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Pachnoda Marginata
''Pachnoda marginata'' is a beetle from the subfamily Cetoniinae with a large number of subspecies that lives in west and central Africa. They are sometimes used as food for terrarium animals. The adult beetles are 20–30 mm, the larvae are very small when they hatch, but can grow as long as 60 mm. (2.36 in.) It is commonly called the sun beetle. Description The sun beetle comes in nine subspecies, the three common ones are: ''Pachnoda marginata aurantia'', ''Pachnoda marginata marginata'', ''Pachnoda marginata peregrina'', with ranging colors. ''Pachnoda marginata aurantia'' comes from orange to a yellow-orange, some having a hue gradient towards the middle seen in diagram below. ''Pachnoda marginata marginata'' normally is red or crimson with little change between individuals. ''Pachnoda marginata peregrina'', the more common amongst the subspecies, is a pale yellow or orange with brown spots; one spot being on the thorax and two spots on each elytra on each wing. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cetoniinae
Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles, comprising the subfamily Cetoniinae. Many species are diurnal and visit flowers for pollen and nectar, or to browse on the petals. Some species also feed on fruit. The group is also called fruit and flower chafers, flower beetles and flower scarabs. There are around 4,000 species, many of them still undescribed. Twelve tribes are presently recognized: Cetoniini, Cremastocheilini, Diplognathini, Goliathini, Gymnetini, Phaedimini, Schizorhinini, Stenotarsiini, Taenioderini, Trichiini, Valgini, and Xiphoscelidini. The tribe Gymnetini is the biggest of the American tribes, and Goliathini contains the largest species, and is mainly found in the rainforest regions of Africa. Description Adult flower chafers are usually brightly coloured beetles, often metallic, and somewhat flattened in shape. The insertions of the antennae are visible from above, while the mandibles and labrum are hidden by the clypeus. The elytra lack a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachnoda Marginata Perigrina
''Pachnoda'' is a genus of beetles from the subfamily Cetoniinae with nearly all of the species living in Africa. The limit of the genus is given by the presence of internal lobes in their aedeagi. Species List of species: * '' Pachnoda abyssinica'' (Blanchard, 1842) * '' Pachnoda acutipennis'' (Kolbe, 1914) * '' Pachnoda adelpha'' Kolbe, 1914 * '' Pachnoda albini'' Bourgoin, 1921 * '' Pachnoda allardi'' Ruter, 1969 * '' Pachnoda alluaudi'' Bourgoin, 1913 * '' Pachnoda antoinei'' Beinhundner, 2006 * '' Pachnoda ardoini'' Ruter, 1978 * '' Pachnoda arrowi'' Bourgoin, 1913 * '' Pachnoda babaulti'' Bourgoin, 1921 * '' Pachnoda basilewskyi'' Ruter, 1953 * '' Pachnoda bax'' (Gory & Percheron, 1833) * '' Pachnoda berliozi'' Rigout, 1980 * '' Pachnoda bourgeoni'' Moser, 1924 * '' Pachnoda bourgoini'' Burgeon, 1931 * '' Pachnoda bousqueti'' Rigout, 1989 * '' Pachnoda bukobensis'' Moser, 1914 * '' Pachnoda cervenkai'' Krajcik, 2002 * '' Pachnoda chionopleura'' Fairmaire, 1884 * '' Pachnoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beetles Of The World
''The Beetles of the World'' is a series of books devoted to Coleopterology. Sciences Nat published the 24 first volumes; the following volumes and the supplements were published by Hillside Books, Canterbury. The first book authored by Jacques Rigout was published in French ''Les Coléoptères du Monde'' in 1981 by Sciences Nat, and the book is a revision the genus ''Batocera''. The author printed the book himself, page by page. The 500 copy volume was professionally bound but was soon out of print. A second edition was printed by a professional in 1986. New authors came quickly to publish in the series. There were French specialists such as Gilbert Lachaume (Goliathini), Jean-Pierre Lacroix (Lucanidae), Patrick Bleuzen (Cerambycidae), Thierry Porion (Curculionidae), Roger-Paul Dechambre (Dynastidae), Marc Soula (Rutelinae) or Patrick Arnaud (Scarabaeidae), but also authorities from Belgium: Vincent Allard (Cetoniidae); Switzerland: Tiéry Lander (Buprestidae); Mexico: Miguel-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 1,726,000. It borders Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south-east. Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Kaabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire. Parts of this kingdom persisted until the 18th century, while a few others were under some rule by the Portuguese Empire since the 16th century. In the 19th century, it was colonised as Portuguese Guinea. Portuguese control was restricted and weak until the early 20th century with the pacification campaigns, these campaigns solidified Portuguese sovereignty in the area. The final Portuguese victory over the remaining bastion of mainland resistance, the Papel ruled Kingdom of Bissau in 1915 by the Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetles
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly hard e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruits
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings. In common language usage, "fruit" normally means the seed-associated fleshy structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term "fruit" also includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apples
