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Sclerodermus Domesticus
''Sclerodermus domesticus'', also known as ''Scleroderma domesticus'', ''Scleroderma domesticum'', ''Scleroderma domestica'' or "antiquarian's friend", is a species of cuckoo wasp in the insect genus ''Sclerodermus''. It was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. Description ''Sclerodermus domesticus'' preys on Coleoptera including ''Anobium punctatum'', ''Stegobium paniceum'', ''Lasioderma serricorne'', ''Hylotrupes bajulus'' and ''Nicobium castaneum'', or occasionally Lepidoptera. Males have wings but lack a stinger. Females are 2–5 mm long; they have a stinger but lack wings. They are black/brown, and have the appearance of ants. Females enter woodworm holes, paralyze the woodworm larvae with the venom of the stinger and lay their eggs in the corpses, which form the food for the ''S. domesticus'' larvae. This behavior leads to the common name of "antiquarian's friend". Distribution and habitat ''S. domesticus'' is a cosmopolitan species. It prefers mild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuckoo Wasp
Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliant metallic colors created by structural coloration. They are most diverse in desert regions of the world, as they are typically associated with solitary bee and wasp species, which are also most diverse in such areas. Their brood parasitic lifestyle has led to the evolution of fascinating adaptations, including chemical mimicry of host odors by some species. Nomenclature The term "cuckoo wasp" refers to the cuckoo-like way in which wasps in the family lay eggs in the nests of unrelated host species. The term is also used for some wasps outside of the family, such as '' Sapyga louisi''. Chrysididae, the scientific name of the family, refers to their shiny bodies and is derived from Greek ''chrysis, chrysid-'', "gold vessel, gold-embroidered dress", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicobium Castaneum
''Nicobium castaneum'' is a species of death-watch beetle The deathwatch beetle (''Xestobium rufovillosum'') is a species of woodboring beetle that sometimes infests the structural timbers of old buildings. The adult beetle is brown and measures on average long. Eggs are laid in dark crevices in old w ... in the family Ptinidae. It is found in Africa, Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), North America, and Southern Asia. References Further reading * * Anobiinae Articles created by Qbugbot Beetles described in 1790 {{bostrichoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parasitic Infestations, Stings, And Bites Of The Skin
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophicallytransmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation. One major axis of classification concerns invasiveness: an endoparasite lives inside the host's body ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the historical Fertile Crescent, and later the Levant region. It also comprises Turkey (both Anatolia and East Thrace) and Egypt (mostly located in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula being in Asia). Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. According to the National Geographic Society, the terms ''Near East'' and ''Middle East'' denote the same territories and are "generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey". In 1997, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija; sk, Juhoslávia; ro, Iugoslavia; cs, Jugoslávie; it, Iugoslavia; tr, Yugoslavya; bg, Югославия, Yugoslaviya ) was a country in Southeast Europe and Central Europe for most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the '' Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes'' by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (which was formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary) with the Kingdom of Serbia, and constituted the first union of the South Slavic people as a sovereign state, following centuries in which the region had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Peter I of Serbia was its first sovereign. The kingdom gained international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sclerodermus Domesticus 2014-05-21
''Sclerodermus'' is a genus of cuckoo wasps in the family Bethylidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Sclerodermus''. Species These 24 species belong to the genus ''Sclerodermus'': * ''Sclerodermus abdominalis'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus brevicornis'' Kieffer, 1906 * ''Sclerodermus cereicollis'' Kieffer, 1904 * ''Sclerodermus concinnus'' Saunders, 1881 * ''Sclerodermus cylindricus'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus domesticus'' Klug, 1809 * ''Sclerodermus ephippius'' Saunders, 1881 * ''Sclerodermus fasciatus'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus fonscolombei'' Westwood, 1881 * ''Sclerodermus formiciformis'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus fulvicornis'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus fuscicornis'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus fuscus'' (Nees, 1834) * ''Sclerodermus gracilis'' Saunders, 1881 * ''Sclerodermus intermedius'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus linearis'' Westwood, 1881 * ''Sclerodermus minutus'' Westwood, 1839 * ''Sclerodermus nipponicus'' Yuasa, 1930 * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stinger
A stinger (or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal. An insect sting is complicated by its introduction of venom, although not all stings are venomous. Bites, which can introduce saliva as well as additional pathogens and diseases, are often confused with stings, and vice versa. Specific components of venom are believed to give rise to an allergic reaction, which in turn produces skin lesions that may vary from a small itching weal, or slightly elevated area of the skin, to large areas of inflamed skin covered by vesicles and crusted lesions. Stinging insects produce a painful swelling of the skin, the severity of the lesion varying according to the location of the sting, the identity of the insect and the sensitivity of the subject. Many species of bees and wasps have two poison glands, one gland secreting a toxin in which formic acid is one r ... [...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] |
Hylotrupes Bajulus
''Hylotrupes'' is a monotypic genus of woodboring beetles in the family Cerambycidae, the longhorn beetles. The sole species, ''Hylotrupes bajulus'', is known by several common names, including house longhorn beetle, old house borer, and European house borer. In South Africa it also is known as the Italian beetle because of infested packing cases that had come from Italy. ''Hylotrupes'' is the only genus in the tribe Hylotrupini Distribution This species, originating in Europe, and having been spread in timber and wood products, now has a practically cosmopolitan distribution, including Southern Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, and much of Europe and the Mediterranean. Description ''Hylotrupes bajulus'' can reach a body length of about , while mature larva can reach . These beetles are brown to black, appearing grey because of a fine grey furriness on most of the upper surface. On the pronotum two conspicuously hairless tubercles are characteristic of the species. On t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sclerodermus
''Sclerodermus'' is a genus of cuckoo wasps in the family Bethylidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Sclerodermus''. Species These 24 species belong to the genus ''Sclerodermus'': * '' Sclerodermus abdominalis'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus brevicornis'' Kieffer, 1906 * '' Sclerodermus cereicollis'' Kieffer, 1904 * '' Sclerodermus concinnus'' Saunders, 1881 * '' Sclerodermus cylindricus'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus domesticus'' Klug, 1809 * '' Sclerodermus ephippius'' Saunders, 1881 * '' Sclerodermus fasciatus'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus fonscolombei'' Westwood, 1881 * '' Sclerodermus formiciformis'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus fulvicornis'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus fuscicornis'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus fuscus'' (Nees, 1834) * '' Sclerodermus gracilis'' Saunders, 1881 * '' Sclerodermus intermedius'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus linearis'' Westwood, 1881 * '' Sclerodermus minutus'' Westwood, 1839 * '' Sclerodermus nipponicus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasioderma Serricorne
''Lasioderma serricorne'', commonly known as the cigarette beetle, cigar beetle, or tobacco beetle, is an insect very similar in appearance to the drugstore beetle (''Stegobium paniceum'') and the common furniture beetle (''Anobium punctatum''). All three species belong to the family Ptinidae. ''L. serricorne'' is around 2–3 mm long, and brown in colour. The beetles, which can fly, live 2–6 weeks and do not feed as adults. They can be distinguished from ''A. punctatum'' by the fact that ''A. punctatum'' has a thorax with a pronounced "humped" shape. ''S. paniceum'' and ''L. serricorne'' have thoraces which have a much less obtuse looking angle when viewed from the side compared to ''A. punctatum'', and thus could be difficult to tell apart. However ''S. paniceum'' has a distinct three-segmented "club" at the end of each antenna whereas ''L. serricorne'' has uniformly serrated antennae of 11 segments. ''L. serricorne'' also has much weaker punctures on the surface of the wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stegobium Paniceum
The drugstore beetle (''Stegobium paniceum''), also known as the bread beetle, biscuit beetle, and misnamed as the biscuit weevil (despite not being a true weevil), is a tiny, brown beetle that can be found infesting a wide variety of dried plant products, where it is among the most common non-weevils to be found. It is the only living member of the genus ''Stegobium''. It belongs to the family Ptinidae, which also includes the deathwatch beetle and furniture beetle. The drugstore beetle has a worldwide distribution though it is more common in warmer climates. It is similar in appearance to the cigarette beetle (''Lasioderma serricorne''), but is slightly larger (adults can be up to 3.5 mm in length). Additionally, drugstore beetles have antennae ending in 3-segmented clubs, while cigarette beetles have serrated antennae (notched like teeth of a saw). The drugstore beetle also has grooves running longitudinally along the elytra, whereas the cigarette beetle is smooth. Larv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
