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Orictites Costulipennis
''Orictites costulipennis'' is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae, found in Indomalaya The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the In .... References Scaritinae Beetles described in 1892 {{scaritinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Walter Bates
Henry Walter Bates (8 February 1825, in Leicester – 16 February 1892, in London) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection on the return voyage when his ship caught fire. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,712 species (mostly of insects) of which 8,000 were (according to Bates, but see Van Wyhe) new to science. Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, '' The Naturalist on the River Amazons''. Life Bates was born in Leicester to a literate middle-class family. However, like Wallace, T.H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer, he had a normal education to the age of about 13 when he became apprenticed to a hosiery manufacturer. He joined the Mechanics' Institute (which had a library), studied in his sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carabidae
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal families. They belong to the Adephaga. Members of the family are primarily carnivorous, but some members are phytophagous or omnivorous. Description and ecology Although their body shapes and coloring vary somewhat, most are shiny black or metallic and have ridged wing covers ( elytra). The elytra are fused in some species, particularly the large Carabinae, rendering the beetles unable to fly. The species '' Mormolyce phyllodes'' is known as violin beetle due to their peculiarly shaped elytra. All carabids except the quite primitive flanged bombardier beetles (Paussinae) have a groove on their fore leg tibiae bearing a comb of hairs used for cleaning their antennae. Defensive secretions Typical for the ancient beetle suborder Adephag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indomalaya
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia. Indomalaya also includes the Philippines, lowland Taiwan, and Japan's Ryukyu Islands. Most of Indomalaya was originally covered by forest, and includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, with tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests predominant in much of India and parts of Southeast Asia. The tropical forests of Indomalaya are highly variable and diverse, with economically important trees, especially in the families Dipterocarpaceae and Fabaceae. Maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scaritinae
Scaritinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following genera: * ''Acanthoscelis'' Dejean, 1825 * '' Afroclivina'' Kult, 1959 * '' Afrosyleter'' Basilewsky, 1959 * '' Akephorus'' LeConte, 1851 * '' Alpiodytes'' Jeannel, 1957 * '' Ancus'' Putzeys, 1866 * '' Androzelma'' Dostal, 1993 * '' Anomophaenus'' Fauvel, 1882 * '' Antilliscaris'' Banninger, 1949 * '' Ardistomis'' Putzeys, 1846 * '' Aspidoglossa'' Putzeys, 1846 * '' Baenningeria'' Reichardt, 1976 * '' Basilewskyana'' Kult, 1959 * '' Bohemaniella'' Bousquet, 2002 * ''Brachypelus'' Putzeys, 1866 * '' Caledyschirius'' Bulirsch, 2010 * '' Cameroniola'' Baehr, 1999 * '' Camptidius'' Putzeys, 1866 * '' Camptodontus'' Dejean, 1826 * '' Carenum'' Bonelli, 1813 * ''Catalanodytes'' Sciaky, 1989 * ''Climax'' Putzeys, 1863 * ''Clivina'' Latreille, 1802 * ''Clivinarchus'' Sloane, 1896 * ''Clivinopsis'' Bedel, 1895 * ''Conopterum'' Chaudoir, 1868 * ''Coptolobus'' Chaudoir, 1857 * ''Corintascaris'' Basilewsky, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
