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Nacaduba Cyanea
''Nacaduba cyanea'', the tailed green-banded line-blue, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, and formerly considered a member of the genus '' Danis''. It is found in the Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia (Queensland). The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adult males are blue with a dark brown wing margin, with a pale blue to white patch on the hindwing. Females are white, with a black border around the wings and a row of blue-edged black spots. The larvae feed on ''Entada phaseoloides'' and ''Entada scandens''. They are bright green, with pale brown heads. The larvae are attended to by ants of the genus ''Anonychomyrma''. Pupation takes place in a brown pupa with dark markings. Gallery File:Nacaduba cyanea 4544.jpg, Green-banded line-blue in Cairns Image:Nacaduba cyanea.jpg, Green-banded line-blue at Mission Beach Subspecies * ''N. c. arinia'' (Oberthür, 1878) (Torres Straits Islands, Cooktown to Ingham) - tailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Cramer
Pieter Cramer (21 May 1721 (baptized) – 28 September 1776), was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, remembered as an entomologist. Cramer was the director of the Zealand Society, a scientific society located in Flushing, and a member of ''Concordia et Libertate'', based in Amsterdam. This literary and patriotic society, where Cramer gave lectures on minerals, commissioned and/or financed the publishing of his book ''De uitlandsche Kapellen'', on foreign (exotic) butterflies, occurring in three parts of the world Asia, Africa and America. Cramer assembled an extensive natural history collection that included seashells, petrifications, fossils and insects of all orders. Many were colourful butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), collected in countries where the Dutch had colonial or trading links, such as Surinam, Ceylon, Sierra Leone and the Dutch East Indies. Cramer decided to get a permanent record of his collection and so engaged the painter Gerrit Wartenaar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues (Polyommatinae), the coppers (Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks (Theclinae), and the harvesters (Miletinae). Description, food, and life cycle Adults are small, under 5 cm usually, and brightly coloured, sometimes with a metallic gloss. Larvae are often flattened rather than cylindrical, with glands that may produce secretions that attract and subdue ants. Their cuticles tend to be thickened. Some larvae are capable of producing vibrations and low sounds that are transmitted through the substrates they inhabit. They use these sounds to communicate with ants.Pierce, N. E.; Braby, M. F.; Heath, A.; Lohman, D. J.; Mathew, J.; Rand, D. B. & Travassos, M. A. (2002)"The eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danis (butterfly)
''Danis'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Australasian realm. Species *''Danis absyrtus'' Felder & Felder 1859 *''Danis albomarginata'' Rothschild, 1915 Tanimbar Islands, Misol *''Danis albostrigata'' Bethune-Baker, 1908 New Guinea *''Danis anaximens'' Fruhstorfer, 1907 Kumusi River New Guinea *''Danis annamensis'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 *''Danis aryanus'' Grose-Smith, 1895 Halmahera *''Danis athanetus'' ''Danis melimnos'' ssp. ''athanetus'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 New Guinea *''Danis beata'' Röber, 1926 New Guinea *''Danis caelinus'' Grose-Smith *''Danis caesius'' Grose-Smith, 1894 New Guinea *''Danis caledonica'' Felder and Felder, 1865 *''Danis carissima'' Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1895 Watter and Pura (Philippines?) *''Danis coelinus'' Grose-Smith, 1898 Fergusson Island *''Danis concolor'' *''Danis coroneia'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 New Hannover *''Danis danis'' *''Danis dispar'' Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1895 New Britain *''Danis dissimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia). Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest island country, with an area of . At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, including nearly 60 years of Australian administration starting during World War I, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Elizabeth II as its queen. It also became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right. There are 839 known languages of Papua New Guinea, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BCE, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit them. Though not named by Mendaña, it is believed that the islands were called ''"the Solomons"'' by those who later receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stood at and owned one of the largest wingspans at . Wingspan of aircraft The wingspan of an aircraft is always measured in a straight line, from wingtip to wingtip, independently of wing shape or sweep. Implications for aircraft design and anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Phaseoloides
''Entada phaseoloides'' commonly named the box bean or St. Thomas’ bean, first described by Linnaeus, with its current name described by Merrill. ''E. phaseoloides'' is a liana in the pea family: called ''gugo'', ''balugo'' or ''tamayan'' in the Philippines and ''bàm bàm'' in Viet Nam. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. Description ''Entada phaseoloides'' is a large liana that climbs high into the lowland tropical forest canopy and found in lowland coastal forests of Africa, Australia, Asia and the Western Pacific. The lianas are often (but not exclusively) associated with waterways and seeds are widely dispersed by oceanic currents. Two subspecies have been described: * ''Entada phaseoloides'' subsp. ''phaseoloides'' * ''Eentada phaseoloides'' subsp. ''tonkinensis'' The leaf structure is bi-pinnate compound divided into one to two pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are somewhat elliptical, between long and wide. Flowers are arranged in a raceme with green to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Scandens
''Entada rheedii'', commonly known as African dream herb or snuff box sea bean, and as the cacoon vine in Jamaica, is a large woody liana or climber of the Mimosa Family (Mimosaceae). The vine can grow as long as 120 meters (393.7 feet). Their seeds have a thick and durable seed coat which allows them to survive lengthy periods of immersion in seawater. Naming Though its scientific name was first published as ''E. rheedii'', it is often written as ''Entada rheedei'', honouring Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Draakestein (1637–1691).The International Plant Names Index (2004)''Entada rheedei'' Accessed 5 September 2007. Subspecies The following subspecies have been used: * '' Entada rheedii rheedii'' * '' Entada rheedii sinohimalensis'' (Grierson & D.G.Long) Panigrahi Traditional use The species is employed in African traditional medicine to induce vivid dreams, enabling communication with the spirit world. The inner meat of the seed would be either consumed directly, or the mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anonychomyrma
''Anonychomyrma'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. Distribution and habitat The genus is mainly distributed in New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia; a single species is known from Malaysia and Indonesia. They nest on the ground or in trees, with colonies consisting of 500 to tens of thousands individuals. Species *'' Anonychomyrma anguliceps'' (Forel, 1901) *'' Anonychomyrma angusta'' (Stitz, 1911) *'' Anonychomyrma arcadia'' (Forel, 1915) *'' Anonychomyrma biconvexa'' (Santschi, 1928) *'' Anonychomyrma dimorpha'' (Viehmeyer, 1912) *'' Anonychomyrma extensa'' (Emery, 1887) *'' Anonychomyrma fornicata'' (Emery, 1914) *'' Anonychomyrma froggatti'' (Forel, 1902) *'' Anonychomyrma gigantea'' (Donisthorpe, 1943) *''Anonychomyrma gilberti'' (Forel, 1902) *'' Anonychomyrma glabrata'' (Smith, 1857) *'' Anonychomyrma incisa'' (Stitz, 1932) *''Anonychomyrma itinerans ''Anonychomyrma itinerans'' is a species of ant in the genus ''Anonychomyrma''. Described by Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies Described In 1775
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] |
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