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Pamphagus Sardeus
''Pamphagus sardeus'' is a large species of Pamphagidae and one of the most massive Italian Orthoptera. Distribution and habitat This species can be encountered exclusively in Sardinia, and is more frequently found in spring and summer in the southern part of the island, where it lives in dry natural grassland. Description The adult males grow up to long, while females reach . The overall shape is typical of Pamphagidae and very similar to ''Pamphagus marmoratus'', to the point that for a long time this species was reported as ''P. marmoratus'' before the works by Harz (1969 and 1975) definitively separated it on the basis of the longer cerci, a different profile of the ultimate tergite and the shape of male genitalia. Biology ''Pamphagus sardeus'', like the other Pamphagidae, is herbivore A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet. As a result of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer (17 December 1799 – 14 April 1874) was a German entomologist and physician. He was born, and died, in Regensburg. Herrich-Schäffer studied and collected particularly butterflies and moths ( Lepidoptera). He was chairman of the Regensburg Botanical Society () from 1861 to 1871, and was awarded an honorary citizenship of Regensburg in 1871. He wrote ''Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa'' between 1843 and 1856, one of the most influential works on the higher classification of Lepidoptera of the 19th century. Many of the lepidopteran higher taxa recognized today were defined in this work for the first time. He based his classification mostly on wing venation. Parts of his collection went to Otto Staudinger at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and M. J. Bastelberg at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Many Microlepidoptera in his collection were given to Ottmar Hofmann (1835–1900) at the Natural History M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann August Krauss
Hermann August Krauss (1 August 1848 – 21 April 1939) was an Austria, Austrian entomologist who specialised in Orthoptera and Dermaptera. Krauss was a physician. His collection is in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. Selected publications *1877. Orthopteren vom Senegal. ''Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Wien'', 14, no. xvi : 141-145. *1878. Orthopteren vom Senegal gesammelt von Dr. Frantz Steindachner. ''Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Wien'', (incorrectly dated 1877), 76 (1) : 29-63, 2 pl. *1890. Erklärung der Orthopteren-Tafeln Marie Jules Cesar Lelorgne de Savigny, J. C. Savigny’s in der "Description de l’Égypte". Aus der Literatur zusammengestellt und mit Bemerkungen Versehen. ''Verhandlungen der zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien'', 40 : 227-272. *1891. Beitrag zur Kenntniss westafrikanischer Orthopteren. 2. Ort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamphagidae
Pamphagidae is a family of grasshoppers belonging to the superfamily Acridoidea. The species in this family can be found in Africa, Europe and Asia. Subfamilies, Tribes and selected Genera The Orthoptera Species File lists the following: Akicerinae Auth.: Bolívar, 1916 – southern Africa; all genera: ;tribe Akicerini Bolívar, 1916 (monotypic) # '' Akicera'' Serville, 1831 ;''Incertae sedis'' # '' Adephagus'' Saussure, 1887 # '' Batrachornis'' Saussure, 1884 # '' Batrachotetrix'' Burmeister, 1838 # '' Eremotettix'' Saussure, 1888 Echinotropinae Auth.: Dirsh, 1961 – southern Africa; all genera: # '' Echinotropis'' Uvarov, 1944 # '' Geloiomimus'' Saussure, 1899 # '' Parageloiomimus'' Dirsh, 1961 # '' Thrincotropis'' Saussure, 1899 Pamphaginae Auth.: Burmeister, 1840 – northern Africa, Europe, W. Asia; selected genera: ;tribe Euryparyphini La Greca, 1993 * ''Eunapiodes'' Bolívar, 1907 * ''Euryparyphes'' Fischer, 1853 ;tribe Finotiini Bolívar, 1916 (monotypic) * '' Finotia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label= Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label= Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and immediately south of the French island of Corsica. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of Autonomous administrative division, domestic autonomy being granted by a Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian and Sardinian language, Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces of Italy, provinces and a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city. The capital of the region of Sardinia — and its largest city — is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese Catalan are referred to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet. As a result of their plant diet, herbivorous animals typically have mouthparts adapted to rasping or grinding. Horses and other herbivores have wide flat teeth that are adapted to grinding grass, tree bark, and other tough plant material. A large percentage of herbivores have mutualistic gut flora that help them digest plant matter, which is more difficult to digest than animal prey. This flora is made up of cellulose-digesting protozoans or bacteria. Etymology Herbivore is the anglicized form of a modern Latin coinage, ''herbivora'', cited in Charles Lyell's 1830 '' Principles of Geology''.J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner, eds. (2000) ''The Oxford English Dictionary'', vol. 8, p. 155. Richard Owen employed the anglicized term in an 1854 work on fossil teeth and skeletons. ''Herbivora'' is derived from Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insects Described In 1840
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Their blood is not totally contained in vessels; some circulates in an open cavity known as the haemocoel. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; In: potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within. Nearly all insects hatch from eggs. Insect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthoptera Of Europe
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grasshoppers, locusts, and close relatives; and Ensifera – crickets and close relatives. More than 20,000 species are distributed worldwide. The insects in the order have incomplete metamorphosis, and produce sound (known as a "stridulation") by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps. The tympanum, or ear, is located in the front tibia in crickets, mole crickets, and bush crickets or katydids, and on the first abdominal segment in the grasshoppers and locusts. These organisms use vibrations to locate other individuals. Grasshoppers and other orthopterans are able to fold their wings (i.e. they are members of Neoptera). Etymology The name is derived from the Greek ὀρθ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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