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Badamia
''Badamia'' is an Indoaustralian genus of skipper butterflies containing two species. The larvae feed on ''Terminalia'' (Combretaceae). Species The genus includes the following species: * '' Badamia atrox'' (Butler, 1877) (Fiji) * '' Badamia exclamationis'' (Fabricius, 1775) References * de Jong, R. & Treadaway, C. G. 2007 Hesperiidae of the Philippine Islands. ''In Butterflies of the World'', Supplement 15 (ed. E. Bauer & T. Frankenbach), pp. 1–72. Keltern: Goecke & Elvers. * Parsons M. 1999. ''The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology.'' Academic Press, San Diego. * Tennent, W. J. 2002. ''Butterflies of the Solomon Islands: systematics and biogeography''. Storm Entomological Publications, Dereham, Norfolk, U. K. External links * * Badamia at funetImages representing ''Badamia''at Consortium for the Barcode of Life The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badamia Exclamationis
''Badamia exclamationis'', commonly known as the brown awl or narrow-winged awl,Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera. Page on genuTOL web page on genu''Badamia''/ref> is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in south and southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania. Range The brown awl is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, South Yunnan, Australia and Japan. This butterfly is found throughout the Indian subcontinent and in the Andaman islands. The type locality is South India. Status As per William Harry Evans (1932), the butterfly is common in India and rare in the Andaman islands. Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth (1957) records it as "Not Rare" and "Locally Common". Krushnamegh Kunte (2000) reports it as common in deciduous forests during the monsoon months and the evergreen forests in the following months. Habits A forest butterfly, the brown awl favours openings and edges of deciduous and evergreen forests while its caterpillars are to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badamia Atrox
''Badamia'' is an Indoaustralian genus of skipper butterflies containing two species. The larvae feed on ''Terminalia'' (Combretaceae). Species The genus includes the following species: * '' Badamia atrox'' (Butler, 1877) (Fiji) * ''Badamia exclamationis'' (Fabricius, 1775) References * de Jong, R. & Treadaway, C. G. 2007 Hesperiidae of the Philippine Islands. ''In Butterflies of the World'', Supplement 15 (ed. E. Bauer & T. Frankenbach), pp. 1–72. Keltern: Goecke & Elvers. * Parsons M. 1999. ''The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology.'' Academic Press, San Diego. * Tennent, W. J. 2002. ''Butterflies of the Solomon Islands: systematics and biogeography''. Storm Entomological Publications, Dereham, Norfolk, U. K. External links * * Badamia at funetImages representing ''Badamia''at Consortium for the Barcode of Life The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminalia (plant)
''Terminalia'' is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising nearly 300 species distributed in Tropics, tropical regions of the world. The genus name derives from the Latin word ''terminus'', referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots. Terminalia latifolia, Axlewood (''T. latifolia'') is used for its wood and tannins and as a fodder. Terminalia leiocarpa, African birch (''T. leiocarpa'') is used for its wood and to make yellow dye and medicinal compounds. A yellow dyestuff produced from the leaves of ''T. leiocarpa'' has traditionally been used in West Africa to dye leather. Selected species There are 278 accepted ''Terminalia'' species as of July 2024 according to Plants of the World Online. Selected species include: *''Terminalia acuminata'' (Fr. Allem.) Eichl. *''Terminalia albida'' Scott-Elliot *''Terminalia amazonia'' (J.F.Gmel.) Exell – white olive *''Terminalia anogeissiana'' – axlew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coeliadinae
Coeliadinae is a subfamily of the skipper butterfly family (Hesperiidae). With about 150 described species, this is one of several smallish skipper butterfly subfamilies. It was first proposed by William Frederick Evans in 1937.Brower & Warren (2009) The subfamily is restricted to the Old World tropics. It comprises the most basal living lineage of skippers. In Coeliadinae the second segment of the palpi is erect and densely scaled, and the third segment is perpendicular to it, long, slender and without scales. Genera This subfamily was revised in 2009 by Hideyuki Chiba. According to his revision, the subfamily includes nine genera. * '' Allora'' Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 – 2 spp. * '' Badamia'' Moore, 1881 – 2 spp. * ''Bibasis'' Moore, 1881 – awlets; 5 spp. * ''Burara'' Swinhoe, 1893 – 14 spp. * '' Choaspes'' Moore, 1881 – 9 spp. * '' Coeliades'' Hübner, 1818 – policemen; 21 spp. * ''Hasora ''Hasora'', the awls, are a genus of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street, but that may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836. Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company Museum in London from 31 May 1848 on a "disestablished basis" and became a temporary writer and then an assistant curator at the East India Company Museum with a pension of £330 per annum from 31 December 1879. He had a daughter, Rosa Martha Moore. He began compiling ''Lepidoptera indica'' (1890–1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asia in 10 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe. Many of the plates were produced by his son while some others were produced by E C Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skipper Butterflies
Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilionoidea (the butterflies). They are named for their quick, darting flight habits. Most have their antenna tips modified into narrow, hook-like projections. Moreover, skippers mostly lack wing-coupling structure available in most moths. More than 3500 species of skippers are recognized, and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropical regions of Central and South America.Ackery et al. (1999) Description and systematics Traditionally, the Hesperiidae were placed in a monotypic superfamily Hesperioidea, because they are morphologically distinct from other Rhopalocera (butterflies), which mostly belong to the typical butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea. The third and rather small butterfly superfamily is the moth- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiji
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about . The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau. About 87% of the total population live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in the capital city of Suva, or in smaller urban centres such as Nadi (where tourism is the major local industry) or Lautoka (where the Sugarcane, sugar-cane industry is dominant). The interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited because of its terrain. The majority of Fiji's islands were formed by Volcano, volcanic activity starting around 150 million years ago. Some geothermal activity still occurs today on the islands of Vanua Levu and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consortium For The Barcode Of Life
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. Barcoding was proposed in 2003 by Prof. Paul Hebert of the University of Guelph in Ontario as a way of distinguishing and identifying species with a short standardized gene sequence. Hebert proposed the 658 bases of the Folmer region of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome-C oxidase-1 as the standard barcode region. Hebert is the Director of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, and the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL), all headquartered at the University of Guelph. The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is also located at the University of Guelph. CBOL was created in May 2004 with support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies Of Oceania
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossils have been dated to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago, though molecular evidence suggests that they likely originated in the Cretaceous. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, and like other holometabolous 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, expands its wings to dry, and flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the tropics, have several generations in a year, while others have a single generation, and a few in cold locations may take several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesperiidae Genera
Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilionoidea (the butterflies). They are named for their quick, darting flight habits. Most have their antenna tips modified into narrow, hook-like projections. Moreover, skippers mostly lack wing-coupling structure available in most moths. More than 3500 species of skippers are recognized, and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropical regions of Central and South America.Ackery et al. (1999) Description and systematics Traditionally, the Hesperiidae were placed in a monotypic superfamily Hesperioidea, because they are morphologically distinct from other Rhopalocera (butterflies), which mostly belong to the typical butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea. The third and rather small butterfly superfamily is the moth- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxa Named By Frederic Moore
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; : taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to remain at odds over what belongs to a taxon and the criteria used for inclusion, especially in the context of rank-based (" Linnaean") nomenclature (much less so under phylogenetic nomenclature). If a taxon is given a formal scientific name, its use is then governed by one of the nomenclature codes specifying which scientific name is correct for a particular grouping. Initial attempts at classifying and ordering organisms (plants and animals) were presumably set forth in prehistoric times by hunter-gatherers, as suggested by the fairly sophisticated folk taxonomies. Much later, Aristotle, and later still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
