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Cotton Stainer
Pyrrhocoridae is a family of insects with more than 300 species world-wide. Many are red coloured and are known as red bugs and some species are called cotton stainers because their feeding activities leave an indelible yellow-brownish stain on cotton crops. A common species in parts of Europe is the firebug, and its genus name ''Pyrrhocoris'' and the family name are derived from the Greek roots for fire "pyrrho-" and bug "coris". Members of this family are often confused with, but can be quickly separated from, Lygaeidae by the lack of ocelli (simple eyes) on the top of the head. Description The membrane of the forewing has one or two cells from which about 7-8 branching veins emerge that may have branches that fuse together ( anastomose) while the main veins reach the margins of the wing. They have three tarsal segments. They can be very difficult to separate from some members of the family Largidae, which also share some of these characters and belong to the same super family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrrhocoris Apterus
The firebug, ''Pyrrhocoris apterus'', is a common insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae. Easily recognizable due to its striking red and black coloration, it may be confused with the similarly coloured though unrelated ''Corizus hyoscyami'' (cinnamon bug or squash bug). ''Pyrrhocoris apterus'' is distributed throughout the Palaearctic from the Atlantic coast of Europe to northwest China. It has also been reported from the United States, Central America, and India, and is also found in Australia. It has been reported as recently expanding its distribution northwards into mainland United Kingdom and eastward on to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. They are frequently observed to form aggregations, especially as immature forms, containing from tens to perhaps a hundred individuals. Reproduction Firebugs generally mate in April and May. Their diet consists primarily of seeds from lime trees and mallows ( see below). They can often be found in groups near the base of lime tree tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raxa Nishidai
''Raxa'' is a genus of true bugs in the family Pyrrhocoridae Pyrrhocoridae is a family of insects with more than 300 species world-wide. Many are red coloured and are known as red bugs and some species are called cotton stainers because their feeding activities leave an indelible yellow-brownish stain on c .... Unlike most pyrrhocorids, members of this genus are predatory, rather than herbivorous. References Pyrrhocoridae Pentatomomorpha genera {{Heteroptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antilochus (genus)
''Antilochus'' is an Old World genus of true bugs in the family Pyrrhocoridae. The genus currently contains about 25 species, occurring in tropical Africa including Madagascar, South and Southeast Asia, the Malay Archipelago, and New Guinea. ''Antilochus'' are brightly coloured, usually red and black, and easily differentiated from other pyrrhocorids by the head being transversely depressed behind the eyes. They are often confused with bugs in the family Lygaeidae, but can be distinguished by the lack of ocelli A simple eye (sometimes called a pigment pit) refers to a form of eye or an optical arrangement composed of a single lens and without an elaborate retina such as occurs in most vertebrates. In this sense "simple eye" is distinct from a multi-l ... on the head. Unlike most pyrrhocorids, ''Antilochus'' species are predatory, rather than herbivorous. References Pentatomomorpha genera Pyrrhocoridae {{Pentatomomorpha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeschines (genus)
Aeschines (; Greek: , ''Aischínēs''; 389314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators. Biography Although it is known he was born in Athens, the records regarding his parentage and early life are conflicting; but it seems probable that his parents, though poor, were respectable. Aeschines' father was Atrometus, an elementary school teacher of letters. His mother Glaukothea assisted in the religious rites of initiation for the poor. After assisting his father in his school, he tried his hand at acting with indifferent success, served with distinction in the army, and held several clerkships, amongst them the office of clerk to the '' Boule.'' This references: * Rudolf Hirzel, ''Der Dialog''. i. 129–140 *Theodor Gomperz, ''Greek Thinkers'', vol. iii. p. 342 (Eng. trans. G. G. Berry, London, 1905) Among the campaigns that Aeschines participated in were Phlius in the Peloponnese (368 BC), Battle of Mantinea (362 BC), and Phokion's campaign in Euboea (349 BC). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abulfeda (genus)
Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Shāhanshāh b. Ayyūb b. Shādī b. Marwān ( ar, إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود بن محمد بن عمر بن شاهنشاه بن أيوب بن شادي بن مروان), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda ( ar, أبو الفداء; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama. The crater Abulfeda on the Moon is named after him. Life Abu'l-Fida was born in Damascus, where his father Malik ul-Afdal, brother of Emir Al-Mansur Muhammad II of Hama, had fled from the Mongols. Abu'l-Fida was an Ayyubid prince, thus of Kurdish origin. In his boyhood he devoted himself to the study of the Qur'an and the sciences, but from his twelfth year onward, he was almost constantly engaged in military expeditions, chiefly against the crusaders. In 1285 he was present at the attack on a stronghold of the Knights of St. John, and took part in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dindymus Rubiginosus
''Dindymus'' is Old World genus of true bugs in the family Pyrrhocoridae. They are often confused with bugs in the family Lygaeidae, but can be distinguished by the lack of ocelli on the head. Species ''BioLib'' lists: ;subgenus ''Cornidindymus'' Stehlík, 2005 # '' Dindymus abdominalis'' Distant, 1914 # '' Dindymus griseus'' Stehlík, 2006 # '' Dindymus straeleni'' Schouteden, 1933 ;subgenus ''Dindymus'' Stål, 1861 # '' Dindymus albicornis'' (Fabricius, 1803) # '' Dindymus albomarginatus'' Stehlík, 2007 # '' Dindymus brevis'' Blöte, 1931 # '' Dindymus chinensis'' Stehlík & Jindra, 2006 # '' Dindymus croesus'' Distant, 1914 # '' Dindymus decisus'' Walker, 1873 # '' Dindymus decolor'' Breddin, 1900 # '' Dindymus flavipennis'' Blöte, 1931 # '' Dindymus lanius'' Stål, 1863 # '' Dindymus medogensis'' S.L. Liu, 1981 # '' Dindymus punctithorax'' Stehlík, 2006 # '' Dindymus pyrochrous'' (Boisduval, 1835) # '' Dindymus rubiginosus'' (Fabricius, 1787) # '' Dindymus sanguineus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dysdercus Cingulatus, Mating
''Dysdercus'' is a widespread genus of true bugs in the family Pyrrhocoridae; a number of species attacking cotton bolls may be called "cotton stainers". Description Species may be confused with bugs in the family Lygaeidae, but can be distinguished by the lack of ocelli on the head. They can be readily distinguished from most other genera of Pyrrhocoridae by the strong white markings at the junction of the head and thorax, and along the sides of the thorax, and often abdomen. Species ''BioLib'' lists the following: ; subgenus ''Dysdercus'' Guérin-Méneville, 1831 * ''Dysdercus andreae'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Dysdercus bimaculatus'' (Stål, 1854) * '' Dysdercus cardinalis'' Gerstäcker, 1873 * '' Dysdercus concinnus'' Stål, 1861 * '' Dysdercus fasciatus'' Signoret, 1861 - cotton stainer (Africa) * '' Dysdercus mimulus'' Hussey, 1929 * ''Dysdercus mimus'' (Say, 1832) * '' Dysdercus nigrofasciatus'' Stål, 1855 * ''Dysdercus obliquus'' (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1843) * ''Dysdercus o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dysdercus Suturellus
''Dysdercus suturellus'' is a species of Hemiptera, true bug in the family Pyrrhocoridae, commonly known as a cotton stainer. The adult insect is slender, about long, with a red thorax and dark brown wings marked with a yellow cross. It is native to the southeast of the United States, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. It is a Pest (organism), pest of cotton crops and other plants, the adults and older nymphs feeding on the emerging bolls and the ripening seeds. Description The adult ''Dysdercus suturellus'' is about long. It has a red head with black antennae, the first segment of which are longer than the second. The thorax has a white pronotal collar and is otherwise mostly red. The sternites of the abdomen are red, bordered with white posteriorly. The Corium (entomology), corium, the leathery base of the wings, is dark brown margined with cream, giving the insect a large cross-shaped pattern. Distribution and hosts ''Dysdercus suturellus'' is native to the southeasternmost part of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pest (animal)
A pest is any animal or plant harmful to humans or human concerns. The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes. Humans have modified the environment for their own purposes and are intolerant of other creatures occupying the same space when their activities impact adversely on human objectives. Thus, an elephant is unobjectionable in its natural habitat but a pest when it tramples crops. Some animals are disliked because they bite or sting; snakes, wasps, ants, bed bugs, fleas and ticks belong in this category. Others enter the home; these include houseflies, which land on and contaminate food, beetles, which tunnel into the woodwork, and other animals that scuttle about on the floor at night, like cockroaches, which are often associated with unsanitary conditions. Agricultural and horticultural crops are attacked by a wide variety of pests, the most important being insects, mites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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