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Ellychnia Affinis
''Ellychnia'' is a genus of fireflies. First defined by Émile Blanchard in 1845, the genus contains 24 species, which are widespread in the United States. Adults are black, with rose-colored marks on the pronotum; sexual dimorphism is unknown. These beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...s are active during the day, and have no light-producing organs as adults; instead, they attract mates using chemical signals. The larvae of ''Ellychnia'' fireflies live in rotting logs. Species list *'' E. affinis'' *'' E. albilatera'' *'' E. atra'' *'' E. aurora'' *'' E. autumnalis'' *'' E. bivulneris'' *'' E. californica'' *'' E. cordovae'' *'' E. corrusca'' *'' E. facula'' *'' E. flavicollis'' *'' E. fumigata'' *'' E. granulicollis'' *'' E. greeni'' *'' E. hatchi'' *'' E. l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellychnia Corrusca
''Ellychnia corrusca'', or winter firefly, is a species of firefly in the genus Ellychnia. It is a lantern-less diurnal beetle common throughout the United States and Canada. They favor ''Quercus'', ''Carya'', and ''Liriodendron tulipifera ''Liriodendron tulipifera''—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus ''Liriodendron'' (the other ...''. The mating season is approximately six weeks in length, occurring early April through mid-May. The mating process consists of the Ellychnia adults crawling around tree trunks looking for mates in the early spring. Males first contact females with their antennae before they mount females dorsally to initiate copulation. Ming, & Lewis, S. M. (2010). Mate Recognition and Sex Differences in Cuticular Hydrocarbons of the Diurnal Firefly Ellychnia corrusca (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Annals of the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellychnia Lunicollis
''Ellychnia'' is a genus of fireflies. First defined by Émile Blanchard in 1845, the genus contains 24 species, which are widespread in the United States. Adults are black, with rose-colored marks on the pronotum; sexual dimorphism is unknown. These beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...s are active during the day, and have no light-producing organs as adults; instead, they attract mates using chemical signals. The larvae of ''Ellychnia'' fireflies live in rotting logs. Species list *'' E. affinis'' *'' E. albilatera'' *'' E. atra'' *'' E. aurora'' *'' E. autumnalis'' *'' E. bivulneris'' *'' E. californica'' *'' E. cordovae'' *'' E. corrusca'' *'' E. facula'' *'' E. flavicollis'' *'' E. fumigata'' *'' E. granulicollis'' *'' E. greeni'' *'' E. hatchi'' *'' E. l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species. ITIS was originally formed in 1996 as an interagency group within the US federal government, involving several US federal agencies, and has now become an international body, with Canadian and Mexican government agencies participating. The database draws from a large community of taxonomic experts. Primary content staff are housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and IT services are provided by a US Geological Survey facility in Denver. The primary focus of ITIS is North American species, but many biological groups exist worldwide and ITIS collaborates with other agencies to increase its global coverage. Reference database ITIS provides an automated reference database of scientific and common names for species. As of May 2016, it contains over 839,000 scientific names, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly hard e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the sexes of the same animal and/or plant species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most animals and some plants. Differences may include secondary sex characteristics, size, weight, colour, markings, or behavioural or cognitive traits. These differences may be subtle or exaggerated and may be subjected to sexual selection and natural selection. The opposite of dimorphism is ''monomorphism'', which is when both biological sexes are phenotypically indistinguishable from each other. Overview Ornamentation and coloration Common and easily identified types of dimorphism consist of ornamentation and coloration, though not always apparent. A difference in coloration of sexes within a given species is called sexual dichromatism, which is commonly seen in many species of birds and reptiles. Sexual selection leads to the exaggerated dim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pronotum
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on each side. The prothorax never bears wings in extant insects (except in some cases of atavism), though some fossil groups possessed wing-like projections. All adult insects possess legs on the prothorax, though in a few groups (e.g., the butterfly family Nymphalidae) the forelegs are greatly reduced. In many groups of insects, the pronotum is reduced in size, but in a few it is hypertrophied, such as in all beetles (Coleoptera). In most treehoppers (family Membracidae, order Hemiptera), the pronotum is expanded into often fantastic shapes that enhance their camouflage or mimicry. Similarly, in the Tetrigidae, the pronotum is extended backward to cover the flight wings, supplanting the function of the tegmina. See also *Glossary of entomolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefly
The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production of light, mainly during twilight, to attract mates. Light production in the Lampyridae is thought to have originated as an honest warning signal that the larvae were distasteful; this was co-opted in evolution as a mating signal in the adults. In a further development, female fireflies of the genus ''Photuris'' mimic the flash pattern of ''Photinus'' species to trap their males as prey. Fireflies are found in temperate and tropical climates. Many live in marshes or in wet, wooded areas where their larvae have abundant sources of food. While all known fireflies glow as larvae, only some species produce light in their adult stage, and the location of the light organ varies among species and between sexes of the same species. Fireflies ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellychnia Variegata
''Ellychnia'' is a genus of fireflies. First defined by Émile Blanchard in 1845, the genus contains 24 species, which are widespread in the United States. Adults are black, with rose-colored marks on the pronotum; sexual dimorphism is unknown. These beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...s are active during the day, and have no light-producing organs as adults; instead, they attract mates using chemical signals. The larvae of ''Ellychnia'' fireflies live in rotting logs. Species list *'' E. affinis'' *'' E. albilatera'' *'' E. atra'' *'' E. aurora'' *'' E. autumnalis'' *'' E. bivulneris'' *'' E. californica'' *'' E. cordovae'' *'' E. corrusca'' *'' E. facula'' *'' E. flavicollis'' *'' E. fumigata'' *'' E. granulicollis'' *'' E. greeni'' *'' E. hatchi'' *'' E. l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellychnia Sanguinicollis
''Ellychnia'' is a genus of fireflies. First defined by Émile Blanchard in 1845, the genus contains 24 species, which are widespread in the United States. Adults are black, with rose-colored marks on the pronotum; sexual dimorphism is unknown. These beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...s are active during the day, and have no light-producing organs as adults; instead, they attract mates using chemical signals. The larvae of ''Ellychnia'' fireflies live in rotting logs. Species list *'' E. affinis'' *'' E. albilatera'' *'' E. atra'' *'' E. aurora'' *'' E. autumnalis'' *'' E. bivulneris'' *'' E. californica'' *'' E. cordovae'' *'' E. corrusca'' *'' E. facula'' *'' E. flavicollis'' *'' E. fumigata'' *'' E. granulicollis'' *'' E. greeni'' *'' E. hatchi'' *'' E. l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellychnia Salvini
''Ellychnia'' is a genus of fireflies. First defined by Émile Blanchard in 1845, the genus contains 24 species, which are widespread in the United States. Adults are black, with rose-colored marks on the pronotum; sexual dimorphism is unknown. These beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...s are active during the day, and have no light-producing organs as adults; instead, they attract mates using chemical signals. The larvae of ''Ellychnia'' fireflies live in rotting logs. Species list *'' E. affinis'' *'' E. albilatera'' *'' E. atra'' *'' E. aurora'' *'' E. autumnalis'' *'' E. bivulneris'' *'' E. californica'' *'' E. cordovae'' *'' E. corrusca'' *'' E. facula'' *'' E. flavicollis'' *'' E. fumigata'' *'' E. granulicollis'' *'' E. greeni'' *'' E. hatchi'' *'' E. l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
