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Eurycantha Latro
''Eurycantha'' is a genus of Australasian stick insects: typical of the tribe Eurycanthini. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1835. Species The '' Phasmida Species File'' lists: * ''Eurycantha calcarata'' Lucas, 1869 - Giant Spiny Stick Insect (synonym ''E. sifia'' Kirby, 1904) * ''Eurycantha coriacea'' (Redtenbacher, 1908) * ''Eurycantha horrida'' Boisduval, 1835 * ''Eurycantha immunis'' Redtenbacher, 1908 * ''Eurycantha insularis ''Eurycantha'' is a genus of Australasian stick insects: typical of the tribe Eurycanthini. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1835. Species The '' Phasmida Species File'' lists: * ''Eurycantha calcarata'' Lucas, 1869 - Giant Spiny ...'' Lucas, 1869 * '' Eurycantha latro'' Redtenbacher, 1908 * '' Eurycantha maluensis'' Günther, 1929 * '' Eurycantha micracantha'' (Montrouzier, 1855) * '' Eurycantha portentosa'' Kirby, 1904 * '' Eurycantha rosenbergii'' Kaup, 1871 References External links * {{Taxonbar, from=Q1378420 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook ''Flores française'' in 1828. Early in his career, he was interested in Coleoptera and allied himself with both Jean Théodore Lacordaire and Pierre André Latreille. He was the curator of the Pierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many species of beetles, as well as butterflies and moths, resulting from the voyages of the ''Astrolabe'', the expedition ship of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse and the '' Coquille'', that of Louis Isidore Duperrey. He left Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |