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Candalides Cyprotus
''Candalides cyprotus'', the cyprotus blue or copper pencil-blue, is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found along the east coast of Australia, including South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria. The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adults females are dark brown with a large blue patch near the centre of each forewing. Males are purple with a black trident mark near the centre of each forewing. The underside of both sexes is pale fawn with arcs of brown carets and dots under both the forewings and hindwings. The larvae have been recorded feeding on '' Conospermum taxifolium'', ''Grevillea huegelii'', '' Grevillea bracteosa'', '' Grevillea juniperina'', '' Hakea leucoptera'' and ''Jacksonia scoparia ''Jacksonia scoparia'', commonly known as dogwood (from its strong odour when burning), is a native species of a pea-flowered, greyish, leafless, broom-like shrub or small tree that occurs in the south east of Queensland, Australia a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Sidney Olliff
Arthur Sidney Olliff (21 October 1865 – 29 December 1895), was an Australian taxonomist who was active as Government entomologist in New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es .... He came to Australia in December 1844 to work at the Australian Museum. Discoveries *'' Rhinotia acrobeles'' (1889) Publications *''A chapter on collecting and preserving insects'' - Arthur Sidney Olliff (1889) *''Australian butterflies : a brief account of the native families : with a chapter on collecting & preserving insects'' - Arthur Sidney Olliff (1889) *The Mesozoic and Tertiary Insects of New South Wales' - Robert Etheridge, Junior, Arthur Sidney Olliff (1890) *''Insect pests. The maize moth (Heliothris armigera, Hub.)'' - Arthur Sidney Olliff (1890) *''Insect pests. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conospermum Taxifolium
''Conospermum taxifolium'', commonly known as variable smoke-bush, yew-leaf smoke bush or paint brush, is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and panicles of cream-coloured to white, tube-shaped flowers. Description ''Conospermum taxifolium'' is an erect shrub with rod-like branches and that typically grows to a height of up to . It has spreading to erect, twisted narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in panicles wide on the ends of branches or in leaf axils, on peduncles long. The flowers are sessile with a bluish bract about long at the base. The flowers are tube-shaped with white to cream-coloured tepals long and hairy on the outside. The upper lip of the flower is sac-like and the lower lip has three lobes. Flowering occurs from August to N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candalidini
Candalidini is a tribe of lycaenid butterflies in the subfamily Polyommatinae. Genera *''Candalides'' Hübner, 819 __NOTOC__ Year 819 (Roman numerals, DCCCXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Emperor Louis the Pious, Louis I marries Judith .../small> *'' Nesolycaena'' Waterhouse & Turner, 1905 *'' Zetona'' Waterhouse, 1938 References * * Butterfly tribes {{Polyommatinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacksonia Scoparia
''Jacksonia scoparia'', commonly known as dogwood (from its strong odour when burning), is a native species of a pea-flowered, greyish, leafless, broom-like shrub or small tree that occurs in the south east of Queensland, Australia and eastern New South Wales. Description ''Jacksonia scoparia'' grows as a shrub or small tree, reaching 12 m in height. Its grey bark is rough with furrows. Taxonomy Scottish botanist Robert Brown described the dogwood in 1811 in Rees's Cyclopædia, from material sent by John White and George Caley to Kew Garden. The genus name honours George Jackson and the species name is derived from the foliage, which resembles Scotch broom (''Cytisus scoparius''). Jenny Chappill classified it in Group 4 within the genus, along with '' Jacksonia chappilliae'', '' Jacksonia rhadinoclona'' and '' Jacksonia stackhousei''—all from eastern Australia. Dogwood Creek in Queensland was named after the profusion of the plant in the area by explorer Ludwig Leichhar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakea Leucoptera
''Hakea leucoptera'', commonly known as silver needlewood, needle hakea, pin bush or water tree and as booldoobah in Koori language, is a shrub or small tree with rigid, cylindrical, sharply pointed leaves and white, cream-coloured or yellow flowers in late spring and early summer. It is widespread and common in central parts of the Australian mainland. Description The habit of this plant is highly variable. It can be a small open branched tree to or a small multi stemmed shrub to . The habitat is usually coarse textured soils and associated with a wide variety of species in woodland communities. It is widespread throughout all mainland states occurring in dense thickets of shrubs, as scattered individual trees or a large parent tree surrounded by offspring. It has a reddish-brown close-grained timber that is soft but hard and brittle when dry. The silvery grey to grey-blue leaves are arranged alternately along the stems. They are rigid and cylindrical in varying length from lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Juniperina
''Grevillea juniperina'', commonly known as juniper- or juniper-leaf grevillea or prickly spider-flower, is a plant of the family Proteaceae native to eastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland in Australia. Scottish botanist Robert Brown described the species in 1810, and seven subspecies are recognised. One subspecies, ''G. j. juniperina'', is restricted to Western Sydney and environs and is threatened by loss of habitat and housing development. A small, prickly-leaved shrub between high, ''G. juniperina'' generally grows on clay-based or alluvial soils in eucalypt woodland. The flower heads, known as inflorescences, appear from winter to early summer and are red, orange or yellow. Birds visit and pollinate the flowers. ''Grevillea juniperina'' plants are killed by bushfire, regenerating afterwards from seed. ''Grevillea juniperina'' adapts readily to cultivation and has been important in horticulture as it is the parent of many popular garden hybrids. Descrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Bracteosa
''Grevillea bracteosa'', also known as bracted grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub usually with linear leaves, and oval to more or less spherical clusters of glabrous pale green to greenish-pink flowers with a pink or white style. Description ''Grevillea bracteosa'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. The leaves are mostly linear, long and wide with the edges rolled under, and two longitudinal grooves on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in oval or more or less spherical clusters at the ends of stems, on a rachis long, and are pale green to greenish pink with a deep rose-pink to pale pink or white style. The pistil is long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a glabrous oval follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea bracteosa'' was first formally de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Huegelii
''Grevillea huegelii'', commonly known as comb spider-flower or comb grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with divided leaves with mostly three to eleven sharply-pointed linear lobes, and clusters of red to pink flowers that are silky-hairy on the outside. Description ''Grevillea huegelii'' is an erect to low-lying or straggling shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. Its leaves are long and wide in outline with mostly three to eleven sharply-pointed, linear lobes long and wide, the edges rolled under obscuring most of the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in loose clusters on a silky-hairy rachis usually long, the perianth straight, red to pink and silky-hairy on the outside, the pistil long. Flowering occurs in most months with a peak from July to December, and the fruit is a glabrous follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea huegelii'' was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caret
Caret is the name used familiarly for the character , provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing . The symbol has a variety of uses in programming and mathematics. The name "caret" arose from its visual similarity to the original proofreader's caret, a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. The formal ASCII standard (X3.64.1977) calls it a "circumflex". History Typewriters On typewriters designed for languages that routinely use diacritics (accent marks), there are two possible ways to type these. Keys can be dedicated to precomposed characters (with the diacritic included) or alternatively a dead key mechanism can be provided. With the latter, a mark is made when a dead key is typed but, unlike normal keys, the paper carriage does not move on and thus the next letter to be typed is printed under the accent. The symbol was originally provided in typewriters and computer printers so that circumfl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily (zoology), superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo Holometabolism, complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stood at and owned one of the largest wingspans at . Wingspan of aircraft The wingspan of an aircraft is always measured in a straight line, from wingtip to wingtip, independently of wing shape or sweep. Implications for aircraft design and anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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