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Microlynchia
''Microlynchia'' is a genus of biting flies in the family of louse flies, Hippoboscidae. There are four known species. All species are parasites of birds. ''Microlynchia'' differs from '' Pseudolynchia'' in the presence of minute ocelli and a differently shaped scutellum. Distribution Found throughout North and Central America, and parts of South America, Galápagos Islands. Systematics *Genus ''Microlynchia'' Lutz, 1915 :*Species group 'a' ::*'' Microlynchia crypturelli'' Bequaert, 1938 ::*'' Microlynchia furtiva'' Bequaert, 1955 ::*'' Microlynchia pusilla'' (Speiser, 1902) :*Species group 'b' ::*'' Microlynchia galapagoensis'' Bequaert Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". '' The Nautilus'' 96(2)page 35 Career ..., 1955 References Hippoboscidae Parasites of birds Parasitic flies Hippoboscoide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microlynchia Galapagoensis
''Microlynchia'' is a genus of biting flies in the family of louse flies, Hippoboscidae. There are four known species. All species are parasites of birds. ''Microlynchia'' differs from ''Pseudolynchia'' in the presence of minute ocelli and a differently shaped scutellum. Distribution Found throughout North and Central America, and parts of South America, Galápagos Islands. Systematics *Genus ''Microlynchia'' Lutz, 1915 :*Species group 'a' ::*'' Microlynchia crypturelli'' Bequaert, 1938 ::*'' Microlynchia furtiva'' Bequaert, 1955 ::*'' Microlynchia pusilla'' (Speiser, 1902) :*Species group 'b' ::*'' Microlynchia galapagoensis'' Bequaert Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". '' The Nautilus'' 96(2)page 35 Career ..., 1955 References Hippoboscidae Parasites of birds Parasitic flies Hippobosco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microlynchia Pusilla
''Microlynchia'' is a genus of biting flies in the family of louse flies, Hippoboscidae. There are four known species. All species are parasites of birds. ''Microlynchia'' differs from ''Pseudolynchia'' in the presence of minute ocelli and a differently shaped scutellum. Distribution Found throughout North and Central America, and parts of South America, Galápagos Islands. Systematics *Genus ''Microlynchia'' Lutz, 1915 :*Species group 'a' ::*'' Microlynchia crypturelli'' Bequaert, 1938 ::*'' Microlynchia furtiva'' Bequaert, 1955 ::*'' Microlynchia pusilla'' (Speiser, 1902) :*Species group 'b' ::*''Microlynchia galapagoensis'' Bequaert Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". '' The Nautilus'' 96(2)page 35 Career ..., 1955 References Hippoboscidae Parasites of birds Parasitic flies Hippoboscoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microlynchia Furtiva
''Microlynchia'' is a genus of biting flies in the family of louse flies, Hippoboscidae. There are four known species. All species are parasites of birds. ''Microlynchia'' differs from ''Pseudolynchia'' in the presence of minute ocelli and a differently shaped scutellum. Distribution Found throughout North and Central America, and parts of South America, Galápagos Islands. Systematics *Genus ''Microlynchia'' Lutz, 1915 :*Species group 'a' ::*'' Microlynchia crypturelli'' Bequaert, 1938 ::*'' Microlynchia furtiva'' Bequaert, 1955 ::*''Microlynchia pusilla'' (Speiser, 1902) :*Species group 'b' ::*''Microlynchia galapagoensis'' Bequaert Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". '' The Nautilus'' 96(2)page 35 Career ..., 1955 References Hippoboscidae Parasites of birds Parasitic flies Hippoboscoid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microlynchia Crypturelli
''Microlynchia'' is a genus of biting flies in the family of louse flies, Hippoboscidae. There are four known species. All species are parasites of birds. ''Microlynchia'' differs from ''Pseudolynchia'' in the presence of minute ocelli and a differently shaped scutellum. Distribution Found throughout North and Central America, and parts of South America, Galápagos Islands. Systematics *Genus ''Microlynchia'' Lutz, 1915 :*Species group 'a' ::*'' Microlynchia crypturelli'' Bequaert, 1938 ::*''Microlynchia furtiva'' Bequaert, 1955 ::*''Microlynchia pusilla'' (Speiser, 1902) :*Species group 'b' ::*''Microlynchia galapagoensis'' Bequaert Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". '' The Nautilus'' 96(2)page 35 Career ..., 1955 References Hippoboscidae Parasites of birds Parasitic flies Hippoboscoide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippoboscidae
__NOTOC__ Hippoboscidae, the louse flies or keds, are obligate parasites of mammals and birds. In this family, the winged species can fly at least reasonably well, though others with vestigial or no wings are flightless and highly apomorphic. As usual in their superfamily Hippoboscoidea, most of the larval development takes place within the mother's body, and pupation occurs almost immediately. The sheep ked, ''Melophagus ovinus'', is a wingless, reddish-brown fly that parasitizes sheep. The Neotropical deer ked, ''Lipoptena mazamae'', is a common ectoparasite of white-tailed deer (''Odocoileus virginianus'') in the southeastern United States. Both winged and wingless forms may be seen. A common winged species is ''Hippobosca equina'', called "the louse fly" among riders. Species in other genera are found on birds; for example, ''Ornithomya bequaerti'' has been collected from birds in Alaska. Two species of the Hippoboscidae – '' Ornithoica (Ornithoica) podargi'' and ''Ornit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornithomyinae
Ornithomyinae is a subfamily of the fly family Hippoboscidae. All are blood feeding parasites, for the most part on birds, though some have mammals as hosts. Systematics *Subfamily Ornithomyinae Bigot, 1853 :*Genus '' Allobosca'' Speiser, 1899 (1 species) :*Genus '' Austrolfersia'' Bequaert, 1953 (1 species) :*Genus '' Crataerina'' von Olfers, 1816 (8 species) :*Genus '' Icosta'' Speiser, 1905 (52 species) :*Genus '' Microlynchia'' Lutz, 1915 (4 species) :*Genus '' Myophthiria'' Rondani, 1875 (13 species) :*Genus '' Olfersia'' Leach Leach may refer to: * Leach (surname) * Leach, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community, United States * Leach, Tennessee, an unincorporated community, United States * Leach Highway, Western Australia * Leach orchid * Leach phenotype, a mutation in ..., 1817 (7 species) :*Genus '' Ornithoctona'' Speiser, 1902 (12 species) :*Genus '' Ornithoica'' Rondani, 1878 (24 species) :*Genus '' Ornithomya'' Latreille, 1802 (29 species) :*Genus '' Ornit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scutellum (insect)
The scutellum is the posterior portion of either the mesonotum or the metanotum of an insect thorax; however, it is used almost exclusively in the former context, as the metanotum is rather reduced in most insect groups. In the Hemiptera, and some Coleoptera, the scutellum is a small triangular plate behind the pronotum and between the forewing bases. In Diptera and Hymenoptera the scutellum is nearly always distinct, but much smaller than (and immediately posterior to) the mesoscutum. File:Heteroptera morphology-d.svg, 26 = Heteroptera scutellum File:Housefly anatomy-key.svg, 6 = Diptera scutellum File:Coléoptère schématique.jpg, 9 = Coleoptera scutellum File:Scheme ant worker anatomy-numbered.svg, 10 = Formicidae scutellum See also * Scutoid A scutoid is a particular type of geometric solid between two parallel surfaces. The boundary of each of the surfaces (and of all the other parallel surfaces between them) either is a polygon or resembles a polygon, but is not nec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parasites Of Birds
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophicallytransmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation. One major axis of classification concerns invasiveness: an endoparasite lives inside the host's body; an ect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Charles Bequaert
Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". '' The Nautilus'' 96(2)page 35 Career Bequaert obtained a doctorate in botany at the University of Ghent in 1908. He was an entomologist, and from 1910 to 1912 he was part of ''la commission Belge sur la maladie du sommeil'' (Belgian Committee on sleeping sickness). From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a botanist in the Belgian Congo and also collected mollusks. In 1916 he emigrated to the United States and was an associate researcher from 1917 to 1922 at the American Museum of Natural History. He became an American citizen in 1921, and taught Entomology at the Harvard Medical School. From 1929 to 1956 he was Curator of Insects at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and was Professor of Zoology from 1951 to 1956 within the same institution. Bequaert became president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: , , ) are an archipelago of volcanic islands. They are distributed on each side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, and are part of the Republic of Ecuador. Located west of continental Ecuador, the islands are known for their large number of endemic species that were studied by Charles Darwin during the second voyage of HMS ''Beagle''. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding waters form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador, the Galápagos National Park, and the Galápagos Marine Reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of slightly over 25,000. The first recorded visit to the islands happened by chance in 1535, when Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the Bishop of Panamá, was surprised to find this undiscovered land on a vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psyche (entomological Journal)
''Psyche'' is a scientific journal of entomology which was established in 1874 by the Cambridge Entomological Club as a "journal for the publication of biological contributions upon Arthropoda from any competent person". The name of the journal is derived from the Ancient Greek word for butterfly. The journal has been published since 1874 (with gaps from 1886 to 1887, 1995 to 1999, and 2000 to 2007). In 2007 the Club transferred the journal to the Hindawi Publishing Corporation, and it became an open-access journal in 2008, with articles distributed online under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Almost all back issues were scanned and are available online as PDF files. History Samuel Hubbard Scudder proposed to start an "Organ of the Cambridge Entomological Club" at its fourth meeting. When ''Psyche'' began publication, its first editor was B. P. Mann. Its articles concentrated on general anatomy, biological entomology, and to set up a Bibliographic Record of all writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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