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Podolasia (beetle)
''Podolasia'' is a genus of May beetles and junebugs in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about 11 described species in ''Podolasia''. Species These 11 species belong to the genus ''Podolasia'': * '' Podolasia emarginata'' Howden, 1954 * '' Podolasia ferruginea'' (LeConte, 1856) * '' Podolasia involucris'' Howden, 1998 * '' Podolasia lavignei'' Howden, 1997 * '' Podolasia longipenis'' Howden, 1997 * '' Podolasia longipennis'' Howden, 1997 * '' Podolasia peninsularis'' Howden, 1954 * '' Podolasia pilosa'' Howden, 1954 * '' Podolasia rotundipenis'' Howden, 1997 * '' Podolasia stillwellorum'' Howden, 1997 * '' Podolasia varicolor'' Saylor, 1948 i c g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net References Further reading * * * * * Melolonthinae Articles created by Qbugbot {{Melolonthinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several subfamilies have been elevated to family rank (e.g., Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Glaphyridae, Hybosoridae, Ochodaeidae, and Pleocomidae), and some reduced to lower ranks. The subfamilies listed in this article are in accordance with those in Bouchard (2011). Description Scarabs are stout-bodied beetles, many with bright metallic colours, measuring between . They have distinctive, clubbed antenna (biology), antennae composed of plates called lamella (zoology), lamellae that can be compressed into a ball or fanned out like leaves to sense odours. Many species are fossorial, with legs adapted for digging. In some groups males (and sometimes females) have prominent horns on the head and/or pronotum to fight over mates or re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podolasia Emarginata
''Podolasia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The single known species in the genus is ''Podolasia stipitata''. It is native to Borneo, Sumatra, and Peninsular Malaysia. ''Podolasia stipitata'' has vegetative features that are similar to the genus ''Lasia'' and has floral features similar to the genus ''Cyrtosperma''. It has leathery leaves that can vary from being hastate to sagittate (arrow-shaped). The inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed ... is white when first produced but begin to turn purple from the top down as male anthesis begins. The fruit produced is large and red.Bown, Demi (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family''. Timber Press. . References Lasioideae Monotypic Araceae genera Flora of Malesia Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
