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Ideopsis Gaura
''Ideopsis gaura'', the smaller wood nymph, is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is found in Southeast Asia. Larvae feed on '' Melodinus'' especially '' M. laevigatus''. Adults are mimicked by '' Graphium delessertii'' and '' Cyclosia pieridoides''. Subspecies Listed alphabetically: at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *''I. g. anapina'' Semper, 1892 *''I. g. anapis'' (C. & R. Felder, 1861) *''I. g. bracara'' Fruhstofer, 1910 *''I. g. canlaonii'' Jumalon, 1971 *''I. g. costalis'' (Moore, 1883) *''I. g. daos'' (Boisduval, |
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and natural history, naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company Museum in London. Early life Horsfield was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the grandson of Timothy Horsfield, Sr. (1708-1773), who was born in Liverpool and emigrated to New York in 1725. In New York, his brother Isaac and he ran a butcher shop. The Horsfield family converted from the Church of England to Moravianism, a Protestant denomination with a strong emphasis on education. In 1748, Horsfield, Sr. applied for permission to reside in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He, however, moved only his family to Bethlehem and joined them the next year. When Northampton County was created in 1752, he was made a justice of peace by Governor Hamilton. In 1763 he was commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called brush-footed butterflies or four-footed butterflies, because they are known to stand on only four legs while the other two are curled up; in some species, these forelegs have a brush-like set of hairs, which gives this family its other common name. Many species are brightly coloured and include popular species such as the emperors, monarch butterfly, admirals, tortoiseshells, and fritillaries. However, the under wings are, in contrast, often dull and in some species look remarkably like dead leaves, or are much paler, producing a cryptic effect that helps the butterflies blend into their surroundings. Nomenclature Rafinesque introduced ... [...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] |
Danainae
Danainae is a subfamily of the family Nymphalidae, the brush-footed butterflies. It includes the Daniadae, or milkweed butterflies, who lay their eggs on various milkweeds on which their larvae (caterpillars) feed, as well as the clearwing butterflies (Ithomiini), and the tellervini. Some 300 species of Danainae exist worldwide. Most of the Danaini are found in tropical Asia and Africa, while the Ithomiini are diverse in the Neotropics. Tellervini are restricted to Australia and the Oriental region. Four species are found in North America: the monarch butterfly (''Danaus plexippus''), the queen (''Danaus gilippus''), the tropical milkweed butterfly (''Lycorea cleobaea''), and the soldier butterfly (or "tropic queen", ''Danaus eresimus''). Of these, the monarch is by far the most famous, being one of the most recognizable butterflies in the Americas. Taxonomy Milkweed butterflies are now classified as the subfamily Danainae within the family Nymphalidae; however, the previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and north-west of mainland Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of Bengal, to the east by Oceania and the Pacific Ocean, and to the south by Australia (continent), Australia and the Indian Ocean. Apart from the British Indian Ocean Territory and two out of atolls of Maldives, 26 atolls of Maldives in South Asia, Maritime Southeast Asia is the only other subregion of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere. Mainland Southeast Asia is completely in the Northern Hemisphere. East Timor and the southern portion of Indonesia are the only parts that are south of the Equator. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodinus
''Melodinus'' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to Indomalaya, Meganesia and various islands in the western Pacific. A type of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids called melodinines can be isolated from ''Melodinus'' plants. Species Accepted species include: # '' Melodinus acutiflorus'' F. Muell. - Papua New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales # '' Melodinus aeneus'' Baill. - New Caledonia # '' Melodinus angustifolius'' Hayata - Taiwan, N Vietnam # ''Melodinus australis'' (F. Muell.) Pierre - New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu # '' Melodinus axillaris'' W. T. Wang - Yunnan # '' Melodinus balansae'' Baill. - New Caledonia # '' Melodinus baueri'' Endl. - E Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island # '' Melodinus cochinchinensis'' (Lour.) Merr. - Indochina, W Malaysia, E Himalayas (Assam, Bhutan, Bangladesh, etc.), Yunnan # ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodinus Laevigatus
