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Class: Insecta.
Order: Coleoptera.
Suborder: Polyphaga.
Infraorder: Cucujiformia.
Superfamily: Cucujoidea.
Family: Coccinellidae.
Subfamily: Coccinellinae.
Tribe: Coccinellini.
La marieta és un insecte de la família dels Coccinèlids.
És arrodonida, de color vermell brillant amb set punts negres. Fa uns 5-8 mm de llargada.
Té sis potes i dues antenes curtes.
S'alimenta de petits insectes, pugons i àcars que viuen en les plantes.
La femella reparteix els ous en petits grups escampats per les plantes.
La larva és fosca i la pupa s'assembla a un excrement d'ocell.
Viu a les plantes de les que s'alimenta.
Per les articulacions de les potes deixa anar un líquid desagradable amb el que es defensa.
Hi ha diferents tipus de marietes; n'hi ha de color negre, vermell, taronja i groc, amb diferent quantitat de punts o ratlles.
Al món hi ha més de 5.000 espècies de marietes.
La mariquita es un insecto de la familia de los Coccinelidos.
Es redondeada, de color rojo brillante con siete puntos negros. Mide unos 5-8 mm de longitud.
Tiene seis patas y dos antenas cortas.
Se alimenta de pequeños insectos, pulgones y ácaros que viven en las plantas.
La hembra reparte los huevos en pequeños grupos esparcidos por las plantas.
La larva es oscura y la pupa se parece a un excremento de pájaro.
Vive en las plantas de las que se alimenta.
Por las articulaciones de las patas suelta un líquido desagradable con el que se defiende.
Hay diferentes tipos de mariquitas; las hay de color negro, rojo, naranja y amarillo, con diferente cantidad de puntos o rayas.
En el mundo hay más de 5.000 especies de mariquitas.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Geometridae, Geometrinae
Pingasa chloroides
Wong Lung Hang Road, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Platyptilia sp
Arthropoda, Hexapoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pterophoroidea, Petrophoroidae, Pterophorinae, Platyptiliini, Platipitilia
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Crambidae, Schoenobiinae
Scirpophaga nivella
a female (this individual had a anal tuft of yellow scales)
Mai Po Nature Reserve
New Territories
Hong Kong
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Crambidae, Spilomelinae
Cnaphalocrocis poeyalis
Tai Yeung Che, Lam Tsuen Valley
Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 (arthropods, Arthropoden)
Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816 (Sechsfüßer)
Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten)
Subclass: Pterygota LANG, 1888 (Fluginsekten)
Infraclass: Neoptera Martynov, 1923
Order: Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 (true flies, mosquitoes & gnats, Zweiflügler)
Suborder: Brachycera Schiner, 1862
Infraorder: Muscomorpha [Syn.: Cyclorrhapha]
Superfamily: Lauxanioidea
Family: Lauxaniidae MARCQUART, 1835 (Faulfliegen)
[det. "legrand", 2017, based on this photo via diptera.info]
Indonesia, W-Java, Tangerang: vic. Serpong, 50m asl., 02.11.2010
(IMG_6414)
Phylum: Arthropoda LATREILLE, 1829 (arthropods, Gliederfüßer)
Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816 (Sechsfüßer)
Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten)
Subclass: Pterygota LANG, 1888 (Fluginsekten)
Infraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923
Order: Coleoptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (beetles, Käfer)
Suborder: Polyphaga EMERY, 1886
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia CROWSON, 1960
Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea LATREILLE, 1802
Family: Scarabaeidae LATREILLE, 1802 (Scarab beetles, Blatthornkäfer)
Subfamily: Cetoniinae LEACH, 1815 (Fruit & Flower chafer, Rosenkäfer)
Tribus: Valgini MULSANT, 1842
Subtribus: Valgina MULSANT, 1842
Genus: Valgus L.G. SCRIBA, 1790
Valgus hemipterus LINNAEUS, 1758 (Stolperkäfer), ♂
some info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valgus_hemipterus
NE-Germay, Brandenburg: vic. Königs-Wusterhausen, 50m asl., 01.05.2012
IMG_0537
Lullymore Co.Kildare
Ireland 26-04-2021
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Pieridae
Genus:Gonepteryx
Species:G. rhamni
Binomial name
Gonepteryx rhamni
Habitat: This species is distributed locally where larval food plant is found, mainly in limestone areas of the midlands and west of Ireland.
It has only one annual brood.
Flight Times: The adult may be found at almost any time except mid-summer.
Larval food plants:
Buckthorn Rhamnus catharticus
Alder Buckthorn Frangula alnus
Hibernation: Overwinters as an adult butterfly
The male Brimstone is often found quite a long distance from its food plant.
The Brimstone hibernates as an adult but often comes out of hibernation on mild, sunny winter days returning later to resume hibernation.
Life Cycle of the Brimstone
Ovum:
The bottle shaped eggs are laid singly on the underside of leaves or shoots. They can be laid up to a height of 4 metres or more, between mid-April and the beginning of July, but peaking in May and early June.
