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Charaxes Montis
''Charaxes montis'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The habitat consists of montane forests. The larvae feed on ''Albizia gummifera''. Taxonomy Described as a subspecies of ''Charaxes dilutus'', later regarded as a full species by Victor Van Someren. Similar species ''Charaxes subornatus'' is in the ''Charaxes eupale'' species group (clade). The clade members are: *'' Charaxes subornatus'' *'' Charaxes eupale'' *''Charaxes dilutus'' *''Charaxes montis'' *'' Charaxes minor'' *''Charaxes schiltzei'' *''Charaxes schultzei'' *''Charaxes virescens'' Bouyer et al., 2008 erected the genus ''Viridixes'' Bouyer & Vingerhoedt, 2008 to accommodate species belonging to the ''eupale'' species group. Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E.V., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. 2008: Les Charaxes du groupe eupale: description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Herbert Elliot Jackson
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Herbert Elliot Jackson (12 January 1903 – 22 May 1968) was an English coffee farmer in Kenya. He served as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War, seeing service with the King's African Rifles and as a military administrator in British Somaliland. Jackson served in the Kenyan colonial administration during the Mau Mau Rebellion. Jackson was also a keen entomologist best known for his studies of African butterflies. He amassed the largest collection of native butterflies in Africa, that was donated to museums across the world. Jackson was murdered at his farm at Kitale in 1968. Early life Jackson was born in Dorset, England, on 12 January 1903, the son of Brigadier-General Herbert Kendall Jackson. He was educated at Wellington College and his father intended for Jackson to follow him into the army. Jackson instead chose a different career and attended Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire. He visited Kenya briefly i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clade
A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, the equivalent Latin term ''cladus'' (plural ''cladi'') is often used in taxonomical literature. The common ancestor may be an individual, a population, or a species (extinct or extant). Clades are nested, one in another, as each branch in turn splits into smaller branches. These splits reflect evolutionary history as populations diverged and evolved independently. Clades are termed monophyletic (Greek: "one clan") groups. Over the last few decades, the cladistic approach has revolutionized biological classification and revealed surprising evolutionary relationships among organisms. Increasingly, taxonomists try to avoid naming taxa that are not clades; that is, taxa that are not monophyletic. Some of the relationships between organisms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consortium For The Barcode Of Life
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. Barcoding was proposed in 2003 by Prof. Paul Hebert of the University of Guelph in Ontario as a way of distinguishing and identifying species with a short standardized gene sequence. Hebert proposed the 658 bases of the Folmer region of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome-C oxidase-1 as the standard barcode region. Hebert is the Director of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, and the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL), all headquartered at the University of Guelph. The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is also located at the University of Guelph. CBOL was created in May 2004 with support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Museum For Central Africa
The Royal Museum for Central Africa or RMCA ( nl, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika or KMMA; french: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale or MRAC; german: Königliches Museum für Zentralafrika or KMZA), also officially known as the AfricaMuseum, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels. It was built to showcase King Leopold II's Congo Free State in the International Exposition of 1897. The museum focuses on the Congo, a former Belgian colony. The sphere of interest, however, especially in biological research, extends to the whole Congo River basin, Middle Africa, East Africa, and West Africa, attempting to integrate "Africa" as a whole. Intended originally as a colonial museum, from 1960 onwards it has focused more on ethnography and anthropology. Like most museums, it houses a research department in addition to its public exhibit department. Not all research pertains to Africa (e.g. research on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren
Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren (1886 in Melbourne – 24 July 1976) was a zoologist and entomologist. Van Someren was born in Australia. He attended George Watson's College and studied zoology at University of Edinburgh. He was also a dentist. Van Someren moved to Kenya in 1912 and lived in Nairobi. He was in the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society and became Honorary Secretary. In 1930 he became Curator of the Coryndon Museum. Van Someren named a number of bird and butterfly species. Species named after him include the fish '' Labeobarbus somereni''. Works *Bird Life in Uganda *Notes on Birds of Uganda and East Africa * with Thomas Herbert Elliot Jackson, 1952 The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex: a tentative reclassification of the group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). ''Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London'' 103:257–284. *with Jackson, T.H.E., 1957 The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Supplement No. 1. ''An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrotropical Realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopian Zone or Ethiopian Region. Major ecological regions Most of the Afrotropic, with the exception of Africa's southern tip, has a tropical climate. A broad belt of deserts, including the Atlantic and Sahara deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Desert of the Arabian Peninsula, separate the Afrotropic from the Palearctic realm, which includes northern Africa and temperate Eurasia. Sahel and Sudan South of the Sahara, two belts of tropical grassland and savanna run east and west across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian Highlands. Immediately south of the Sahara lies the Sahel belt, a transitional zone of semi-arid short grassland and vachellia sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charaxes Virescens