''Melodinus'' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to Indomalaya, Meganesia and various islands in the western Pacific. A type of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids called melodinines can be isolated from ''Melodinus'' plants. Species Accepted species include: # '' Melodinus acutiflorus'' F. Muell. - Papua New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales # '' Melodinus aeneus'' Baill. - New Caledonia # '' Melodinus angustifolius'' Hayata - Taiwan, N Vietnam # ''Melodinus australis'' (F. Muell.) Pierre - New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu # '' Melodinus axillaris'' W. T. Wang - Yunnan # '' Melodinus balansae'' Baill. - New Caledonia # '' Melodinus baueri'' Endl. - E Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island # '' Melodinus cochinchinensis'' (Lour.) Merr. - Indochina, W Malaysia, E Himalayas (Assam, Bhutan, Bangladesh, etc.), Yunnan # ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimicry
In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve between different species, or between individuals of the same species. Often, mimicry functions to protect a species from predators, making it an anti-predator adaptation. Mimicry evolves if a receiver (such as a predator) perceives the similarity between a mimic (the organism that has a resemblance) and a model (the organism it resembles) and as a result changes its behaviour in a way that provides a selective advantage to the mimic. The resemblances that evolve in mimicry can be visual, acoustic, chemical, tactile, or electric, or combinations of these sensory modalities. Mimicry may be to the advantage of both organisms that share a resemblance, in which case it is a form of mutualism; or mimicry can be to the detriment of one, making it parasitic or competitive. The evolutionary convergence between groups is driven by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphium Delessertii
''Graphium delessertii'', the Malayan zebra, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Southeast Asia. The rare female resembles ''Ideopsis gaura''. Despite the rarity of females ''Graphium delessertii'' is a common species, although threatened by deforestation in Java. File:Graphium delessertii dan Graphium sarpedon luctatius.jpg, Graphium delessertii with Graphium sarpedon ''Graphium sarpedon'', the common bluebottle or blue triangle in Australia, is a species of swallowtail butterfly that is found in South and Southeast Asia, as well as eastern Australia. There are approximately sixteen subspecies with diffe ... Subspecies *''Graphium delessertii delessertii'' (Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Bangka, Natuna, Borneo) *''Graphium delessertii hyalinus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1901) (Nias) *''Graphium delessertii palawanus'' (Staudinger, 1889) (Philippines: Palawan, Balabac) References *Page, M.G.P & Treadaway, C.G. 2003 ''Schmetterlinge der E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclosia Pieridoides
''Cyclosia pieridoides'' is a moth in the family Zygaenidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found in Asia. Members of the nominate subspecies mimic members of the genus ''Idea'' and ''Ideopsis gaura''. Members of the subspecies ''C. pieridoides binghami'' mimic members of the genus ''Delias''. Subspecies *''Cyclosia pieridoides bangkana'' Hering, 1922 ( Bangka) *''Cyclosia pieridoides belitungensis'' Kishida&Endo, 1999 (Belitung) *''Cyclosia pieridoides binghami'' Butler, 1882 (Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...) *''Cyclosia pieridoides glauca'' Walker, 1856 (Sumatra, Mentawai) *''Cyclosia pieridoides hestinoides'' Walker, 1862 (Borneo) *''Cyclosia pieridoides labuana'' Hering, 1922 ( Labuan) *''Cyclosia pieridoides pieriodes'' (Borneo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ideopsis
''Ideopsis'' is a genus of nymphalid butterflies in the subfamily Danainae found in South-east Asia. Species Listed alphabetically: *''Ideopsis gaura'' (Horsfield, 829 – smaller wood nymph *''Ideopsis hewitsonii'' Kirsch, 1877 – Hewitson's small tree-nymph *''Ideopsis klassika'' Martin, 1909 – Seram small tree-nymph *''Ideopsis juventa'' (Cramer, 777 – wood nymph, gray or grey glassy tiger *''Ideopsis oberthurii'' (Doherty, 1891) *''Ideopsis similis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – Ceylon blue glassy tiger *''Ideopsis vitrea'' (Blanchard, 1853) – Blanchard's wood nymph Wisdom of Wildlife *'' |
Butterflies Of Indochina
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 flie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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