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Synteliidae
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntelia Histeroides
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntelia Davidis
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntelia Indica
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntelia Mazuri
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntelia Mexicana
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntelia Sinica
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntelia Westwoodi
''Syntelia'' is a genus of beetles. It is the only genus in the family Synteliidae. There are seven known species, which are native to high-elevation regions in southern North America from central Mexico to Guatemala, and in eastern Asia, from India to Japan and eastern Russia. They are generally associated with rotting logs, typically found under bark, thought the Mexican species ''S. westwoodi'' has been found inside large decaying columnar cacti. Adults and larvae are predatory, feeding on insect larvae.Newton, Alfred F.. "Synteliidae Lewis, 1882: Coleoptera, Beetles". ''Handbook of Zoology Online'', edited by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. A fossil species, ''Syntelia sunwukong'', is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Adults are around in length. The characteristics of the family and genus include geniculate antennae with 3-segmented club, elongate body, narrowly separated coxae and tarsi with bisetose em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Histeroidea
Histeroidea is a superfamily of beetles in the infraorder Staphyliniformia. Characteristics Characteristic to Histeroidea are an accessory posterior ridge (locking device) behind the hind margin and presence of medial loop and apical hinge of wing. The elytra are truncate with 1 or 2 abdominal segments visible. The abdominal 8th segment is completely invaginated in the 7th segment. Each antenna has 8 (seldom 7) segments preceding a club of fused segments. The ventral body surface is glabrous.Hansen, MPhylogeny and classification of the staphyliniform beetle families (Coleoptera) Biologiske Skrifter, Copenhagen, 1997 Ecology Histeroids in general are predators. However, Sphaeritidae is believed to only be predatory in the larval stage, with its adults being saprophagous instead. This superfamily occurs in various habitats. The Histeridae alone can be found in dung, carrion, fungi, leaf litter, in symbiosis with other animals (e.g. social insects), under tree bark or in gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lewis (coleopterist)
George Lewis (1839–1926), F.L.S., F.E.S., was an English entomologist. He was a specialist in Coleoptera. Lewis was born on 5 August 1839, the second son of the Rev. R. Cr. Lewis, first Vicar of St. John's, Blackheath, S.E. He was educated at the Blackheath Proprietary School. In 1862 he went to China for the tea trade and returned to England twenty years later, after also spending periods in Japan and Sri Lanka. He married Miss Julia Hunter, of Iiiuer Park Road, Wimbledon Common. Soon after his marriage in 1867, he spent several years traveling and collecting beetles in Japan, and he visited that country again in 1880. He also collected in Ceylon and Algiers. An ardent entomologist from boyhood, Lewis made important collections of beetles in the East, most of which were acquired by the British Museum. He authored numerous taxa, including 750 species in the family Histeridae (a tiny fraction being listehere and had been for many years the recognized authority on the beetles o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthropod Leg
The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking. Many of the terms used for arthropod leg segments (called podomeres) are of Latin origin, and may be confused with terms for bones: ''coxa'' (meaning hip, plural ''coxae''), ''trochanter'', ''femur'' (plural ''femora''), ''tibia'' (plural ''tibiae''), ''tarsus'' (plural ''tarsi''), ''ischium'' (plural ''ischia''), ''metatarsus'', ''carpus'', ''dactylus'' (meaning finger), ''patella'' (plural ''patellae''). Homologies of leg segments between groups are difficult to prove and are the source of much argument. Some authors posit up to eleven segments per leg for the most recent common ancestor of extant arthropods but modern arthropods have eight or fewer. It has been argued that the ancestral leg need not have been so complex, and that other events, such as successive loss of function of a ''Hox''-gene, could result in parallel gains of leg segments. In arthropods, each of the leg segments ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Histeridae
Histeridae is a family of beetles commonly known as clown beetles or Hister beetles. This very diverse group of beetles contains 3,900 species found worldwide. They can be easily identified by their shortened elytra that leaves two of the seven tergites exposed, and their geniculate (elbowed) antennae with clubbed ends. These predatory feeders are most active at night and will fake death if they feel threatened. This family of beetles will occupy almost any kind of niche throughout the world. Hister beetles have proved useful during forensic investigations to help in time of death estimation. Also, certain species are used in the control of livestock pests that infest dung and to control houseflies. Because they are predacious and will even eat other Hister beetles, they must be isolated when collected. Characteristics The Hister beetles are easily identified by their shiny elytra which is typically shiny black or metallic green. The two main shapes for this family are oval a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elytra
An elytron (; ; , ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alternatively spelled as "hemielytra"), and in most species only the basal half is thickened while the apex is membranous, but when they are entirely thickened the condition is referred to as "coleopteroid". An elytron is sometimes also referred to as a shard. Description The elytra primarily serve as protective wing-cases for the hindwings underneath, which are used for flying. To fly, a beetle typically opens the elytra and then extends the hindwings, flying while still holding the elytra open, though many beetles in the families Scarabaeidae and Buprestidae can fly with the elytra closed (e.g., most Cetoniinae; ). In a number of groups, the elytra are reduced to various degrees, (e.g., the beetle families Staphylinidae and Ripiphoridae), or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
