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Pollanisus Viridipulverulentus
''Pollanisus viridipulverulenta'', the satin-green forester, is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is found in the eastern part of Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania). Description The adult moth has head, thorax and forewings metallic blue-green, while the hindwings are grey. The wingspan is about 30 mm. The length of the forewings is 11–13 mm for males and 8–9 mm for females. The female has a yellow tuft of hair at the tip of the abdomen. This species resembles other adult moths in the genus such as ''P. apicalis'' (generally smaller with narrower wings) and ''P. subdolosa'' (distinguishable by a bronze "collar" behind the head). The larva is brown and has clumps of short hair. Life cycle Adults are on wing from August and early September (in Queensland and South Australia) to January (in Tasmania). They are diurnal and can be found feeding during the hottest hours of the day. Mati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville
Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as F. E. Guerin, (12 October 1799, in Toulon – 26 January 1874, in Paris) was a French entomologist. Life and work Guérin-Méneville changed his surname from Guérin in 1836. He was the author of the illustrated work ''Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844'', a complement to the work of the zoologists Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille, ''Le Règne Animal'', which illustrated only a selection of the animals covered. Cuvier was delighted with the work, saying that it would be very useful to readers, and that the illustrations were "as accurate as they were elegant". He also introduced silkworms to France, so they could be bred for the production of silk. Guérin-Méneville founded several journals: ''Magasin de zoologie, d’anatomie comparée et de paléontologie'' (1830), ''Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne'' (1838), ''Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée'' (1849), and ''Revue de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSIRO
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government ... agency responsible for scientific research. CSIRO works with leading organisations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO maintains more than 50 sites across Australia and in France, Chile and the United States, employing about 5,500 people. Federally funded scientific research began in Australia years ago. The Advisory Council of Science and Industry was established in 1916 but was hampered by insufficient available finance. In 1926 the research effort was reinvigorated by establishment of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which strengthened national science leadership and increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollanisus
''Pollanisus'' is a genus of moths of the family Zygaenidae. They are native to Australia and many species have metallic forewings and bodies. Species *'' Pollanisus acharon'' (Fabricius, 1775) *'' Pollanisus angustifrons'' Tarmann, 2005 *'' Pollanisus apicalis'' (Walker, 1854) *'' Pollanisus calliceros'' Turner, 1926 *'' Pollanisus commoni'' Tarmann, 2005 *'' Pollanisus contrastus'' Tarmann, 2005 *'' Pollanisus cupreus'' Walker, 1854 *'' Pollanisus cyanota'' (Meyrick, 1886) *'' Pollanisus edwardsi'' Tarmann, 2005 *'' Pollanisus empyrea'' (Meyrick, 1888) *'' Pollanisus eumetopus'' Turner, 1926 *''Pollanisus eungellae ''Pollanisus eungellae'' is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is only known from the type locality Eungella, an isolated rainforest area in north-eastern Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg ...'' Tarmann, 2005 *'' Pollanisus incertus'' Tarmann, 2005 *'' Pollanisus isolatus'' Tarmann, 2005 *'' Pollanisus litho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibbertia Sericea
''Hibbertia sericea'', commonly known as silky guinea-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with softly-hairy branches, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with eight to fourteen stamens in a cluster on one side of two hairy carpels. Description ''Hibbertia sericea'' is a erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of with softly-hairy young branches. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and woolly-hairy on the lower surface. The flowers are wide and arranged on the ends of branchlets either singly or in clusters of up to seven. The flowers are sessile with leaf-like bracts long, all surrounded by bract-like leaves. The sepals are hairy, long, the outer sepals usually slightly longer but narrower than the inner ones. The petals are bright yellow, egg-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibbertia Stricta
''Hibbertia stricta'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, usually upright shrub with hairy foliage, linear leaves and yellow flowers with six or seven stamens arranged around two woolly-hairy carpels. Description ''Hibertia stricta'' is an upright shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy foliage and ridged branchlets. The leaves are linear, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly, mostly on the ends of short side-branches and are more or less sessile. The five sepals are narrowly egg-shaped, densely hairy on the outer surface, long and joined at the base, the two outer sepals slightly shorter than the other three. The petals are yellow, long and about wide with six or seven stamens arranged around two carpels, each with four ovules. Flowering occurs from September to February. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1817 by Augustin Pyram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibbertia Obtusifolia
''Hibbertia obtusifolia'', commonly known as hoary guinea flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is usually an erect shrub with spreading branches, lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with thirty or more stamens arranged around three glabrous carpels. Description ''Hibbertia obtusifolia'' is an erect shrub with spreading branches up to long that are hairy when young. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a rounded or truncated end. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches or short side shoots and are sessile with two or three bracts long at the base. The sepals are long and of unequal lengths. The petals are mid to pale yellow, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and long. There are thirty or more stamens arranged around three glabrous carpels. Flowering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibbertia
''Hibbertia'', commonly known as guinea flowers, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dilleniaceae. They are usually shrubs with simple leaves and usually yellow flowers with five sepals and five petals. There are about 400 species, most of which occur in Australia but a few species occur in New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji and Madagascar. Description Plants in the genus ''Hibbertia'' are usually shrubs, rarely climbers, and often form mats. Their leaves are usually arranged alternately along the stems, usually sessile, clustered on short side-branches, and have smooth, rarely toothed or lobed edges. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils or on the ends of stems and have five sepals, two "outer" sepals slightly overlapping the three "inner" ones. There are five yellow, rarely orange, petals and the stamens are usually arranged in three to five groups, sometimes on only one side of the carpels. There are between two and five carpels, usually free from each o ... [...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] |
Tasmania
) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Tasmania , established_title2 = Federation , established_date2 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Abel Tasman , demonym = , capital = Hobart , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 29 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species. Differences between butterflies and moths While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.Scoble, MJ 1995. The Lepidoptera: Form, function and diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 404 p. Although the rules for distinguishing moths from butterflies are not well establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
