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Xerolinus Caymanensis
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus ''Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie species description, described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially species description, described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name (biology), generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine grammatical gender, gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkling Beetle
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan in distribution. Taxonomy ''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles in his ''10th edition of Systema Naturae'' 1758-59. The word means "seeker of dark places" (or figuratively a trickster); an English language analogy is "darkling". Numerous Tenebrionidae species do inhabit dark places, however, there are many species in genera such as ''Stenocara'' and ''Onymacris'', which are active by day and inactive at night. The family covers a varied range of forms, such that classification presents great difficulties. These eleven subfamilies were listed in the 2021 review by Bouchard, Bousquet, ''et al.'', updating a similar catalog from 2005.Bouchard, Patrice. Lawrence, John F. Davies, Anthony E. Newton, Alfred F. Synoptic Classification of the World Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands ( es, Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. They are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rico Trench and St. Croix being a displaced part of the same geologic structure. Politically, the British Virgin Islands have been governed as the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, and form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The archipelago is separated from the true Lesser Antilles by the Anegada Passage and from the main island of Puerto Rico by the Virgin Passage. The islands fall into three different political jurisdictions: * Virgin Islands, informally referred to as British Virgin Islands, a British overseas territory, * Virgin Islands of the United States, an unincorporated territory of the United States, * Spanish Virgin Islands, the easternmost islands of the Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerolinus Camanoensis
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus '' Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generic name '' Diasolinus''. This reflects the habitat these beetles are found in. ''Xerolinus'' is in the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerolinus Caguamensis
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus '' Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generic name '' Diasolinus''. This reflects the habitat these beetles are found in. ''Xerolinus'' is in the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the south of Cuba and northeast of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The capital city is George Town on Grand Cayman, which is the most populous of the three islands. The Cayman Islands is considered to be part of the geographic Western Caribbean Zone as well as the Greater Antilles. The territory is a major world offshore financial centre for international businesses and wealthy individuals, largely as a result of the state not charging taxes on any income earned or stored. With a GDP per capita of $91,392, the Cayman Islands has the highest standard of living in the Caribbean. Immigrants from over 130 countries and territories reside in the Cayman Islands. History No archaeological evidence for an indigenous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerolinus Burtoni
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus '' Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generic name '' Diasolinus''. This reflects the habitat these beetles are found in. ''Xerolinus'' is in the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerolinus Bielawskii
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus '' Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generic name '' Diasolinus''. This reflects the habitat these beetles are found in. ''Xerolinus'' is in the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerolinus Bahamae
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus '' Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generic name '' Diasolinus''. This reflects the habitat these beetles are found in. ''Xerolinus'' is in the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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