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Attalea Phalerata
''Attalea phalerata'' is a species of palm tree known by the English common name urucuri palm, the Portuguese common name ''urucurizeiro'', and the Spanish common name ''shapaja''. Other common names include ''motacu''Justi, S. A., et al. (2010)Infestation of peridomestic ''Attalea phalerata'' palms by ''Rhodnius stali'', a vector of ''Trypanosoma cruzi'' in the Alto Beni, Bolivia.''Tropical Medicine and International Health'' 15(6) 727-32. and ''bacuri''.Galetti, M. and P. R. Guimarães Jr. (2004)Seed dispersal of ''Attalea phalerata'' (Palmae) by Crested caracaras (''Caracara plancus'') in the Pantanal and a review of frugivory by raptors.''Ararajuba'' 12(2) 133-35. It is native to Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru, where it grows along southern and western Amazonia.Choo, J., et al. (2010)Characterization of 14 microsatellite loci in a tropical palm, ''Attelea phalerata'' (Arecaceae).''American Journal of Botany'' e105-e106. It is the most common palm tree on the Pantanal.Corrà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius
Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botanist and explorer. Life Martius was born at Erlangen, the son of Prof Ernst Wilhelm Martius, court apothecary. He graduated PhD from Erlangen University in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the university's botanical garden. After that he continued to devote himself to botanical study, and in 1817 he and Johann Baptist von Spix were sent to Brazil by Maximilian I Joseph, the king of Bavaria. They travelled from Rio de Janeiro through several of the southern and eastern provinces of Brazil and travelled up the Amazon River to Tabatinga, as well as exploring some of its larger tributaries. On his return to Europe in 1820 Martius was appointed as the keeper of the botanic garden at Munich, including the herbarium at the Munich Botanical Collection, and in 1826 as professor of botany in the university there, and he held both offices unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyomys
''Clyomys'' is a South American rodent genus in the family Echimyidae. It contains two species, found in tropical savannas and grasslands from circa to elevation in central Brazil and eastern Paraguay. The term ''Clyomys'' derives from the two ancient greek words (, or ''clyo''), meaning "to listen, to prick up one's ears", and (), meaning "mouse, rat". The ''Clyomys '' species are as follows: * Broad-headed spiny rat (''Clyomys laticeps'') * †''Clyomys riograndensis'' Phylogeny ''Clyomys'' is the sister genus to ''Euryzygomatomys''. Both taxa are closely related to the genus ''Trinomys''. In turn, these three genera — forming the clade of Euryzygomatomyinae — share phylogenetic affinities with a clade containing ''Carterodon Owl's spiny rat (''Carterodon sulcidens'') is a rodent species in the family Echimyidae found in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madarini
Madarini is a true weevil tribe in the subfamily Baridinae.Faust, J. 1899: Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XXIII. Curculionidae. ont.''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova'', 40: 65-80. Genera * '' Acanthomadarus'' * '' Acythopeus'' * '' Acythophanes'' * '' Ampeloglypter'' * '' Amyctides'' * '' Anazalinus'' * '' Angelocentris'' * '' Anisorrhamphus'' * '' Antesis'' * '' Apolpones'' * '' Aponychius'' * '' Athesapeuta'' * '' Barinogyna'' * '' Barymerus'' * '' Bromesia'' * '' Calandromimus'' * '' Centrinopsimorpha'' * '' Chalcomadaras'' * '' Chapatiella'' * '' Codmius'' * '' Conoproctus'' * '' Crassiopus'' * '' Cropelia'' * '' Cynethia'' * '' Degis'' * '' Dendrobaris'' * '' Diorycaulus'' * '' Elasmorhinus'' * '' Eumycterus'' * '' Eutoxus'' * '' Glyptobaris'' * '' Groatus'' * '' Hasidus'' * '' Hulpes'' * '' Hulpesellus'' * '' Hustachea'' * '' Ipsichora'' * '' Keibaris'' * '' Lepidomyctides'' * '' Leptoscho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curculionidae
The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils. They are one of the largest animal families, with 6,800 genera and 83,000 species described worldwide. They are the sister group to the family Brentidae. They include the bark beetles as the subfamily Scolytinae, which are modified in shape in accordance with their wood-boring lifestyle. They do not much resemble other weevils, so they were traditionally considered a distinct family, Scolytidae. The family also includes the ambrosia beetles, of which the present-day subfamily Platypodinae was formerly considered the distinct family Platypodidae. Description Adult Curculionidae can be recognised by the well-developed, downwards-curved snout (rostrum) possessed by many species, though the rostrum is sometimes short (e.g. Entiminae). They have elbowed antennae that end in clubs, and the first antennal segment often fits into a groove in the side of the rostrum. The body tends to be robus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystrops
