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Eucnemis Capucina
''Eucnemis'' is a genus of mostly Palaearctic click beetle allies in the subfamily Eucneminae, erected by August Ahrens in 1812.Ahrens A (1812) ''Beiträge zur Kenntniss deutscher Käfer. Neue Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle Bd.'' 2(2): 1-40. Species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around ... lists:Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Eucnemis'' Ahrens, 1812 (retrieved 1 January 2025) # '' Eucnemis americana'' # ... [...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 har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Siberian region; the Mediterranean Basin; the Sahara and Arabian Deserts; and Western, Central and East Asia. The Palaearctic realm also has numerous rivers and lakes, forming several freshwater ecoregions. The term 'Palearctic' was first used in the 19th century, and is still in use as the basis for zoogeographic classification. History In an 1858 paper for the ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society'', British zoologist Philip Sclater first identified six terrestrial zoogeographic realms of the world: Palaearctic, Aethiopian/ Afrotropic, Indian/ Indomalayan, Australasian, Nearctic, and Neotropical. The six indicated general groupings of fauna, based on shared biogeography and large-scale geographic barriers to migration. Alfre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elateroidea
The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species. Description Elateroidea is a morphologically diverse group, including hard-bodied beetles with 5 abdominal ventrites, soft-bodied beetles with 7-8 ventrites connected with membranes (formerly known as cantharoids), and beetles with intermediate forms. They have a range of sizes and colours, but in terms of shape, they are usually narrow and parallel-sided as adults. Many of the sclerotised elateroids ( Cerophytidae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, Elateridae) have a clicking mechanism. This is a peg on the prothorax which fits into a cavity in the mesothorax. When a click beetle bends its body, the peg snaps into the cavity, causing the beetle's body to straighten so suddenly that it jumps into the air. Most beetles capable of bioluminescence are in the Elateroidea, in the families Lampyridae (~2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Ahrens
August Ahrens (1779, Walbeck – 28 November 1841, Hettstedt) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Works Partial list *Ahrens, A. 1811: Beschreibung der großen Wasserkaeferarten der Gegend um Halle in Sachsen. ''Neue Schriften der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle'', Halle – 1 (1809–1811) (6) 47-5 *Ahrens, A. 1812. Beiträge zur Kenntniss deutscher Käfer.'' Neueste Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle'' 2: 1–40 *Ahrens, A. 1812–1814: ''Fauna Insectorum Europae''. Halae, C. A. Kümmel (Fasc. 1–2) je 5p., je 25 col. Taf. *Ahrens, A. 1829: Kritische Revision der Norddeutschen Käferfauna.arabici The Arabici (meaning "Arabians") were a small Christian sect of the 3rd century. The name of their founder is lost to history. Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August ... itgeteilt von Thon – ''Entomologisches Archiv''(Herausgeber T. Thon), Jena – 2 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data. The mission of the GBIF is to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to underpin sustainable development. Priorities, with an emphasis on promoting participation and working through partners, include mobilising biodiversity data, developing protocols and standards to ensure scientific integrity and interoperability, building an informatics architecture to allow the interlinking of diverse data types from disparate sources, promoting capacity building and ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucnemidae
Eucnemidae, or false click beetles, are a family of elateroid beetles including about 1700 species distributed worldwide. Description Closely related to the family Elateridae, specimens of Eucnemidae can reach a length of . Bodies are slightly flattened and convex. The upper surfaces of the body usually has hairs, setae or scales. Ecology The larvae are typically legless, and generally develop feeding on the fluids of rotting wood, likely vomiting digestive enzymes into the wood to break apart the fungal hyphae, moving using their shovel shaped heads to force apart the wood. Adults, which are typically found on broken surfaces of trunks and stumps, have a short lifespan and it is unclear whether they feed, though they are capable fliers, and like some other elateroids are capable of clicking. Taxonomy Subfamilies * Anischiinae Fleutiaux, 1936 * Eucneminae Eschscholtz, 1829 * Macraulacinae Fleutiaux, 1922 * Melasinae Leach, 1817 * Palaeoxeninae Muona, 1993 * Perot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
