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Parancistrocerus
''Parancistrocerus'' is a rather large genus of potter wasps whose distribution spans the Nearctic, eastern Palearctic, Oriental and Neotropical regions. A pair of medial pits on the anterior face of the pronotum and the expansion of the tegulae put this genus close to the genus '' Stenodynerus'' and many species of both genera are somewhat difficult to assignate to their respective genus. Their species are notable for having a smooth depression acting as an acarinarium at the base of the second metasomal tergum and hidden under the first metasomal tergum. This acarinarium serves as shelter for symbiotic Symbiosis (from Greek , , "living together", from , , "together", and , bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasit ... deutonymphs of mites in the family Winterschmidtiidae. Most of the species bear a transverse carina on the first metasomal terg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Parancistrocerus Species
These 111 species belong to ''Parancistrocerus'', a genus of potter and mason wasps in the family Vespidae. ''Parancistrocerus'' species * '' Parancistrocerus acarigaster'' (Bohart, 1952) * '' Parancistrocerus acarophilus'' Giordani Soika, 1995 * '' Parancistrocerus acarophorus'' (Bohart, 1952) * '' Parancistrocerus acclivus'' Gusenleitner 2007 * '' Parancistrocerus algidus'' (Schrottky, 1909) * '' Parancistrocerus androcles'' (Meade-Waldo, 1910) * '' Parancistrocerus areatus'' (Fox, 1902) * '' Parancistrocerus assamensis'' (Meade-Waldo, 1910) * '' Parancistrocerus assumptionis'' (Brethes, 1906) * '' Parancistrocerus atkinsi'' Bequard & Salt, 1931 * '' Parancistrocerus austrinus'' (Cresson, 1872) * '' Parancistrocerus bacu'' (de Saussure, 1852) * '' Parancistrocerus bacuensis'' (de Saussure, 1852) * '' Parancistrocerus bicornis'' (Roberts, 1901) * '' Parancistrocerus binotatus'' (Fabricius, 1804) * '' Parancistrocerus bonariensis'' (Brethes, 1906) * '' Parancistrocerus bravo'' (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parancistrocerus Fulvipes
''Parancistrocerus fulvipes'' also known by the common name ''potter wasp'' is a species of stinging wasp in the family Vespidae. This species' nesting sites include borings in wood, old mud dauber and ''Polistes'' nests, and abandoned burrows of ground-nesting bees, but it may also construct its own burrows in the ground. Prey includes caterpillars of Tortricidae, Nolidae, Chloephorinae, Crambidae, and Gelechiidae. Subspecies These two subspecies belong to the species ''Parancistrocerus fulvipes'': * ''Parancistrocerus fulvipes fulvipes'' * ''Parancistrocerus fulvipes rufovestis'' Bohart, 1948 g b Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net References Further reading * * * External links * Potter wasps Insects described in 1856 {{potter-wasp-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parancistrocerus Perennis Mating
''Parancistrocerus'' is a rather large genus of potter wasps whose distribution spans the Nearctic, eastern Palearctic, Oriental and Neotropical regions. A pair of medial pits on the anterior face of the pronotum and the expansion of the tegulae put this genus close to the genus '' Stenodynerus'' and many species of both genera are somewhat difficult to assignate to their respective genus. Their species are notable for having a smooth depression acting as an acarinarium at the base of the second metasomal tergum and hidden under the first metasomal tergum. This acarinarium serves as shelter for symbiotic deutonymphs of mites in the family Winterschmidtiidae. Most of the species bear a transverse carina on the first metasomal tergum and the whole body of many neotropical species have a faint submetallic luster. See also * List of Parancistrocerus species These 111 species belong to ''Parancistrocerus'', a genus of potter and mason wasps in the family Vespidae. ''Parancist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenodynerus
''Stenodynerus'' is a rather large genus of potter wasps whose distribution spans the Nearctic, Palearctic, Oriental and Neotropical regions. Most of its species lack a transverse carina on the first metasomal tergum. A pair of medial pits on the anterior face of the pronotum and the expansion of the tegulae put this genus close to genera as ''Parancistrocerus ''Parancistrocerus'' is a rather large genus of potter wasps whose distribution spans the Nearctic, eastern Palearctic, Oriental and Neotropical regions. A pair of medial pits on the anterior face of the pronotum and the expansion of the tegulae ...'', '' Hypancistrocerus'' and '' Eustenancistrocerus''. Species *'' Stenodynerus abactus'' (Brethes) *'' Stenodynerus accinctus'' Bohart *'' Stenodynerus aequisculptus'' (Kostylev) *'' Stenodynerus ameghinoi'' Brethes *'' Stenodynerus ammonia'' (Saussure) *'' Stenodynerus anatropus'' Bohart *'' Stenodynerus anormiformis'' (Viereck) *'' Stenodynerus anormis'' (Say) *'' Sten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acarinarium
An acarinarium is a specialized anatomical structure which is evolved to facilitate the retention of mites on the body of an organism, typically a bee or a wasp. The term was introduced by Walter Karl Johann Roepke. Evolution The acarinarium has evolved to enhance the Mutualism (biology), mutualistic relationship between the mites and the host organism. There are numerous cases where mites are phoresy, phoretic on organisms that benefit from the mites' presence; cases where the host's body has changed over evolutionary time to accommodate the mites are far less common. The best-known examples are among the Apocritan Hymenoptera, in which the hosts are typically nest-making species, and it appears that the mites feed on fungi in the host nests (thus keeping away the fungi from host's offspring or their provisions), or possibly other parasites or mites whose presence in the nest is detrimental to the hosts. It is especially telling that nearly all the examples involve only the femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biological Pest Control Wasps
