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Amphicerus Cornutus
''Amphicerus cornutus'' is a horned powderpost beetle species in the genus '' Amphicerus''. References Bostrichidae Beetles described in 1772 Taxa named by Peter Simon Pallas {{Bostrichidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia between 1767 and 1810. Life and work Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University of Göttingen. In 1760, he moved to the University of Leiden and passed his doctor's degree at the age of 19. Pallas travelled throughout the Netherlands and to London, improving his medical and surgical knowledge. He then settled at The Hague, and his new system of animal classification was praised by Georges Cuvier. Pallas wrote ''Miscellanea Zoologica'' (1766), which included descriptions of several vertebrates new to science which he had discovered in the Dutch museum collections. A planned voyage to southern Africa and the East Indies fell through when his father reca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horned Powderpost Beetle
The Bostrichidae are a family of beetles with more than 700 described species. They are commonly called auger beetles, false powderpost beetles, or horned powderpost beetles. The head of most auger beetles cannot be seen from above, as it is downwardly directed and hidden by the thorax. Exceptions are the powderpost beetles (subfamily Lyctinae), and members of the subfamily Psoinae. ''Bostrychoplites cornutus'' has large, distinctive thoracic horns, and is found in parts of Africa and Arabia; it is often imported to Europe as larvae in African wooden bowls ("ethnic souvenirs") . The fossil record of the family extends to the Cretaceous, with the oldest records being from the Cenomanian aged Charentese and Burmese ambers, belonging to the extant genus ''Stephanopachys'' and the extant subfamilies Dinoderinae and Polycaoninae. Selected species This list is incomplete: * ''Amphicerus cornutus'' (Pallas, 1772) * ''Apate terebrans'' (Pallas, 1772) * '' Prostephanus truncatus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphicerus
''Amphicerus'' is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are about 14 described species in ''Amphicerus''. Species These 14 species belong to the genus ''Amphicerus'': * '' Amphicerus anobioides'' (Waterhouse, 1888) * '' Amphicerus bicaudatus'' (Say, 1824) (apple twig borer) * '' Amphicerus bimaculatus'' (Olivier, 1790) (grape cane borer beetle) * '' Amphicerus caenophradoides'' (Lesne, 1895) * '' Amphicerus clunalis'' Lesne, 1939 * ''Amphicerus cornutus'' (Pallas, 1772) (powderpost bostrichid) * '' Amphicerus galapaganus'' (Lesne, 1910) * '' Amphicerus hamatus'' (Fabricius, 1787) * '' Amphicerus lignator'' (Lesne, 1899) * '' Amphicerus malayanus'' (Lesne, 1898) * '' Amphicerus securimentum'' Lesne, 1939 * '' Amphicerus simplex'' (Horn, 1885) * '' Amphicerus teres'' Horn, 1878 * '' Amphicerus tubularis'' (Gorham, 1883) i c g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net References External links * * Bostrich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bostrichidae
The Bostrichidae are a family of beetles with more than 700 described species. They are commonly called auger beetles, false powderpost beetles, or horned powderpost beetles. The head of most auger beetles cannot be seen from above, as it is downwardly directed and hidden by the thorax. Exceptions are the powderpost beetles (subfamily Lyctinae), and members of the subfamily Psoinae. ''Bostrychoplites cornutus'' has large, distinctive thoracic horns, and is found in parts of Africa and Arabia; it is often imported to Europe as larvae in African wooden bowls ("ethnic souvenirs") . The fossil record of the family extends to the Cretaceous, with the oldest records being from the Cenomanian aged Charentese and Burmese ambers, belonging to the extant genus '' Stephanopachys'' and the extant subfamilies Dinoderinae and Polycaoninae. Selected species This list is incomplete: * '' Amphicerus cornutus'' (Pallas, 1772) * ''Apate terebrans'' (Pallas, 1772) * ''Prostephanus truncat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetles Described In 1772
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly hard exo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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