dolbina inexacta'', the common grizzled hawkmoth, is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. Distribution It is found from Pakistan, northern and central India and Nepal across Myanmar, southern China, northern Thailand and northern Vietnam to Taiwan. Description The wingspan is 55–86 mm. The thorax, legs and wings undersides are brown. There are large black mesial patches on the abdomen underside. The discal interspace on the forewing upperside is sometimes pinkish grey between the discal cell and the hind margin. Dolbina inexacta MHNT CUT 2010 0 267 Chiang Mai Thailand male dorsal.jpg, Male dorsal Dolbina inexacta MHNT CUT 2010 0 267 Chiang Mai Thailand male ventral.jpg, Male ventral Dolbina inexacta MHNT CUT 2010 0 267 Chiang Mai Thailand female dorsal.jpg, Female dorsal Dolbina inexacta MHNT CUT 2010 0 267 Chiang Mai Thailand female ventral.jpg, Female ventral Biology The larvae have been recorded feeding on ''Ligustrum robustum'' in China and ''Olea'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pangrapta Grisangula
''Pangrapta'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818. Species *'' Pangrapta acolesis'' Viette, 1958 Madagascar *'' Pangrapta adoxopis'' (Turner, 1908) northern Queensland *''Pangrapta adusta'' (Leech, 1900) *'' Pangrapta albipuncta'' Gaede, 1940 Cameroon *'' Pangrapta albirenalis'' Gaede, 1940 Malawi *'' Pangrapta albiseriata'' Hampson, 1926 Borneo *''Pangrapta albistigma'' (Hampson, 1898) India (Meghalaya) *'' Pangrapta argyrographa'' (Mabille, 1893) Madagascar *'' Pangrapta aroa'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea *'' Pangrapta athemonalis'' (Walker, 859 Borneo *''Pangrapta aviusalis'' (Walker, 859 Borneo *'' Pangrapta camerunia'' Hampson, 1926 Cameroon *''Pangrapta cana'' (Leech, 1900) *'' Pangrapta chilana'' (Swinhoe, 1902) Borneo *''Pangrapta cinerea'' (Butler, 1889) India (Himachal Pradesh) *''Pangrapta costaemacula'' Staudinger, 1888 south-eastern Siberia *''Pangrapta costinotata'' (Butler, 1881) Japan *''Pangrapta cryptol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brahmaea Wallichii
''Brahmaea wallichii'', also known as the owl moth, is a moth from the family Brahmaeidae, the Brahmin moths, and one of its largest species. It is found in the north of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, and Japan. The owl moth is nocturnal. The wingspan is about . Appearance The moth has well-developed eye spots on the front wings and a characteristic pattern of black-brown stripes. The light-brown margins of the back wings display small triangular white spots. The robust body is also black and brown, with characteristic orange-brown stripes. Etymology The species is named after the botanist Nathaniel Wallich. Behavior The larvae feed on ''Fraxinus excelsior'', ''Ligustrum'' and common lilac. In captivity they also feed on elderberry. They are able to neutralize plant toxins produced by ''Ligustrum''. The moths are active at night; during the daytime, they rest with outspread wings on tree trunks or on the ground. When disturbed, the moth does not fly away, but f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic rank, superfamilies, 10 percent of the total described species of living organisms. It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world. The Lepidoptera show many variations of the basic body structure that have evolved to gain advantages in lifestyle and distribution. Recent estimates suggest the order may have more species than earlier thought, and is among the four most wikt:speciose, speciose orders, along with the Hymenoptera, fly, Diptera, and beetle, Coleoptera. Lepidopteran species are characterized by more than three derived features. The most apparent is the presence of scale (anatomy), scales that cover the torso, bodies, wings, and a proboscis. The scales are modified, flattened "hairs", and give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biological Control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, such as insects, mites, weeds, and plant diseases, using other organisms. It relies on predation, parasitism, herbivory, or other natural mechanisms, but typically also involves an active human management role. It can be an important component of integrated pest management (IPM) programs. There are three basic strategies for biological pest control: classical (importation), where a natural enemy of a pest is introduced in the hope of achieving control; inductive (augmentation), in which a large population of natural enemies are administered for quick pest control; and inoculative (conservation), in which measures are taken to maintain natural enemies through regular reestablishment. Natural enemies of insect pests, also known as biological control agents, include predators, parasitoids, pathogens, and competitors. Biological control agents of plant diseases are most often referred to as antagonists. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dermorhytis Lewisi
''Dermorhytis'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is found in south Asia, southeast Asia and southwest China. Species The following species are placed in the genus: * '' Dermorhytis andrewesi'' Jacoby, 1895 * '' Dermorhytis atkinsoni'' Jacoby, 1908 * '' Dermorhytis biangulata'' Jacoby, 1908 * '' Dermorhytis ceylonensis'' Jacoby, 1887 * '' Dermorhytis costata'' Jacoby, 1908 * ''Dermorhytis cuprea'' Jacoby, 1887 * '' Dermorhytis foveata'' Tan, 1982 * '' Dermorhytis fulvipes'' Jacoby, 1903 * '' Dermorhytis igneofasciata'' Baly, 1861 * '' Dermorhytis imitans'' Jacoby, 1908 * ''Dermorhytis kandyensis'' Jacoby, 1908 * '' Dermorhytis lewisi'' Jacoby, 1887 * ''Dermorhytis martini'' Allard, 1895 * '' Dermorhytis ornatissima'' Baly, 1864 * ''Dermorhytis punctatissima'' ( Jacoby, 1887) * ''Dermorhytis rugosa'' Jacoby, 1908 * ''Dermorhytis speciosa'' Jacoby, 1895 * ''Dermorhytis variabilis'' Jacoby, 1887 * ''Dermorhytis violacea'' Jacoby, 1908 * ''De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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