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Cupido Lacturnus
''Cupido lacturnus'', the Indian Cupid, is a small butterfly found in the Australasian and Indomalayan realms that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Description Harry Tytler Major-General Sir Harry Christopher Tytler KCB CMG CIE DSO (26 September 1867 – 16 May 1939) was a British Indian Army officer who specialised in running lines of communication, and also an amateur naturalist.Biography, ''Who Was Who'' ... described ''C. l. assamica'' on 1915 as: File:Everes lacturnus syntala - Indian Cupid male (2).jpg, Upper side (male) File:Everes lacturnus syntala - Indian Cupid female (2).jpg, Upper side (female) File:Everes lacturnus syntala - Indian Cupid male (1).jpg, Under side (male) File:Everes lacturnus syntala - Indian Cupid female (1).jpg, Under side (female) File:Indian cupid 3.jpg, Mating pair Subspecies The subspecies of ''Cupido lacturnus'' are: * ''Cupido lacturnus syntala'' Cantlie, 1963 – Gujarat southwards to Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Godart
Jean-Baptiste Godart (25 November 1775 – 27 July 1825) was a French entomologist. Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) with writing the article on these insects in the ''Encyclopédie Méthodique The ''Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières'' ("Methodical Encyclopedia by Order of Subject Matter") was published between 1782 and 1832 by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, his son-in-law Henri Agasse, and the latter's ...''. Godart then undertook his ''Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères ou papillons de France'' publication starting in 1821 and not completed until 1842. In addition to the fauna of France, it also covered exotic diurnal species. Sources IJean Lhoste (1987), ''Les Entomologiste français'', 1750–1950, INRA-OPIE. External linksWorks by Jean-Baptiste Godart at BHL {{DEFAULTSORT:Godart, Jean-Baptiste 1775 births 1825 deaths French lepidopteri ... [...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] |
Australasian Realm
The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua), and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccan islands (the Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku), and the islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timor, often known as the Lesser Sundas. The Australasian realm also includes several Pacific island groups, including the Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and New Caledonia. New Zealand and its surrounding islands are a distinctive sub-region of the Australasian realm. The rest of Indonesia is part of the Indomalayan realm. In the classification scheme developed by Miklos Udvardy, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and New Zealand are placed in the Oceania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indomalayan Realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia. Indomalaya also includes the Philippines, lowland Taiwan, and Japan's Ryukyu Islands. Most of Indomalaya was originally covered by forest, and includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, with tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests predominant in much of India and parts of Southeast Asia. The tropical forests of Indomalaya are highly variable and diverse, with economically important trees, especially in the families Dipterocarpaceae and Fabaceae. Major ecol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues (Polyommatinae), the coppers (Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks (Theclinae), and the harvesters (Miletinae). Description, food, and life cycle Adults are small, under 5 cm usually, and brightly coloured, sometimes with a metallic gloss. Larvae are often flattened rather than cylindrical, with glands that may produce secretions that attract and subdue ants. Their cuticles tend to be thickened. Some larvae are capable of producing vibrations and low sounds that are transmitted through the substrates they inhabit. They use these sounds to communicate with ants.Pierce, N. E.; Braby, M. F.; Heath, A.; Lohman, D. J.; Mathew, J.; Rand, D. B. & Travassos, M. A. (2002)"The eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Tytler
Major-General Sir Harry Christopher Tytler KCB CMG CIE DSO (26 September 1867 – 16 May 1939) was a British Indian Army officer who specialised in running lines of communication, and also an amateur naturalist.Biography, ''Who Was Who'' Tytler was born in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, the son of Colonel Robert Christopher Tytler, a retired officer of the East India Company Army and his wife Harriet. He was educated at Mr Frank Townsend's School, Clifton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Leaving as Queen's (India) Cadet, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment in January 1886 and in November 1887 transferred to the Indian Army and joined the 17th Infantry. He was mentioned in despatches for his service in the Sikkim Expedition in 1888, and in the Lushai Expedition of 1890–1891 he commanded the small force which relieved Changsil. He was promoted captain in July 1897 and served in the Waziristan Expedition of 1901–1902. He was pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilades Parrhasius
''Chilades parrhasius'', the small Cupid, is a small butterfly that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. It is found in Nepal,southern Turan, southern Ghissar, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and southern, central and north-west India. Description File:Chilades parrhasius parrhasius larva (3).jpg, larva File:Chilades parrhasius parrhasius pupa.jpg, pupa File:Chilades parrhasius parrhasius - Small Cupid 7.jpg, upper side (male) File:Chilades parrhasius parrhasius - Small Cupid FEMALE 5.jpg, upper side (female) Subspecies *''Chilades parrhasius parrhasius'' (India) *''Chilades parrhasius nila'' Evans, 1925 (Sri Lanka) *''Chilades parrhasius minuta'' (Evans, 1932) (Pakistan) See also *List of butterflies of India *List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae) This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Lycaenidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India. This list is based on Evans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupido (butterfly)
''Cupido'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The subgenus ''Everes'' (Hübner, 819 is included here. Species * '' Cupido alaina'' (Staudinger, 1887) Alai, Darvaz, West Pamirs * ''Cupido alcetas'' – Provençal short-tailed blue * '' Cupido amyntula'' – western tailed-blue * '' Cupido argiades'' – short-tailed blue * '' Cupido buddhista'' (Alphéraky, 1881) – Buddhist blue – Central Asia * '' Cupido carswelli'' Stempffer, 1927 – Carswell's little blue – mountains of southeast Spain * ''Cupido comyntas'' – eastern tailed-blue * '' Cupido decolor'' (Staudinger, 1886) * ''Cupido decolorata'' (Staudinger, 1886) – eastern short-tailed blue – Balkans and eastern Europe * '' Cupido gisela'' (Püngeler, 1901) – Gisela blue – Tibet * '' Cupido lacturnus'' – tailed Cupid * '' Cupido lorquinii'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 851 – Lorquin's blue – North Africa and Spain * ''Cupido minimus'' – small blue – Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia and Mongolia * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies Of Singapore
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large 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 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 out, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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