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Aulocera Loha
''Aulocera'' is a genus in the subfamily Satyrinae (or brown butterflies) of the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. Commonly referred to as banded satyrs, species of the genus ''Aulocera'' are endemic to the Himalayas and associated mountain ranges.Markku Savela's website on Lepidopter"''Aulocera'' Butler, 1867"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Taxonomy ''Aulocera'' is considered to be a valid genus by some authorities and a junior subjective synonym of the basal genus '' Satyrus'' by others.. Accessed 27 April 2017. List of species * '' Aulocera sybillina'' Oberthür, 1890 * '' Aulocera brahminus'' (Blanchard, 1853) * '' Aulocera brahminoides'' (Moore, 1901) * '' Aulocera magica'' Oberthür, 1886 * '' Aulocera merlina'' Oberthür, 1890 * ''Aulocera padma'' (Kollar, 1844) * '' Aulocera loha'' ( Doherty, 1886) SE.Tibet, NW.Yunnan, Bhutan * ''Aulocera swaha'' (Kollar, 1844) * '' Aulocera saraswati'' (Kollar, 1844) General description Banded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulocera Saraswati
''Aulocera saraswati'', the striated satyr, is a brown (Satyrinae) butterfly that is found in the Himalayas."''Aulocera'' Butler, 1867" at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''LepIndex shows this taxon as ''Satyrus swaha''.[] LepIndex considers the genus ''Aulocera'' Butler, 1867; Ent. mon. Mag. 4: 121, TS: ''Satyrus brahminus'' Blanchard to be a junior subjective synonym of ''Satyrus'' Latreille 1810 Cons. gén. Anim. Crust. Arach. Ins.: 355, 440, TS: ''Papilio actaea'' Linnaeus.[] Range The butterfly is found in the Himalayas from Chitral eastwards across to Sikkim.Status In 1932,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street, but that may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836. Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company Museum London from 31 May 1848 on a "disestablished basis" and became a temporary writer and then an assistant curator at the East India Museum with a pension of £330 per annum from 31 December 1879. He had a daughter Rosa Martha Moore. He began compiling ''Lepidoptera indica'' (1890–1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asia in 10 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe. Many of the plates were produced by his son while some others were produced by E C Knight and John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyrini
The Satyrini is one of the tribes of the subfamily Satyrinae. It includes about 2200 species and is therefore the largest tribe in the subfamily which comprises 2500 species. Distribution Satyrini butterflies have a worldwide distribution, but the distribution pattern differs between subtribes. Some subtribes are almost restricted to a single biogeographic region, such as the Pronophilina, which is found only in Andean cloud forests from Venezuela to Bolivia. Biology The larval food plants of many species in this tribe are grasses, i.e. Poaceae. It is considered that the Satyrini diversified at about the same time as the grasses did, and that the radiation of the tribe is therefore closely related to the evolution of the grasses. In contrast, the tribe has a few genera which show uncommon feeding preferences. Three genera, '' Euptychia'', ''Ragadia'' and ''Acrophtalmia'', feed on Lycopsida, and moreover, some species of ''Euptychia'' have been reported to feed on mosses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulocera
''Aulocera'' is a genus in the subfamily Satyrinae (or brown butterflies) of the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. Commonly referred to as banded satyrs, species of the genus ''Aulocera'' are endemic to the Himalayas and associated mountain ranges.Markku Savela's website on Lepidopter"''Aulocera'' Butler, 1867"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Taxonomy ''Aulocera'' is considered to be a valid genus by some authorities and a junior subjective synonym of the basal genus ''Satyrus (genus), Satyrus'' by others.. Accessed 27 April 2017. List of species * ''Aulocera sybillina'' Charles Oberthür (entomologist), Oberthür, 1890 * ''Aulocera brahminus'' (Émile Blanchard, Blanchard, 1853) * ''Aulocera brahminoides'' (Frederic Moore, Moore, 1901) * ''Aulocera magica'' Oberthür, 1886 * ''Aulocera merlina'' Oberthür, 1890 * ''Aulocera padma'' (Vincenze Kollar, Kollar, 1844) * ''Aulocera loha'' (William Doherty, Doherty, 1886) SE.Tibet, NW.Yunnan, Bhuta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Butterflies Of India (Satyrinae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the subfamily Satyrinae of the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) which itself forms part of the complete List of butterflies of India. A total of 177 species belonging to 22 genera are found in India. ''Cyllogenes'' - evening browns * Scarce evening brown, '' Cyllogenes janetae'' de Nicéville, 1887 (Bhutan, Naga Hills.)Markku Savela's website on LepidopterPage on genus ''Cyllogenes''./ref> * Branded evening brown, '' Cyllogenes suradeva'' (Moore, 1857) (N.India, Sikkim - Bhutan.). ''Melanitis'' - evening browns * Common evening brown, ''Melanitis leda'' (Linnaeus, 1758)Markku Savela's website on LepidopterPage on genus ''Melanitis''./ref> * Dark evening brown, ''Melanitis phedima'' (Cramer, 1780) * Great evening brown, ''Melanitis zitenius'' (Herbst, 1796) ''Parantirrhoea'' - Travancore evening brown * Travancore evening brown, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth
Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth (15 August 1906 – 16 April 1963 Leysin, Switzerland) was an English schoolteacher and amateur naturalist who wrote one of the first field guides to the butterflies of the Indian region. He was also involved in censuses of the Asiatic lion at the Gir forest. Wynter-Blyth was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, studied at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He took an interest in nature study while still a student and moved to India in 1936 to become a house master at Bishop Cotton School. He later became headmaster of the preparatory school and here his meeting with A E Jones, an amateur lepidopterist, made him interested in butterflies. In 1941 he moved to the Nilgiris to take up a position as headmaster at St. George's School in Ketti; the school, which had been first recognized by the Education Department of Madras as a free primary school, was raised to the status of a high school in 1944 during his tenure. During the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay Natural History Society
