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Papilio Warscewiczii
''Papilio warscewiczii'' is a Neotropical realm, Neotropical species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus ''Papilio'' that is found in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Habitat Montane forest in the Bolivian Yungas, Bolivian Yungas ecoregion. The larval food plant is not recorded .Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London(Accessed: 18 Aug.2010) Subspecies *''Papilio warscewiczii warscewiczii'' (south-eastern Peru, Bolivia) *''Papilio warscewiczii mercedes'' Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (eastern Peru) *''Papilio warscewiczii jelskii'' Oberthür, 1881 (south-eastern Ecuador, north-western Peru) Taxonomy ''Papilio warscewiczii'' is a member of the ''homerus'' species group. The members of this Cladistics, clade are *''Papilio cacicus'' Lucas, 1852 *''Papilio euterpinus'' Salvin & Godman, 1868 *''Papilio garamas'' (Geyer, [1829]) *''Papilio homerus'' Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Heinrich Hopffer
Carl Heinrich Hopffer (1810–1876) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Hopffer was a curator (Custos) at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He described many new species mainly in the following works. *''Neue Schmetterlinge der Insekten-Sammlung des Konigl. Zoologischen Musei der Universitat zu Berlin'' with Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in Berlin – 3 February 1856, in Berlin), was a German entomologist. He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedr ... (1836) *Lepidoptera Diurna. In Hr Peters legte von sie nem Reisewerke uber Mossambique… Diagnosen Coleopteren und Lepidopteren. ''Berichte uber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Konigl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1855:639-643 (1855) *''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf befehl Seiner Majestat des konigs Friedrich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilio Euterpinus
''Papilio euterpinus'' is a species of Neotropical swallowtail butterfly from the genus ''Papilio'' that is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Taxonomy ''Papilio euterpinus'' is a member of the ''homerus'' species-group. The members of this clade are *''Papilio cacicus'' Lucas, 1852 *''Papilio euterpinus'' Salvin & Godman, 1868 *''Papilio garamas'' (Geyer, 829 *''Papilio homerus'' Fabricius, 1793 *''Papilio menatius'' (Hübner, 819 *''Papilio warscewiczii'' Hopffer, 1865 ''Papilio euterpinus'' is in the subgenus ''Pterourus'' Scopoli, 1777 which also includes the species-groups:- ''troilus'' species-group, ''glaucus'' species-group, the ''zagreus'' species-group and the ''scamander'' species-group. References *Lewis, H. L., 1974 ''Butterflies of the World'' Page 24, figure 22 External linksButterflies of America typesImages from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien The Natural History Museum Vienna (german: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) is a large natural history museum loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fauna Of The Andes
The fauna of the Andes, a mountain range in South America, is large and diverse. As well as a huge variety of flora, the Andes contain many different animal species. With almost 1,000 species, of which roughly 2/3 are endemic to the region, the Andes are the most important region in the world for amphibians.Tropical Andes - biodiversityhotspots.org The diversity of animals in the Andes is high, with almost 600 species of (13% endemic), more than 1,700 species of (about 1/3 endemic), more than 600 species of |
Papilionidae Of South America
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus ''Ornithoptera''. Swallowtails have a number of distinctive features; for example, the papilionid caterpillar bears a repugnatorial organ called the osmeterium on its prothorax. The osmeterium normally remains hidden, but when threatened, the larva turns it outward through a transverse dorsal groove by inflating it with fluid. The forked appearance in some of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name ''swallowtail''. As for its formal name, Linnaeus chose ''Papilio'' for the type genus, as ''papilio'' is Latin for "butterfly". For the specific epithets of the genus, Linnaeus applied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Union For Conservation Of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It is involved in data gathering and analysis, research, field projects, advocacy, and education. IUCN's mission is to "influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable". Over the past decades, IUCN has widened its focus beyond conservation ecology and now incorporates issues related to sustainable development in its projects. IUCN does not itself aim to mobilize the public in support of nature conservation. It tries to influence the actions of governments, business and other stakeholders by providing information and advice and through building partnerships. The organization is best known to the wider pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Für Naturkunde
The Natural History Museum (german: Museum für Naturkunde) is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside ''Naturmuseum Senckenberg'' in Frankfurt and ''Museum Koenig'' in Bonn. The museum houses more than 30 million zoological, paleontological, and mineralogical specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens. It is famous for two exhibits: the largest mounted dinosaur in the world (a ''Giraffatitan'' skeleton), and a well-preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, ''Archaeopteryx''. The museum's mineral collections date back to the Prussian Academy of Sciences of 1700. Important historic zoological specimens include those recovered by the German deep-sea Valdiva expedition (1898–99), the German Southpolar Expedition (1901–03), and the German Sunda Expedition (1929–31). Expeditions to fossil beds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the defining features of that particular taxon. In older usage (pre-1900 in botany), a type was a taxon rather than a specimen. A taxon is a scientifically named grouping of organisms with other like organisms, a set that includes some organisms and excludes others, based on a detailed published description (for example a species description) and on the provision of type material, which is usually available to scientists for examination in a major museum research collection, or similar institution. Type specimen According to a precise set of rules laid down in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), the scientific name of every taxon is almost al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Warszewicz
Józef Warszewicz Ritter von Rawicz ( lt, 'Juozapas Varševičius') (8(?) September 1812, Vilnius – 29 December 1866, Cracow) was a Polish people, Polish botanist, plant and animal collector, and biologist. Life Born into an impoverished Polish family of lower nobility, he grew up in Vilnius, Lithuania, and became a botanist at the botanical garden of the Vilnius University. While at the university, he joined the November Uprising which was quickly and brutally suppressed, whereupon, with the remnants of the Polish army, he fled to Germany. In the years 1840-1844 he worked as assistant gardener in the Botanical Garden at Berlin. In 1844, upon recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, he was sent by Louis van Houtte, Louis Benoît Van Houtte, a horticulturalist of Ghent, to join a Belgian colony in Guatemala, where he soon became an independent collector and wholesale supplier of plants to European horticulturalists and botanical gardens. Warszewicz was especially interested i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilio Judicael
''Papilio'' is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word ''papilio'' is Latin for butterfly. It includes the common yellow swallowtail (''Papilio machaon''), which is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere and the type species of the genus, as well as a number of other well-known North American species such as the western tiger swallowtail (''Papilio rutulus''). Familiar species elsewhere in the world include the Mormons (''Papilio polytes'', ''Papilio polymnestor'', ''Papilio memnon'', and ''Papilio deiphobus'') in Asia, the orchard and Ulysses swallowtails in Australia (''Papilio aegeus'', ''Papilio ulysses'', respectively) and the citrus swallowtail of Africa (''Papilio demodocus''). Older classifications of the swallowtails tended to use many rather small genera. More recent classifications have been more conservative, and as a result a number of former genera are now absorbed within ''Papi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilio Menatius
''Papilio menatius'' is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. Description ''Papilio menatius'' is a large butterfly with wingspan of about . Uppersides of the wings are black with yellowish bands and yellowish submarginal lines of spots. The subspecies ''P. m. menatius'' present in Guyana is black with white spots at the center of the forewings. On the hindwings there are a submarginal row of red lines and a line of spots partly red and partly white. Subspecies ''P. m. victorinus'' is treated as a species by some authors. The larvae of ''P. m. victorinus'' feed on ''Persea americana''. Adults feed on flower nectar of various plants, including ''Lantana'' and ''Impatiens'' species. Taxonomy ''Papilio menatius'' is in the subgenus ''Pterourus'' Scopoli, 1777 which also includes the species groups: ''troilus'' species group, ''glaucus'' species group, the ''zagreus'' species group and the ''scamander'' species group. ''Papilio menatius'' is a member of the ''homerus'' species gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilio Homerus
''Papilio homerus'', commonly known as the Homerus swallowtail or Jamaican swallowtail, is the largest butterfly species in the Western Hemisphere. The species is endangered and faces a potentially bleak future. Only two small populations of the Homerus swallowtail remain in a fraction of their original environment. It is endemic to Jamaica where the butterfly simultaneously serves as an icon of national pride and a need for conservation efforts. Over the past half century, the Jamaican swallowtail has been featured on various postal stamps and the Jamaican $1000 bill. In the face of rapid habitat destruction from human disruption and illegal collecting, the Jamaican swallowtail is listed on the ''Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World'' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Red List) and is protected under international and national level legislation. The butterfly is named in honor of the Greek poet Homer. The adult butterfly has been described by re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilio Garamas
''Papilio garamas'', commonly known as the magnificent swallowtail, is a species of Neotropical swallowtail butterfly found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Costa Rica. Description A large butterfly with a wingspan of 80 to 110 millimetres. The females are dimorphic, either resembling the male or dark forms lacking the cream median and postdiscal bands contrasting with deep black ground colour. Subspecies *''Papilio garamas garamas'' (western Mexico) *''Papilio garamas abderus'' Hopffer, 1856 (eastern Mexico) generally seen as conspecific with ''P. garamas'' but sometimes treated as a distinct species (Collins & Morris 1985:87, Hancock 1983, Llorente-Bousquets et al. 1997). *''Papilio garamas electryon'' Bates, 1864 (Guatemala to Honduras) may be placed in ''abderus'' *''Papilio garamas syedra'' Godman & Salvin, 1878 (Panama, Costa Rica) may be placed in ''abderus'' *''Papilio garamas baroni'' Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (Mexico) may be placed in ''abderus'' Taxonomy '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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