''Charaxes virescens'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Shaba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Similar species ''Charaxes virescens'' is in the ''Charaxes eupale'' species group (clade). The clade members are: *'' Charaxes subornatus'' *'' Charaxes eupale'' *''Charaxes dilutus'' *'' Charaxes montis'' *'' Charaxes minor'' *''Charaxes schiltzei'' *'' Charaxes schultzei'' *''Charaxes virescens'' Bouyer et al., 2008 erected the genus ''Viridixes'' Bouyer & Vingerhoedt, 2008 to accommodate species belonging to the ''eupale'' species group. Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E.V., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. 2008: Les Charaxes du groupe eupale: description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae).'' Entomologia Africana'' Hors Série 3: 1–32. Realm Afrotropical realm References *Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. (2008): Les Charaxes du groupe ''eupale'' : description d’un nouvea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charaxes Schultzei
''Charaxes eupale'', the common green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. Biology ''eupale'' is the most common forest charaxes The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests. The larvae feed on '' Scutia myrtina'', ''Albizia gummifera'', ''Albizia zygia'', ''Albizia adianthifolia'' and '' Cathormion'' species. Notes on the biology of ''eupale'' are given by Larsen, T.B. (1991) The green colouration is produced by pigments as opposed to being produced structurally, which is common in most green butterflies. Description A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 ''Novitates Zoologicae'' Volume 7:510 et seq(for terms see ''Novitates Zoologicae'' Volume 5:545-601 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charaxes Schiltzei
''Charaxes schiltzei'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Similar species ''Charaxes subornatus'' is in the '' Charaxes eupale'' species group (clade). The clade members are: *'' Charaxes subornatus'' *'' Charaxes eupale'' *'' Charaxes dilutus'' *'' Charaxes montis'' *'' Charaxes minor'' *''Charaxes schiltzei'' *'' Charaxes schultzei'' *'' Charaxes virescens'' Bouyer et al., 2008 erected the genus ''Viridixes'' Bouyer & Vingerhoedt, 2008 to accommodate species belonging to the ''eupale'' species group. Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E.V., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. 2008: Les Charaxes du groupe eupale: description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae).'' Entomologia Africana'' Hors Série 3: 1–32. Realm Afrotropical realm References *Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. (2008): Les Charaxes du groupe ''eupale'' : d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charaxes Eupale
''Charaxes eupale'', the common green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. Biology ''eupale'' is the most common forest charaxes The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests. The larvae feed on ''Scutia myrtina'', ''Albizia gummifera'', ''Albizia zygia'', ''Albizia adianthifolia'' and ''Cathormion'' species. Notes on the biology of ''eupale'' are given by Larsen, T.B. (1991) The green colouration is produced by pigments as opposed to being produced structurally, which is common in most green butterflies. Description A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 ''Novitates Zoologicae'' Volume 7:510 et seq(for terms see ''Novitates Zoologicae'' Volume 5:545-601 Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charaxes Subornatus
''Charaxes subornatus'', the ornate green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya. The habitat consists of evergreen forests. The larvae feed on ''Albizia'' - '' A. brownei'', '' A. gummifera'' and '' A. zygia''. Subspecies *''Charaxes subornatus subornatus'' (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern and western Democratic Republic of the Congo) *''Charaxes subornatus couilloudi'' Plantrou, 1976 (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria) *''Charaxes subornatus minor'' Joicey & Talbot, 1921 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Kenya) is considered by some authorities to be a full species Similar species ''Charaxes subornatus'' is in the ''Charaxes eupale'' species group (clade). The clade members are: *''Charaxes subornatus'' *'' Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Van Someren
Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren (1886 in Melbourne – 24 July 1976) was a zoologist and entomologist. Van Someren was born in Australia. He attended George Watson's College and studied zoology at University of Edinburgh. He was also a dentist. Van Someren moved to Kenya in 1912 and lived in Nairobi. He was in the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society and became Honorary Secretary. In 1930 he became Curator of the Coryndon Museum. Van Someren named a number of bird and butterfly species. Species named after him include the fish '' Labeobarbus somereni''. Works *Bird Life in Uganda *Notes on Birds of Uganda and East Africa * with Thomas Herbert Elliot Jackson, 1952 The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex: a tentative reclassification of the group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). ''Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London'' 103:257–284. *with Jackson, T.H.E., 1957 The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Supplement No. 1. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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