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, ''Malus sieversii'', is still found today. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and were brought to North America by European colonization of the Americas, European colonists. Apples have Religion, religious and mythology, mythological significance in many cultures, including Norse mythology, Norse, Greek mythology, Greek, and Christianity in Europe, European Christian tradition. Apples grown from seed tend to be very different from those of their parents, and the resultant fruit frequently lacks desired characteristics. Generally, apple cultivars are propagated by clonal grafting onto rootstocks. Apple trees grown without rootstocks tend to be larger and much slower to fruit after plantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bananas
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless ( parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – '' Musa acuminata'' and '' Musa balbisiana''. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are ''Musa acuminata'', ''Musa balbisiana'', and ''Musa'' × ''paradisiaca'' for the hybrid ''Musa acuminata'' × ''M. balbisiana'', depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name for this hybrid, ''Musa sapientum'', is no longer used. ''Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pupa
A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their life cycle, the stages thereof being egg, larva, pupa, and imago. The processes of entering and completing the pupal stage are controlled by the insect's hormones, especially juvenile hormone, prothoracicotropic hormone, and ecdysone. The act of becoming a pupa is called pupation, and the act of emerging from the pupal case is called eclosion or emergence. The pupae of different groups of insects have different names such as ''chrysalis'' for the pupae of butterflies and ''tumbler'' for those of the mosquito family. Pupae may further be enclosed in other structures such as cocoons, nests, or shells. Position in life cycle The pupal stage follows the larval stage and precedes adulthood (''imago'') in insects with complete metamorphosi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egg (biology)
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches. Most arthropods such as insects, vertebrates (excluding live-bearing mammals), and mollusks lay eggs, although some, such as scorpions, do not. Reptile eggs, bird eggs, and monotreme eggs are laid out of water and are surrounded by a protective shell, either flexible or inflexible. Eggs laid on land or in nests are usually kept within a warm and favorable temperature range while the embryo grows. When the embryo is adequately developed it hatches, i.e., breaks out of the egg's shell. Some embryos have a temporary egg tooth they use to crack, pip, or break the eggshell or covering. The largest recorded egg is from a whale shark and was in size. Whale shark eggs typically hatch within the mother. At and up to , the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachnoda Marginata Tunisiensis
''Pachnoda'' is a genus of beetles from the subfamily Cetoniinae with nearly all of the species living in Africa. The limit of the genus is given by the presence of internal lobes in their aedeagi. Species List of species: * '' Pachnoda abyssinica'' (Blanchard, 1842) * '' Pachnoda acutipennis'' (Kolbe, 1914) * '' Pachnoda adelpha'' Kolbe, 1914 * '' Pachnoda albini'' Bourgoin, 1921 * '' Pachnoda allardi'' Ruter, 1969 * '' Pachnoda alluaudi'' Bourgoin, 1913 * '' Pachnoda antoinei'' Beinhundner, 2006 * '' Pachnoda ardoini'' Ruter, 1978 * '' Pachnoda arrowi'' Bourgoin, 1913 * '' Pachnoda babaulti'' Bourgoin, 1921 * '' Pachnoda basilewskyi'' Ruter, 1953 * '' Pachnoda bax'' (Gory & Percheron, 1833) * '' Pachnoda berliozi'' Rigout, 1980 * '' Pachnoda bourgeoni'' Moser, 1924 * '' Pachnoda bourgoini'' Burgeon, 1931 * '' Pachnoda bousqueti'' Rigout, 1989 * '' Pachnoda bukobensis'' Moser, 1914 * '' Pachnoda cervenkai'' Krajcik, 2002 * '' Pachnoda chionopleura'' Fairmaire, 1884 * '' Pachnoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachnoda Marginata Rougeoti
''Pachnoda'' is a genus of beetles from the subfamily Cetoniinae with nearly all of the species living in Africa. The limit of the genus is given by the presence of internal lobes in their aedeagi. Species List of species: * '' Pachnoda abyssinica'' (Blanchard, 1842) * '' Pachnoda acutipennis'' (Kolbe, 1914) * '' Pachnoda adelpha'' Kolbe, 1914 * '' Pachnoda albini'' Bourgoin, 1921 * '' Pachnoda allardi'' Ruter, 1969 * '' Pachnoda alluaudi'' Bourgoin, 1913 * '' Pachnoda antoinei'' Beinhundner, 2006 * '' Pachnoda ardoini'' Ruter, 1978 * '' Pachnoda arrowi'' Bourgoin, 1913 * '' Pachnoda babaulti'' Bourgoin, 1921 * '' Pachnoda basilewskyi'' Ruter, 1953 * '' Pachnoda bax'' (Gory & Percheron, 1833) * '' Pachnoda berliozi'' Rigout, 1980 * '' Pachnoda bourgeoni'' Moser, 1924 * '' Pachnoda bourgoini'' Burgeon, 1931 * '' Pachnoda bousqueti'' Rigout, 1989 * '' Pachnoda bukobensis'' Moser, 1914 * '' Pachnoda cervenkai'' Krajcik, 2002 * '' Pachnoda chionopleura'' Fairmaire, 1884 * '' Pachnoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