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research. It supports many research efforts through grants and publishes the ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. Many prominent naturalists, including the ornithologists Sálim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley, have been associated with it. History British hunters in Bombay organized a hunting group around 1811, their activities included riding with foxhounds and shooting. A Bombay Hunt was supported by Sir Bartle Frere from 1862. A natural history society was begun, possibly as spinoff from the Bombay Geographical Society, in 1856 by Doctors Don (of Karachee), Andrew Henderson Leith (surgeon), George Buist, and Henry John Carter along with Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, then a registrar of the Supreme Court. The group did not last more than three years. On 15 September 1883 eight men interested in natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyespot (mimicry)
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking. They are found in butterflies, reptiles, cats, birds and fish. Eyespots could be explained in at least three different ways. They may be a form of mimicry in which a spot on the body of an animal resembles an eye of a different animal, to deceive potential predator or prey species. They may be a form of self-mimicry, to draw a predator's attention away from the prey's most vulnerable body parts. Or they may serve to make the prey appear inedible or dangerous. Eyespot markings may play a role in intraspecies communication or courtship; the best-known example is probably the eyespots on a peacock's display feathers. The pattern-forming biological process (morphogenesis) of eyespots in a wide variety of animals is controlled by a small number of genes active in embryonic development, including the genes called Engrailed, Distal-less, Hedgehog, Antennapedia, and the Notch signaling pathway. Artificial eyespots have been sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulocera Swaha
''Aulocera swaha'', the common satyr, is a brown (Satyrinae) butterfly that is found in the Himalayas."''Aulocera'' Butler, 1867" at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''LepIndex shows this taxon as ''Satyrus swaha''.[] LepIndex considers the genus ''Aulocera'' Butler, 1867; Ent. mon. Mag. 4: 121, TS: ''Satyrus brahminus'' Blanchard to be a junior subjective synonym of ''Satyrus'' Latreille 1810 Cons. gén. Anim. Crust. Arach. Ins.: 355, 440, TS: ''Papilio actaea'' Linnaeus.[] Range The butterfly is found in the Himalayas in Afghanistan, and from[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Doherty
William Doherty (May 15, 1857 in Cincinnati – May 25, 1901 in Nairobi) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring. He died of dysentery while in Nairobi. Travels From 1877 to 1881, before he became a collector, he traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East and thence to Persia. His entomological collecting activities commenced in earnest in 1882 while in South Asia. He collected butterflies in India, Burma, the Andaman Islands, Nicobar, Siam, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea and British East Africa and described many new species. After a visit to Hartert at Tring in 1895, he was recruited by Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, who came to regarded him as his best bird collector. While collecting in Uganda, he fell ill and was carried to a hospital by his Lepcha collectors. Collections His collections are shared between the American Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum in Pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aulocera Loha
''Aulocera'' is a genus in the subfamily Satyrinae (or brown butterflies) of the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. Commonly referred to as banded satyrs, species of the genus ''Aulocera'' are endemic to the Himalayas and associated mountain ranges.Markku Savela's website on Lepidopter"''Aulocera'' Butler, 1867"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Taxonomy ''Aulocera'' is considered to be a valid genus by some authorities and a junior subjective synonym of the basal genus '' Satyrus'' by others.. Accessed 27 April 2017. List of species * '' Aulocera sybillina'' Oberthür, 1890 * '' Aulocera brahminus'' (Blanchard, 1853) * '' Aulocera brahminoides'' (Moore, 1901) * '' Aulocera magica'' Oberthür, 1886 * '' Aulocera merlina'' Oberthür, 1890 * ''Aulocera padma'' (Kollar, 1844) * '' Aulocera loha'' ( Doherty, 1886) SE.Tibet, NW.Yunnan, Bhutan * ''Aulocera swaha'' (Kollar, 1844) * '' Aulocera saraswati'' (Kollar, 1844) General description Banded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenze Kollar
Vincenz Kollar (15 January 1797 in Kranowitz, Silesia – 30 May 1860 in Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He was especially concerned with species of economic interest, particularly those of forests. Kollar described many new species. He was Curator of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He worked mainly on insects collected on expeditions, especially that from the Austrian Brazil Expedition The Austrian expedition to Brazil (Österreichische Brasilien-Expedition) was a scientific expedition which explored Brazil. It was organized and financed by the Austrian Empire from 1817 to 1835. History The expedition had as its main supporter t ... of 1817–1835. Works *''Die vorzüglich lästigen Insekten Brasiliens'', p. 101-119. In J.E. Pohl. ''Reise im Innern von Brasiliens'', vol. I, 448p.(1832) * Aufzählung und Beschreibung der von Freih. Carl v. Hügel auf seiner Reise durch Kaschmir und das Himalayagebirge gesammelten Insekten. (mit L. Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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