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Volucella Plumatoides
''Volucella'' is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward. They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators. Selected species *''Volucella abdita'' Violovich, 1978 *''Volucella anastasia'' Hull, 1946 *''Volucella arctica'' Johnson, 1916 *''Volucella bombylans'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *''Volucella dracaena'' Curran *''Volucella elegans'' Loew, 1862 *''Volucella eugenia'' Williston, 1887 *''Volucella evecta'' Walker, 1852 *''Volucella facialis'' Williston, 1882 *''Volucella flavizona'' Cheng, 2012 *''Volucella galbicorpus'' Cheng, 2012 *''Volucella inanis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Volucella inflata'' (Fabricius, 1794) *''Volucella jeddona'' Bigot, 1875 *'' Volucella latifasciata'' Cheng, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volucella Pellucens
''Volucella pellucens'', the pellucid fly, is a hoverfly. Distribution and habitat This species occurs in much of Europe, and across the Palearctic to Japan. The adult ''V. pellucens'' is usually found in woodlands and wooded hedgerows, but will enter gardens. Description ''Volucella pellucens'' is about 13–17 mm in length, with a wing length about 10–15.5 mm.Stuart Ball, S. G. Ball, Roger MorriBritain's Hoverflies: An Introduction to the Hoverflies of Britain/ref> This hoverfly has a broad, mainly black body, but the front part of the abdomen has a broad, yellow band, giving it the appearance of a bee or wasp. The two wings are transparent, as with most diptera, flies, but the leading edge is amber, with a brown patch on each wing. The mimicry of bees or wasps in shape and colouration is shown by other hoverflies, which is thought to protect against falling prey to birds and other insectivores that avoid eating true wasps because of their stings. However, the dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volucella Inanis
''Volucella inanis'' is a species of hoverfly belonging to the family Syrphidae. Distribution This species is present in most of Europe, in eastern Palearctic realm, in the Near East and in North Africa. Description The adults reach long. They have three yellow bands on an otherwise black abdomen and thus closely resemble wasps in a form of mimicry. The first two bands are completely or partially interrupted by a black wedge. The head has feather-like antennae and the wings have darkened patches in the middle and on the tip. Biology ''Volucella inanis'' can be encountered from early July to early September, feeding on flowers of species such as yarrow (''Achillea millefolium''), dill ('' Anethum graveolens''), heather (''Erica'' species), thistles (genera ''Carduus'', ''Cirsium'', and ''Onopordum'') and ''Buddleja davidii''. The female lays eggs in the nests of social wasps and hornets (''Vespa crabro'', ''Vespula germanica'', etc.). The larvae of this hoverfly are ectopar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volucella Galbicorpus
''Volucella'' is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward. They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators. Selected species *''Volucella abdita'' Violovich, 1978 *'' Volucella anastasia'' Hull, 1946 *'' Volucella arctica'' Johnson, 1916 *'' Volucella bombylans'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Volucella dracaena'' Curran *'' Volucella elegans'' Loew, 1862 *'' Volucella eugenia'' Williston, 1887 *'' Volucella evecta'' Walker, 1852 *'' Volucella facialis'' Williston, 1882 *'' Volucella flavizona'' Cheng, 2012 *'' Volucella galbicorpus'' Cheng, 2012 *'' Volucella inanis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Volucella inflata'' ( Fabricius, 1794) *'' Volucella jeddona'' Bigot, 1875 *'' Volucella latifascia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Walker (entomologist)
Francis Walker (31 July 1809 – 5 October 1874) was an English entomologist. He was born in Southgate, London, on 31 July 1809 and died at Wanstead, England on 5 October 1874. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms. However, his assiduous work on the collections of the British Museum had great significance. Between June 1848 and late 1873 Walker was contracted by John Edward Gray Director of the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum to catalogue their insects (except Coleoptera) that is Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Walker largely accomplished this and (Edwards, 1870) wrote of the plan and by implication those who implemented it: It is to him [Gray] that the Public owe the admirable helps to the study of natural history which have been afforded by the series of inventories, guides, and nomenclatures, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volucella Evecta
''Volucella evecta'', the eastern swiftwing, is an uncommon species of hoverfly that has been considered a subspecies of ''Volucella bombylans'', but has been shown to be a distinct species. This species is a bumblebee mimic. It resembles a number of species, including ''Bombus pensylvanicus'', ''Bombus affinis'', '' Bombus bimaculatus'', and '' Habropoda laboriosa''. The range of this species is from Eastern North America and Canada from Georgia to New Brunswick. The adults have been observed feeding on ''Geum'', ''Viburnum'', ''Rubus,'' and other flowering plants. Larvae of this species are not known, but larvae in this genus feed on the debris and larvae in bee and wasp nests. Description For terms see Morphology of Diptera Dipteran morphology differs in some significant ways from the broader insect morphology, morphology of insects. The Diptera is a very large and diverse Order (biology), order of mostly small to medium-sized insects. They have prominent compound ey .... S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Wendell Williston
Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1852 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator, entomologist, and Paleontology, paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight Origin of birds#Origin of bird flight, cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping from tree to tree). He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera. He is remembered for Williston's law, which states that parts in an organism, such as arthropod limbs, become reduced in number and specialized in function through evolutionary history. Early life Williston was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Williston and Jane A. Williston née Turner. As a young child, Williston's family travelled to Kansas Territory in 1857 under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to help fight the extension of slavery. He was raised in Manhattan, Kansas, attended public Manhattan High School, high school there, and graduated from Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volucella Eugenia
''Volucella'' is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward. They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators. Selected species *''Volucella abdita'' Violovich, 1978 *'' Volucella anastasia'' Hull, 1946 *'' Volucella arctica'' Johnson, 1916 *'' Volucella bombylans'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Volucella dracaena'' Curran *'' Volucella elegans'' Loew, 1862 *'' Volucella eugenia'' Williston, 1887 *'' Volucella evecta'' Walker, 1852 *''Volucella facialis'' Williston, 1882 *''Volucella flavizona'' Cheng, 2012 *''Volucella galbicorpus'' Cheng, 2012 *'' Volucella inanis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Volucella inflata'' ( Fabricius, 1794) *'' Volucella jeddona'' Bigot, 1875 *'' Volucella latifasciata' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Loew
Friedrich Hermann Loew (19 July 1807 – 21 April 1879) was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including Fly, flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the United States. Biography Early years Hermann Loew was born in Weissenfels, Saxony a short distance south of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Germany). The Loew family, though not wealthy, was well-placed. Loew's father was a functionary for the Department of Justice of the Duchy of Saxony who later became a ''Geheimer Regierungsrath'' of Prussia. Between 1817 and 1829 Loew attended first the Convent School of Rossleben, then the University of Halle-Wittenberg, graduating in mathematics, philology and natural history. Teacher, tutor and husband Recognizing his abilities as a mathematician, the university, on his graduation, appointed him as a lecturer in the same subjects. In 1830 he went to Berlin and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volucella Elegans
''Volucella'' is a genus of large, broad-bodied, dramatic hover-flies. They have distinctive plumose aristae and the face is extended downward. They are strongly migratory and males are often territorial. Adults feed on nectar of flowers and are often seen sunning on leaves. The larvae of most species live in nests of bumblebees and social wasps, where they are detritivores and larval predators. Selected species *''Volucella abdita'' Violovich, 1978 *'' Volucella anastasia'' Hull, 1946 *'' Volucella arctica'' Johnson, 1916 *'' Volucella bombylans'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Volucella dracaena'' Curran *'' Volucella elegans'' Loew, 1862 *''Volucella eugenia'' Williston, 1887 *'' Volucella evecta'' Walker, 1852 *''Volucella facialis'' Williston, 1882 *''Volucella flavizona'' Cheng, 2012 *''Volucella galbicorpus'' Cheng, 2012 *'' Volucella inanis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Volucella inflata'' ( Fabricius, 1794) *'' Volucella jeddona'' Bigot, 1875 *'' Volucella latifasciata'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
