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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] |
Beetle
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] |
Cicindelidae
Tiger beetles are a family of beetles, Cicindelidae, known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed. The fastest known species of tiger beetle, ''Rivacindela hudsoni'', can run at a speed of , or about 125 body lengths per second. As of 2005, about 2,600 species and subspecies were known, with the richest diversity in the Oriental (Indo-Malayan) region, followed by the Neotropics. While historically treated as a subfamily of ground beetles (Carabidae) under the name Cicindelinae, several studies since 2020 indicated that they should be treated as a family, the Cicindelidae, which are a sister group to Carabidae within the Adephaga. Description Tiger beetles often have large bulging eyes, long, slender legs and large curved Mandible (arthropod), mandibles. All are predatory, both as adults and as larvae. The genus ''Cicindela'' has a cosmopolitan distribution. Other well-known genera include ''Tetracha'', ''Omus'', ''Amblycheila'' and ''Manticora (genus), Manticora'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Therates
''Therates'' is a genus of tiger beetles found in South and Southeast Asia. Species These 125 species belong to the genus ''Therates'': * '' Therates alboobliquatus'' W.Horn, 1909 (Japan and Taiwan) * '' Therates aligii'' Wiesner, 2016 (Vietnam) * '' Therates angustatus'' W.Horn, 1902 (Vietnam) * '' Therates annandalei'' W.Horn, 1908 (India) * '' Therates apiceflavus'' Sawada & Wiesner, 1999 (Laos) * '' Therates apicenigrus'' Sawada & Wiesner, 1999 (Laos) * '' Therates arunachalcolus'' Sawada & Wiesner, 2006 (India) * '' Therates bannapecolus'' Sawada & Wiesner, 1999 (Laos and Vietnam) * '' Therates bannokcolus'' Sawada & Wiesner, 1999 (Laos) * '' Therates baolocensis'' Wiesner, 1996 (Vietnam) * '' Therates basalis'' Dejean, 1826 (Southeast Asia) * '' Therates batesii'' J.Thomson, 1857 (Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo) * '' Therates bipunctatus'' Wiesner, 1988 (Indonesia) * '' Therates bruneiensis'' Votruba, 2009 (Indonesia and Borneo) * ''Therates bryanti'' W.Hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
