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Duffer
Duffer may refer to: * Duffer (Narnia), invisible dwarves in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' * Duffer, in Australian English, a person occupied in cattle raiding * A weak player in the game of chess In biology: * ''Discophora'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies commonly known as duffers ** Banded duffer (''Discophora deo ''Discophora deo'', the banded duffer,"''Discophora'' Boisduval, [1836]"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butter ...''), a butterfly found in Asia ** Common duffer (''Discophora sondaica''), a butterfly found in Southeast Asia ** Great duffer (''Discophora timora''), a butterfly found in South Asia ** Southern duffer (''Discophora lepida''), a butterfly found in India See also *'' The Defence of Duffer's Drift'', a 1904 book by Ernest Dunlop Swinton {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duffer (Narnia)
Duffer may refer to: *Duffer is a common word in Northern California for a "sifter" used to separate A grade material from B grade material and "shake". * Duffer (Narnia), invisible dwarves in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' * Duffer, as in "Swallows and Amazons", by Arthur Ransome: '.....if not duffers, won't drown. Better drown than duffers.' * Duffer, in Australian English, a person occupied in cattle raiding * A weak player in the game of chess In biology: * ''Discophora'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies commonly known as duffers ** Banded duffer (''Discophora deo''), a butterfly found in Asia ** Common duffer (''Discophora sondaica''), a butterfly found in Southeast Asia ** Great duffer (''Discophora timora''), a butterfly found in South Asia ** Southern duffer (''Discophora lepida''), a butterfly found in India See also *''The Defence of Duffer's Drift ''The Defence of Duffer's Drift'' is a short 1904 book by Ernest Dunlop Swinton. Lieutenant Backsight For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discophora Deo
''Discophora deo'', the banded duffer,"''Discophora'' Boisduval, [1836]"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies family. Distribution The banded duffer ranges from Manipurde Nicéville, 1898; ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 12 (1): 137 (Manipur) in India across to the northern part of Myanmar, the Shan States, northern Thailand to northern Vietnam. Status In 1932, William Harry Evans reported that the butterfly was very rare in its South Asian range. See also *List of butterflies of India *List of butterflies of India (Morphinae) *List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India. Danainae (26 spp) See List of butterflies of India (Danainae). Morphi ... C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discophora Timora
''Discophora timora'', the great duffer,"''Discophora'' Boisduval, [1836]"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies family. Distribution The great duffer ranges from Sikkim and Assam in India to Myanmar, Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Indochina. A subspecies of the butterfly is found as a rare endemic in the Andaman Islands. It was recorded as ''Discophora continentalis andamanensis'', Staudinger by William Harry Evans. See also *List of butterflies of India The following is a list of the butterflies of India. India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ... * List of butterflies of India (Morphinae) * List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae) Cited references Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discophora Lepida
''Discophora lepida'', the southern duffer,"''Discophora'' Boisduval, [1836]"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a butterfly found in Sri Lanka and south India that belongs to the duffers group, that is, the Morphinae subfamily of the Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies family. Description This species resembles ''Discophora celinde'', but in the male the ground colour on the upperside is dark velvety brown without any blue reflections; the forewing is crossed pre-apically by three obliquely-placed, comparatively large, pale-blue spots with an ill-defined series of three or four much smaller subterminal spots; in the female the markings, though similar to those in the female of ''D. celinde'', are on the upperside of the forewing all pale blue, not yellow, and more numerous, larger, and better defined on the upperside of the hindwing. Underside. Male similar to that in male of ''D. celinde'', but a more or less prominent diffuse subterminal band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discophora Sondaica
''Discophora sondaica'', the common duffer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin .... Description Upperside of male dark brown. Forewing with transverse discal, postdiscal and subterminal series of bluish spots, the latter two series closely approximate. Hindwing uniform except for the prominence of the discal secondary sex-mark, and faint indications of a subterminal series of pale spots. Underside a dull ochraceous brown, the basal half of the wing is darker, defined outwardly by a still darker but obscure transverse band ending in a lilacine diffuse small patch at the tornus of the hindwing; both forewing and hindwing irrorated somewhat sparsely with short transverse brown striae and obscurely tinted with lil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cattle Raiding
Cattle raiding is the act of stealing cattle. In Australia, such stealing is often referred to as duffing, and the perpetrator as a duffer.Baker, Sidney John (1945) ''The Australian language : an examination of the English language and English speech as used in Australia'' Angus and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney, p. 32, In North America, especially in the Wild West cowboy culture, cattle theft is dubbed rustling, while an individual who engages in it is a rustler. Historical cattle raiding The act of cattle-raiding is quite ancient, first attested over seven thousand years ago, and is one of the oldest-known aspects of Proto-Indo-European culture, being seen in inscriptions on artifacts such as the Norse Golden Horns of Gallehus and in works such as the Old Irish ''Táin Bó Cúailnge'' ("Cattle Raid of Cooley"), the ''paṇis'' of the ''Rigveda,'' the ''Mahabharata'' cattle raids and cattle rescues; and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, who steals the cattle of Apollo. Ireland & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glossary Of Chess
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like ''#fork, fork'' and ''#pin, pin''. For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named #opening, opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of chess variants. A B , "lightning"] A #fast chess, fast form of chess with a very short #time control, time limit, usually three or five minutes per player for the entire game. With the advent of electronic #chess clock, chess clocks, the time remaining is often incremented by one or two seconds per move.Schiller 2003, p. 398 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discophora (butterfly)
''Discophora'', commonly known as the duffers is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. The members are confined to India, China and Southeast Asia. Species *'' Discophora bambusae'' C. & R. Felder, 867/small> *''Discophora celinde'' (Stoll, 790 *''Discophora deo'' de Nicéville, 1898 *''Discophora dodong'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1981 *''Discophora lepida'' (Moore, 1857) *''Discophora necho'' C. & R. Felder, 867/small> *'' Discophora ogina'' (Godart, 824 *'' Discophora philippina'' Moore, 895/small> *'' Discophora simplex'' Staudinger, 1889 *''Discophora sondaica'' Boisduval, 1836 *'' Discophora timora'' Westwood, 850 ''For codepage, see CP850.'' __NOTOC__ Year 850 (Roman numerals, DCCCL) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * February 1 – King Ramiro I of A .../small> References External linksImages representing ''Discophora''at BOLDImages representing ''Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
