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List Of Fauna Of Michigan
This is a list of fauna found in the U.S. state of Michigan, including those of wider distribution. See also List of threatened fauna of Michigan. Invertebrates Cnidaria * ''Craspedacusta sowerbyi'' Arthropods Arachnids * European garden spider *'' Misumenops celer'' Crustaceans * '' Armadillidium vulgare'' (common pillbug) * '' Cambarus diogenes'' (chimney crayfish) * ''Cambarus robustus'' (big water crayfish) * '' Creaserinus fodiens'' (digger crayfish) * '' Faxonius immunis'' (calico crayfish) * '' Faxonius propinquus'' (northern clearwater crayfish) * ''Faxonius rusticus'' ( rusty crayfish) * '' Faxonius virilis'' (northern crayfish) * '' Procambarus acutus acutus'' (white river crawfish) Insects =Coleoptera= * '' Brychius hungerfordi'' * ''Cicindela sexguttata'' * ''Colorado potato beetle'' * '' Desmocerus palliatus'' * ''Harmonia axyridis'' * '' Megacyllene robiniae'' * '' Neandra brunnea'' * '' Rhyssomatus lineaticollis'' =Diptera= *''Chironomus plumosus'' =Dictyopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River.''i.e.'', including water that is part of state territory. Georgia is the largest state by land area alone east of the Mississippi and Michigan the second-largest. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word (), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan consists of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula resembles the shape of a mitten, and comprises a majority of the state's land area. The Upper Peninsula (often called "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmocerus Palliatus
The elderberry borer, ''Desmocerus palliatus'', is a species of Cerambycidae that occurs in Eastern North America. Description The adult is 17 to 26 mm, mostly a shimmering dark blue, and the bases of the elytra are yellow to yellow-red. It is likely a mimic of beetles in the family Lycidae, as is the moth ''Lycomorpha pholus'' found in the same area. Range and habitat It ranges from Oklahoma, central North America, to parts of the southern Appalachian mountains The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, (french: Appalaches), are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They .... They tend to be more abundant in the northern part of its range. They can be seen in swampy areas and near streams that support their host plant. File:Desmocerus Palliatus.jpg, Live specimen of elderberry borer File:Elderberry_borer_couple.jpg, mating pair Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polistes Fuscatus
''Polistes fuscatus'', whose common name is the dark or northern paper wasp, is widely found in eastern North America, from southern Canada through the southern United States. It often nests around human development. However, it greatly prefers areas in which wood is readily available for use as nest material, therefore they are also found near and in woodlands and savannas.Evans, H. (1963). ''Wasp Farm.'' Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ''P. fuscatus'' is a social wasp that is part of a complex society based around a single dominant foundress along with other cofoundresses and a dominance hierarchy. Taxonomy and phylogeny ''P. fuscatus'' is a part of the order Hymenoptera, the suborder Apocrita, the family of Vespidae, and the subfamily Polistinae, the second-largest subfamily within the Vespidae, of which all are social wasps.Arevalo, Elisabeth, Yong Zhu, James Carpenter, and Joan Strassmann. (2004). The Phylogeny of the Social Wasp Subfamily Polistinae: Evidencefrom Microsate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polistes Exclamans
''Polistes exclamans'', the Guinea paper wasp, is a social wasp and is part of the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera. It is found throughout the United States, Mexico, the Bahamas, Jamaica and parts of Canada. Due to solitary nest founding by queens, ''P. exclamans'' has extended its range in the past few decades and now covers the eastern half of the United States, as well as part of the north. This expansion is typically attributed to changing global climate and temperatures. ''P. exclamans'' has three specific castes, including males, workers, and queens, but the dominance hierarchy is further distinguished by age. The older the wasp is, the higher it is in ranking within the colony. In most ''P. exclamans'' nests, there is one queen who lays all the eggs in the colony. The physiological similarities between the worker and queen castes have led to experiments attempting to distinguish the characteristics of these two castes and how they are determined, though males have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polistes Dominulus
The European paper wasp (''Polistes dominula'') is one of the most common and well-known species of social wasps in the genus '' Polistes''. Its diet is more diverse than those of most ''Polistes'' species—many genera of insects versus mainly caterpillars in other ''Polistes''—giving it superior survivability compared to other wasp species during a shortage of resources. The dominant females are the principal egg layers, while the subordinate females ("auxiliaries") or workers primarily forage and do not lay eggs. This hierarchy is not permanent, though; when the queen is removed from the nest, the second-most dominant female takes over the role of the previous queen. Dominance in females is determined by the severity of the scatteredness in the coloration of the clypeus (face), whereas dominance in males is shown by the variation of spots of their abdomens. ''P. dominula'' is common and cosmopolitan due to their exceptional survival features such as productive colony cycle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolichovespula Maculata
''Dolichovespula maculata'' is a species of wasp in the genus ''Dolichovespula'' and a member of the eusocial, cosmopolitan family Vespidae. It is known by many colloquial names, primarily bald-faced hornet, but also including bald-faced aerial yellowjacket, bald-faced wasp, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, blackjacket, white-tailed hornet, spruce wasp, and bull wasp. Technically a species of yellowjacket wasp, it is not one of the true hornets, which are in the genus ''Vespa''. Colonies contain 400 to 700 workers, the largest recorded colony size in its genus, ''Dolichovespula''. It builds a characteristic large hanging paper nest up to in length. Workers aggressively defend their nest by repeatedly stinging invaders. The bald-faced hornet is distributed throughout the United States and southern Canada, but is most common in the Southeastern United States. Males in this species are haploid and females are diploid. Worker females can, therefore, lay eggs that develop into male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Large Milkweed Bug
