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Tajuria Megistia
''Tajuria megistia'', the black royal is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm.Bernard d'Abrera (1986) ''Butterflies of the Oriental Region''. Part 3: Lycaenidae and Riodinidae Hill House Publishers Subspecies *''T. m. megistia'' Assam *''T. m. thria'' de Nicéville, 896 __NOTOC__ Year 896 ( DCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * February – King Arnulf of Carinthia invades Italy at the head of an East Frankish expeditionary army. He storms ... Burma, Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra References {{Taxonbar, from=Q21316311 Tajuria Butterflies described in 1869 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tajuria Albiplaga
''Tajuria albiplaga'', the pallid royal , is a species of Lycaenidae, lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. Bernard d'Abrera (1986) ''Butterflies of the Oriental Region''. Part 3: Lycaenidae and Riodinidae Hill House Publishers Subspecies *''T. a. albiplaga'' Sikkim, Assam *''T. a. pallescens'' Druce, [1903] Assam, Burma, Thailand *''T. a. alixae'' Eliot, 1973 Peninsular Malaya *''T. a. tura'' de Nicéville, 1895 Java, Sumatra References {{Taxonbar, from=Q13485746 Tajuria Butterflies described in 1887 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Chapman Hewitson
William Chapman Hewitson (9 January 1806, in Newcastle upon Tyne – 28 May 1878, in Oatlands Park, Surrey) was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was particularly devoted to Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and, also, to birds' nests and eggs. His collection of butterflies, collected by him as well as purchased from travellers throughout the world, was one of the largest and most important of his time. He contributed to and published many works on entomology and ornithology and was an accomplished scientific illustrator. Life William Hewitson was educated in York. He became a land-surveyor and was for some time employed under George Stephenson on the London and Birmingham Railway. Delicate health and the accession to an ample fortune through the death of a relative led him to give up his profession and he afterwards devoted himself to scientific studies. He lived for a time at Bristol and Hampstead. In 1848 he purchased ten or t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues (Polyommatinae), the coppers (Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks (Theclinae), and the harvesters (Miletinae). Description, food, and life cycle Adults are small, under 5 cm usually, and brightly coloured, sometimes with a metallic gloss. Lycaenidae wings are generally blue or green. More than half of these butterflies depend on ants in some way. Larvae are often flattened rather than cylindrical, with glands that may produce secretions that attract and subdue ants. Their cuticles tend to be thickened. Some larvae are capable of producing vibrations and low sounds that are transmitted through the substrates they inhabit. They use these sounds to commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indomalayan Realm
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. Major ecol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard D'Abrera
Bernard d'Abrera (28 August 1940 – 13 January 2017) was an Australian entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science, particularly noted for his books on true butterflies (Papilionoidea Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...) and larger moths of the world (Saturniidae and Sphingidae). Referred to as one of the world's best-known lepidopterists by ''The Daily Telegraph'', his work since 1982 was openly critical of evolution. Biography Bernard d'Abrera was a graduate of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. While at the university in 1964 he with a group of other students kidnapped an alligator from Taronga Zoo as a Foundation Day prank. Using 80 biology students as a shield, the group captured the animal in a bag and walked out through the tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tajuria
''Tajuria'' is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Species *'' Tajuria alangani'' Schröder, Treadaway & Nuyda, 1993 Philippines *'' Tajuria albiplaga'' de Nicéville, 1887 *'' Tajuria androconia'' Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002 *'' Tajuria arida'' Riley, 1923 *'' Tajuria berenis'' Druce, 1896 *'' Tajuria cippus'' (Fabricius, 1798) *'' Tajuria caelurea'' Nire, 1926 *'' Tajuria culta'' (de Nicéville, 896 *'' Tajuria cyrillus'' (Hewitson, 1865) *'' Tajuria deudorix'' (Hewitson, 1869) *'' Tajuria diaeus'' (Hewitson, 1865) *'' Tajuria discalis'' Fruhstorfer, 1897 *'' Tajuria dominus'' Druce, 1895 *'' Tajuria gui'' Chou & Wang, 1994 China *'' Tajuria iapyx'' (Hewitson, 1865) *'' Tajuria igolotiana'' (Murayama & Okamura, 1973) Philippines *'' Tajuria illurgioides'' de Nicéville, 1890 North India, Assam, Sikkim *'' Tajuria illurgis'' (Hewitson, 1869) *'' Tajuria inexpectata'' Eliot, 1973 Sumatra, Borneo, Peninsular Malaya *'' Tajuria isaeus'' (Hewitson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