They are c.1.3mm in height and initially nearly white in colour but after a few days become a deep yellow turning grey before hatching. The egg stage lasts c.2 weeks.
Larva:
The mature larva is between 32-34 mm in length with a green body which changes to a blue-green on the lateral surfaces above the white supra-spiracular line. The body is finely speckled with black bristles as is the green head. Larvae can be found in June and July. The early instar rests on the upper side
of the leaf along the midrid with it claspers at the base and feeds by eating down through the
layers leaving the characteristic holes, the later instar rests on the leaf edge or along a petiole
and eats the entire leaf. The larval stage lasts for c. 30 days.
Pupa:
When fully fed the larva leaves the food plant to pupate at a suitable site - generally the underside of a leaf or stem in low vegetation. The pupa is attached to the plant by the cresmater and supported by a loose silken girdle.
Pupation takes place in July and lasts c. 2 weeks.
Adult:
After emerging in early July the Brimstone butterfly is active untill the end of September but does not mate and lay eggs until the following spring. Instead it feeds extensively in order to fortify itself for hibernation.
It has a preference for purple and mauve flowers such as thistle, purple loosestrife, buddleia and teasle.
Towards the end of September it goes in search of a suitable hibernation site.
The upperside of the male Brimstone wings are a clear lemon yellow but the hindwings have a slightly greener hue. There is an orange spot in the centre of each forewing near the upper margin and in the centre of both hindwings, and a series of small brown spots along the wing margins at the termination of each vein.
The female Brimstone has much paler upper wings with a green tint.
Both male and female have sharply angled wings and prominent veins and when at rest the colour and shape of their closed wings closely resemble pale yellow leaves. This gives perfect camouflage while overwintering among the holly, ivy or bramble leaves between September and May.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Nolidae, Nolinae, Nolini
Manoba tristicta
Tai Yeung Che, Lam Tsuen Valley, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Calopterygidae
Genus: Calopteryx
Species: C. virgo
Binomial name
Calopteryx virgo
The male usually has much more extensive pigmentation on the wings than other Calopteryx species in its range: in the south east of its range (the Balkans and Turkey) the wings are entirely metallic blue while in other areas, there are clear areas at the base and tip of the wing. Immature insects often have much paler, browner wings. They have metallic blue-green bodies and blue-green eyes.
The female has dark brown iridescent wings, a white patch near the tip of the wings (called a pseudopterostigma) and a metallic green body with a bronze tip of the abdomen
Females lay up to 300 eggs at a time on emergent or floating plants, often on water-crowfoot. Like the banded demoiselle, they often submerge to do so. The eggs hatch after around 14 days. Again, like the banded demoiselle, the larva is stick-like with long legs and develops over a period of two years in submerged vegetation, plant debris or roots. They usually overwinter in mud or slime.
The larvae of the beautiful demoiselle develop over 10 to 12 stages, each of which takes place between a molt. The body length is variable and highly dependent on environmental conditions. The final stage (F-0-stage) larvae are 3.5 to 4.6 millimeters and weigh about 4 milligrams, slightly below the banded demoiselle. Apart from the larvae of the demoiselles are difficult to distinguish from each other, the apparent differences lie mainly in the bristles and the severity of the tracheal gills on their abdomen. Compared to other damselflies demoiselles larvae fall immediately on the other hand, due to their much shorter mean gill lamella.
The body of the larvae shows only a relatively small adjustment to the fast-flowing waters of their habitat. The body is not flattened but very slim and turning around, the legs are long and have its end with strong claws, with which it can be stated in the vegetation. Because they reside within the water body, but mainly in the quieter areas, the danger of being swept with the flow, is relatively low. If this happens, they clearly its long body and legs stretched as far as possible to get in touch with the vegetation or the substrate to come.
The distribution of the beautiful demoiselle covers all of Europe with the exception of the southwestern Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and Iceland. In the north it extends to the Arctic polar sea, and thus much further north than that of the banded demoiselle. On the North African Mediterranean coast, its southern populations in Morocco and Algeria can be found.[1] The northern boundary in Asia following the 13-°C July isotherm, it is therefore not in the areas where the average temperature in summer below 13 °C falls, otherwise they are met with in temperate and cool regions in the entire continent with the exception of deserts and the mountains of. The eastern subspecies of C. v. japonica found on the Japanese islands is under debate as to whether it is a separate species. The beautiful demoiselle is mostly found in lowland locations. Regular findings come from areas up to a maximum height of 980 m above sea level. Occasionally they may be found up to 1,200 meters in altitude, such as in the Alps.
The blue-winged demoiselle lives mainly near small to medium sized streams and creeks. They prefer a relatively low water temperature and a moderate to fast flow. The water must not be nutrient rich (eutrophic). In the northern part of their range, such as in Norway and Finland, it is also found near medium-sized rivers or even larger streams. The waters are usually in the immediate vicinity of forests.
