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Pterochroza
''Pterochroza ocellata'', the peacock katydid, is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae from the Amazon rainforest in South America. It is the only species in the genus ''Pterochroza''. The species is a leaf-mimic katydid; when it is in repose its camouflage resembles a diseased or dead leaf. The katydid owes both its common name and its specific name (zoology), specific epithet (''ocellata'', meaning "marked with little eyes") to its Deimatic behaviour, startle display, in which it shows false eye spots on its normally hidden hind wings. Characteristics The adult ''Pterochroza ocellata'' is about 45mm to 65mm in length. In its protective camouflage it resembles a dried leaf. If in spite of its camouflage it is threatened, the katydid exposes its hind wings, displaying two conspicuous eye spots. No two individual ''Pterochroza ocellata'' are identical in their color pattern or the shape of the wings; this reduces the risk that predators could learn to recognize a fixed visual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pterochrozinae
The Pterochrozinae are a subfamily of the Tettigoniidae found in Central and South America. They were previously placed as a tribe in the subfamily Pseudophyllinae and have been called "leaf-mimic katydids". Genera , Orthoptera Species File lists the following: *'' Anommatoptera'' Vignon, 1923 *'' Asbolomma'' Beier, 1962 *'' Celidophylla'' Saussure & Pictet, 1898 *'' Cycloptera'' Serville, 1838 *'' Mimetica'' Pictet, 1888 *'' Ommatoptera'' Pictet, 1888 *'' Paracycloptera'' Vignon, 1926 *'' Porphyromma'' Redtenbacher, 1895 *'' Pterochroza'' Serville, 1831 *'' Rhodopteryx'' Pictet, 1888 *''Roxelana Hurrem Sultan (, ota, خُرّم سلطان, translit=Ḫurrem Sulṭān, tr, Hürrem Sultan, label=Modern Turkish; 1500 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana ( uk, Роксолана}; ), was the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottom ...'' Kirby, 1906 *'' Tanusia'' Stål, 1874 *'' Tanusiella'' Enderlein, 1917 *'' Typophyllum'' Serville, 1838 References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