''Oncopeltus fasciatus'', known as the large milkweed bug, is a medium-sized hemipteran (true bug) of the family Lygaeidae.Attisano, A. (2013) Oosorption and migratory strategy of the milkweed bug,''Oncopeltus fasciatus. Animal Behaviour 86(3):651-657.'' It is distributed throughout North America, from Central America through Mexico and the Caribbean to southern areas in Canada. Costa Rica represents this insect's southern limit. It inhabits disturbed areas, roadsides, and open pastures. Due to this widespread geographic distribution, this insect exhibits varying life history trade-offs depending on the population location, including differences in wing length and other traits based on location. Identification Adults can range from 11 to 12 mm in length and have a red/orange and black X-shaped pattern on their wings underneath the triangle that is typical to hemipterans. This feature makes the bug easily seen, acting as an aposematic warning to predators of distastefulnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Stink Bug
The green stink bug or green soldier bug (''Chinavia hilaris'') is a stink bug of the family Pentatomidae. Taxonomy The species was previously placed in the genus ''Acrosternum'' but has been classified as in the genus ''Chinavia'' in the more recent literature (e.g., Schwertner and Grazia, 2006). However, the Entomological Society of America has not officially recognized this change despite this shift in scientific naming. Description The green stink bug's color is typically bright green, with narrow yellow, orange, or reddish edges. It is a large, shield-shaped bug with an elongate, oval form and a length between 13 and 18 mm. It can be differentiated from the species ''Nezara viridula'' by its black outermost three Antenna (biology), antennal segments. Its anterolateral (= in front and away from the middle) Prothorax, pronotal margin is rather straight and not strongly arced such as in ''Chinavia pensylvanica''. Both adults and nymph (biology), nymphs have large stin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelphocoris Lineolatus
''Adelphocoris lineolatus'', is commonly known as the Lucerne bug or the alfalfa plant bug, and belongs to the family Miridae. It is an agricultural pest causing vast amounts of damage to numerous crops, but primarily to alfalfa crops around the globe. Synonyms * ''Adelphocoris binotata'' Goeze * ''Adelphocoris chenopodii'' Fallen, 1807 * ''Adelphocoris italica'' Tamanini, 1961 * ''Adelphocoris lineolatus baltrumensis'' Schumacher, 1911 * ''Adelphocoris lineolatus binotatus'' Wagner, 1960 * ''Adelphocoris lineolatus bisbipunctata'' Tamanini, 1982 * ''Calocoris chenopodii'' * ''Calocoris chenopodii implagiata'' * ''Calocoris chenopodii lineolatus'' * ''Calocoris lineolatus bisbipunctatus'' Reuter, 1891 Geographical distribution ''Adelphocoris lineolatus'' are an Old World Species native to Western Europe, North Africa, Northern Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In 1917, this species had been introduced into Canada and the United States. In the Nearctic realm, these insects ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Mantis
The Chinese mantis (''Tenodera sinensis'') is a species of mantis native to Asia and the nearby islands. In 1896 this species was accidentally introduced by a nursery tender at Mt. Airy near Philadelphia, United States. ''Tenodera sinensis'' often is erroneously referred to as ''Tenodera aridifolia sinensis'' because it was at first described as a subspecies of '' Tenodera aridifolia'', but ''Tenodera sinensis'' is now established as a full species. ''Tenodera sinensis'' feeds primarily on other insects, though adult females sometimes catch small vertebrates. For example, they have been observed feeding on hornets, spiders, grasshoppers, katydids, small reptiles, amphibians, and even hummingbirds. Like most mantids, they are known to be cannibalistic. One study found that cannibalism occurs in up to 50% of matings. These mantids have been observed eating the larvae of monarch butterflies, while discarding the entrails. Description The Chinese mantis is a long, slender, brow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chironomus Plumosus
''Chironomus plumosus'', also known as the buzzer midge, is a species of Chironomidae, nonbiting midge (Chironomidae) that occurs throughout areas in the Northern Hemisphere. Description Adult Adults are pale green with brown legs and grow to . Males have feathery antenna (biology), antennae, while females' antennae are sleek. A dark brown band is seen at the end of each abdominal segment. Adults of the sibling species ''C. muratensis'' and ''C. nudiventris'' cannot be distinguished from ''C. plumosus'' based on morphological characters. Immature The larvae are called bloodworms because some larvae are bright red, but they can also be found in brown and almost black. When the larva pupate, they drift towards the surface, making them vulnerable to many types of fish. Other common predators include the Notonecta glauca, common backswimmer (''Notonecta glauca''), Gerris lacustris, common pondskater (''Gerris lacustris''), common toad (''Bufo bufo''), lesser water boatman (''Corixa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhyssomatus Lineaticollis
''Rhyssomatus lineaticollis'', also known by its common name milkweed stem weevil is a species of weevil whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, ''Asclepias syriaca''. It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed species ''Asclepias meadii''.Betz, R. F. (1989)Ecology of Mead's milkweed (''Asclepias meadii'') Torrey.in Proceedings of the 11th North American Prairie Conference; 1989; University of Nebraska, Lincoln. p 187-191. References Molytinae Beetles of North America Beetles described in 1824 {{Molytinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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