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Bibasis Oedipodea
''Bibasis oedipodea'', the branded orange awlet,Markku Savela's website on Lepidopter/ref> is a species of Hesperiidae, hesperid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The butterfly was reassigned to the genus ''Burara'' by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is considered by them to be ''Burara oedipodea''.Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages ogenus ''Bibasis''angenus ''Burara''in thTree of Life Web Project state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the Crepuscular animal, crepuscular remainder having been removed to ''Burara''. The species now shifted to ''Burara'' are Morphology (biology), morphologically and behaviorally distinct from ''Bibasis'', within which many authors have formerly included them. Range The branded orange awlet is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Java, Thailand and Vietnam. In India, the butterfly is found along the Himalayas from Mussoorie to Assam. The type locality is Java in Indonesia. Description T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Swainson
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist. Life Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of John Timothy Swainson the Second (1756–1824), an original fellow of the Linnean Society. He was cousin of the amateur botanist Isaac Swainson.Etymologisches Worterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen by H. Genaust. Review by Paul A. Fryxell ''Taxon'', Vol. 38(2), 245–246 (1989). His father's family originated in Lancashire, and both grandfather and father held high posts in Her Majesty's Customs, the father becoming Collector at Liverpool. William, whose formal education was curtailed because of an impediment in his speech, joined the Liverpool Customs as a junior clerk at the age of 14."William Swainson F.R.S, F.L.S., Naturalist and Artist: Diaries 1808–1838: Sicily, Malta, Greece, Italy and Brazil." G .M. Swainson, Palmerston, NZ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |