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Sevenia Natalensis
''Sevenia natalensis'', the Natal tree nymph, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae found in southeastern Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ....''Sallya'' at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Wingspan: 40–48 mm. Flight period year round, peaking between February and May. Larvae feed of '' Sapium reticulatum'' and '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook ''Flores française'' in 1828. Early in his career, he was interested in Coleoptera and allied himself with both Jean Théodore Lacordaire and Pierre André Latreille. He was the curator of the Pierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many species of beetles, as well as butterflies and moths, resulting from the voyages of the ''Astrolabe'', the expedition ship of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse and the '' Coquille'', that of Louis Isidore Duperrey. He left Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called brush-footed butterflies or four-footed butterflies, because they are known to stand on only four legs while the other two are curled up; in some species, these forelegs have a brush-like set of hairs, which gives this family its other common name. Many species are brightly coloured and include popular species such as the emperors, monarch butterfly, admirals, tortoiseshells, and fritillaries. However, the under wings are, in contrast, often dull and in some species look remarkably like dead leaves, or are much paler, producing a cryptic effect that helps the butterflies blend into their surroundings. Nomenclature Rafinesque introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapium Reticulatum
''Sapium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the Old World species into other genera. Species are known commonly as milktrees.''Sapium''. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Description These are s and s. They produce . The leaves are alternately ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapium Integerrimum
''Sclerocroton integerrimus'', the duiker berry, is a tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, from Southern Africa. Taxonomy This species was originally named as two species; ''Sclerocroton integerrimus'' Hochst. (1845) and ''S. reticulatus'' Hochst. (1845). When ''Sclerocroton integerrimus'' was united for the first time, Baillon (in Adansonia 3: 162. 1863) adopted the name ''Stillingia integerrima'' (Hochst.) Baill. for the combined taxon. This tree has also been named ''Sapium integerrimum''; with most literature referring to it by this name (2010). Distribution Found from the coastal areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to Mozambique and Botswana.Pooley, E. (1993). ''The Complete Field Guide to Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei''. . Description A small to medium-sized tree growing up to 15m tall. Stem and branches Single or multi-stemmed, with smooth pale grey bark, and arching, weeping branches. The branchlets are reddish-brown, later becoming grey-brown in colour. Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sevenia
''Sevenia'', commonly called tree nymphs, is a genus of forest butterflies in the family Nymphalidae that, as larvae, feed on plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. There are fourteen species from continental Africa and two (or three) species from Madagascar. See ''Idea'' for the genus of Southeast Asian tree nymphs. Taxonomy ''Sevenia'' (as ''Sallya'') has been viewed as a subgenus of the Neotropical genus '' Eunica'' by authors. The type species of the genus is '' Crenis madagascariensis'' Boisduval Species and subspecies Listed alphabetically: *'' Sevenia amazoula'' (Mabille, 1880) *'' Sevenia amulia'' (Cramer, 1777) **''Sevenia amulia amulia'' (Cramer, 1777) (= ''Papilio amulia'' Cramer, 1777) **''Sevenia amulia rosa'' (Hewitson, 1877) **''Sevenia amulia intermedia'' Carcasson, 1961 *'' Sevenia benguelae'' (Chapman, 1872) *'' Sevenia boisduvali'' (Wallengren, 1857) (= ''Crenis boisduvali'' Wallengren, 1857) – Boisduval's tree nymph **''Sevenia boisduvali boisduvali'' (Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies Described In 1847
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it flie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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