''Mystrops'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Nitidulidae The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family (biology), family of beetles. They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antenna (biology), antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They fe .... The species of this genus are found in Southern America. Species: *'' Mystrops dufaui'' *'' Mystrops insularis'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q107382692 Nitidulidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nitidulidae
The sap beetles, also known as Nitidulidae, are a family (biology), family of beetles. They are small (2–6 mm) ovoid, usually dull-coloured beetles, with knobbed antenna (biology), antennae. Some have red or yellow spots or bands. They feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter, over-ripe fruit, and sap. Sap beetles coexist with fungi species and live in habitats of coniferous trees. They are found all across Europe and Siberia and are the biggest nutudulid species known in those areas. There are a few Pest (organism), pest species. An example of a pest species is the Stelidota geminata, strawberry sap beetle that infest crops in Brazil between the months of August and February. * the picnic beetle, ''Glischrochilus quadrisignatus'' * the dusky sap beetle, ''Carpophilus lugubris'' * the Stelidota geminata, strawberry sap beetle, ''Stelidota geminata'' * the small hive beetle, ''Aethina tumida'' The oldest unambiguous fossils of the family date to the Early Cretaceous, belong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollination
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents can be animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower. Pollination often occurs within a species. When pollination occurs between species, it can produce hybrid offspring in nature and in plant breeding work. In angiosperms, after the pollen grain (gametophyte) has landed on the stigma, it germinates and develops a pollen tube which grows down the style until it reaches an ovary. Its two gametes travel down the tube to where the gametophyte(s) containing the female gametes are held within the carpel. After entering an ovum cell through the micropyle, one male nucleus fuses with the polar bodies to produce the endosperm tissues, while the other fuses with the ovule to produce the embr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epiphyte
An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phorophytes. Epiphytes take part in nutrient cycles and add to both the diversity and biomass of the ecosystem in which they occur, like any other organism. They are an important source of food for many species. Typically, the older parts of a plant will have more epiphytes growing on them. Epiphytes differ from parasites in that they grow on other plants for physical support and do not necessarily affect the host negatively. An organism that grows on another organism that is not a plant may be called an epibiont. Epiphytes are usually found in the temperate zone (e.g., many mosses, liverworts, lichens, and algae) or in the tropics (e.g., many ferns, cacti, orchids, and bromeliads). Epiphyte species make good houseplants due to their minimal wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germination
Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore. The term is applied to the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, such as the spores of fungi, ferns, bacteria, and the growth of the pollen tube from the pollen grain of a seed plant. Seed plants Germination is usually the growth of a plant contained within a seed; it results in the formation of the seedling. It is also the process of reactivation of metabolic machinery of the seed resulting in the emergence of radicle and plumule. The seed of a vascular plant is a small package produced in a fruit or cone after the union of male and female reproductive cells. All fully developed seeds contain an embryo and, in most plant species some store of food reserves, wrapped in a seed coat. Some plants produce varying numbers of seeds that lack embryos; these are empty seeds which never germinate. Dormant seeds are viable seeds that do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruit Bat
Megabats constitute the family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats). They are also called fruit bats, Old World fruit bats, or—especially the genera ''Acerodon'' and ''Pteropus''—flying foxes. They are the only member of the superfamily Pteropodoidea, which is one of two superfamilies in the suborder Yinpterochiroptera. Internal divisions of Pteropodidae have varied since subfamilies were first proposed in 1917. From three subfamilies in the 1917 classification, six are now recognized, along with various tribes. As of 2018, 197 species of megabat had been described. The leading theory of the evolution of megabats has been determined primarily by genetic data, as the fossil record for this family is the most fragmented of all bats. They likely evolved in Australasia, with the common ancestor of all living pteropodids existing approximately 31 million years ago. Many of their lineages probably originated in Melanesia, then dispersed over time to mainland Asia, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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