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary information encoded in genes, which can be transmitted to future generations. Another major theme is evolution, which explains the unity and diversity of life. Energy processing is also important to life as it allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce. Finally, all organisms are able to regulate their own internal environments. Biologists are able to study life at multiple levels of organization, from the molecular biology of a cell to the anatomy and physiology of plants and animals, and evolution of populations.Based on definition from: Hence, there are multiple subdisciplines within biology, each defined by the nature of their research questions and the tools that they use. Like other scientists, biologists use the scientific metho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winterschmidtiidae
Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata Astigmatina is a clade of mites in the superorder Acariformes. Astigmata has been ranked as an order or suborder in the past, but was lowered to the unranked clade Astigmatina of the clade Desmonomatides (synonym Desmonomata) in the order Sarcopt .... Genera These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae: * '' Acalvolia'' Fain, 1971 * '' Allocalvolia'' Fain & Rack, 1987 * '' Calvolia'' Oudemans, 1911 * '' Congovidia'' Fain & Elsen, ''in'' Fain, 1971 * '' Crabrovidia'' Zakhvatkin, 1941 * '' Czenspinskia'' Oudemans, 1927 * '' Ensliniella'' Vitzthum, 1925 * '' Gambacarus'' Mahunka, 1975 * '' Kennethiella'' Cooreman, 1954 * '' Kurosaia'' Okabe & OConnor, 2002 * '' Macroharpa'' Mostafa, 1970 * '' Monobiacarus'' Baker & Cunliffe, 1960 * '' Neocalvolia'' Hughes, 1970 * '' Neosuidasia'' Ranganath & Channabasa, 1983 * '' Neottiglyphus'' Volgin, 1974 * '' Oulenzia'' Radford, 1950 * '' Oulenziella'' Fan ''e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symbiotic
Symbiosis (from Greek , , "living together", from , , "together", and , bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic. The organisms, each termed a symbiont, must be of different species. In 1879, Heinrich Anton de Bary defined it as "the living together of unlike organisms". The term was subject to a century-long debate about whether it should specifically denote mutualism, as in lichens. Biologists have now abandoned that restriction. Symbiosis can be obligatory, which means that one or more of the symbionts depend on each other for survival, or facultative (optional), when they can generally live independently. Symbiosis is also classified by physical attachment. When symbionts form a single body it is called conjunctive symbiosis, while all other arrangements are called disjunctive symbiosis."symbiosis." Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula (insect Anatomy)
A tegula is a small sclerite with innervated bristles situated above the base of the costal vein in the wings of various insects such as Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Auchenorrhyncha, and attached to the antero-lateral portion of the mesonotum. The tegula in locusts is a model system for studying the role of feedback from mechanoreceptors during movement. In locusts, the tegula directly controls flight muscles. The motor neurons that control the activation of wing elevator muscles are phase-locked to the neurons that innervate the tegula such that when the tegula is electrically stimulated the elevator muscles initiate an upstroke. When the tegula is removed, locust flight is clumsy and disordered at first but most animals adapt, suggesting the use of other mechanoreceptors to control flight. The tegula system is also a model for studying the role of neuromodulation for state-dependent motor control. Neural signals from the tegula only initiate wing muscle contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pronotum
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on each side. The prothorax never bears wings in extant insects (except in some cases of atavism), though some fossil groups possessed wing-like projections. All adult insects possess legs on the prothorax, though in a few groups (e.g., the butterfly family Nymphalidae) the forelegs are greatly reduced. In many groups of insects, the pronotum is reduced in size, but in a few it is hypertrophied, such as in all beetles (Coleoptera). In most treehoppers (family Membracidae, order Hemiptera), the pronotum is expanded into often fantastic shapes that enhance their camouflage or mimicry. Similarly, in the Tetrigidae, the pronotum is extended backward to cover the flight wings, supplanting the function of the tegmina. See also *Glossary of entomolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and southern North America. In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical. In the United States southern Florida and coastal Central Florida are considered Neotropical. The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic kingdom. The Neotropic is delimited by similarities in fauna or flora. Its fauna and flora are distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