The larvae live in the streams mentioned before and are mainly dependent on the water plants. The larvae need the stems and leaves, especially in areas with stronger currents to hold on. Hence it is extremely rare to find them in barren locations, flat expiring banks, or areas with a smooth stone floor. They also live in small natural lakes or ponds characteristic for limestones bedrock. They live in quieter areas between alluvial leaves or on exposed roots of the vegetation. They can be found on submerged plants such as waterweed (Elodea sp.), floods for water crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans) or other plants,submerged from a few centimetres to several decimetres. Compared with the larvae of the banded demoiselle the larvae of the blue-wing demoiselle prefer quieter areas of the water, since slower flow causes a more effective absorption of oxygen under water. Only in very rare cases the larvae are present in stagnant water. The substrate of the river has only a very minor importance, because the larvae reside mainly in the vegetation. An important factor for the occurrence of blue-wing demoiselles is the oxygen in the water. The larvae is much more sensitive to oxygen deficiency than the larvae of the banded demoiselle, hence it needs a sufficient oxygen saturation of the water. Waters with high levels of sediment and sludge, which is consumed by bacterial decomposition of oxygen are, accordingly not as a habitat for the larvae. This sensitivity qualifies it in water chemistry as a bioindicator for the assessment of water quality. Thus they will be an indication of value in the saprobic assigned of 1.9, which represents a low to moderately polluted waters type (β-mesosaprob) and a water quality class from I to II does. Another key factor for the occurrence of the larvae of the blue-wing demoiselle is the temperature of the water. This species prefers unlike the banded demoiselle, mainly the cooler and shadier areas of the water. The optimal temperature is a summer average 13 to 18 °C. At temperatures above 22 °C were often injuries of larvae observed and also a reduced hatch ability of eggs. The main reason is the oxygen content under higher temperatures. Individual populations may get used to permanently higher temperatures.
The habitat that the adults occupy, corresponds to the nearby larval habitat. Unlike the adults of the banded demoiselle you meet those of the beautiful demoiselle but also in forest clearings, but very rarely on the banks of larger ponds. As resting places, the animals need trees and shrubs, often resting on high herbaceous plants such as the large nettle ( Urtica Dioica ). The breeding habitats are similar to the Larval habitat, these are cool, shady water-courses largely with a more or less strong current and near-natural vegetation and bank structure. This is mostly meadow and pasture streams in the area, they rarely pass through the forest. A distinct riparian vegetation also plays a role as a windbreak. Due to their broad wings the beautiful demoiselle can be blown away by the wind more easily than other species of dragonflies.
Males are territorial, perching in bankside plants and trees. They chase passing insects, often returning to the same perch. Males can stray well away from water, females live away from water unless egg-laying or seeking a mate.
As with the banded demoiselle is also in the blue wing-demoiselle a pronounced territorial behavior of sexually mature males. These days occupy territories that they defend against other males. The defense consists mostly in threatening gestures. For this they spread their wings and put them on display so clearly visible, there is also Drohflügen and in rare cases to air combat between rival males. Optimal areas correspond to the optimal nesting places for the females and are characterized by a normally increased flow and a suitable oviposition substrate in the potential breeding sites from. The size of the spots and their distance apart is the density of the population dependent as well as the occurrences of the water and may be between several meters and a few decimetres. Males who do not occupy spots can keep themselves in the vegetation on the shore and try to mate with fly to females or to fill vacant spots. Especially when only a few males are present, the territorial defense is very aggressive, with a higher number of competing male aggression but decreases significantly. The males sit in their areas mostly in exposed places in the vegetation, which extends over the water, sometimes on vegetation or rocks cushions amid the waters. This seat is waiting at the same time the center of the district they do their gaze primarily on the aquatic center and will show a behavior that is referred to as "wingclapping" and in which the wings beat quickly down and slowly lifted. It is believed that it is mainly used for communication, it also supports the ventilation in the thorax and accordingly probably also plays a role in thermoregulation of the animals
25-08-2019
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
Genus:Thecla
Species:T. betulae
Binomial name
Thecla betulae
Stiallach Donn [IRL]
Thécla du bouleau [F]
Nierenfleck [D]
Wood edges.
Only in the Burren and surrounding region.
Blackthorn.
38-42mm (1.50 inches)
This butterfly is very rare, found only within the Burren and neighbouring counties. It has dark brown wings , the female having an orange patch on each hindwing.
It is quite difficult to see as it usually frequents the tops of trees and shrubs, usually blackthorn.
A little butterfly that is found along hedges, scrub, and wood edges but is often overlooked since it spends much of its time high in the tree canopy. Like the purple emperor this butterfly uses 'master trees', usually European ash (Fraxinus excelsior). Males and unmated females congregate at the tops of isolated trees. Once mated the female descends to lower levels to begin laying her eggs. Males rarely descend and both feed mainly on honeydew. Both sexes are dark brown on the upperside with orange tails. The female also has a bright orange band across both forewings. The undersides are similar in both sexes and are bright orange with two white streaks
In Ireland the female lays her eggs on blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) in late August which overwinter, hatching the following spring when the buds are breaking. It has been found that the best way to find breeding sites for this species is to look for the conspicuous white eggs in the winter. The larvae are extremely well camouflaged and feed only at night, remaining motionless during the day. Pupation takes place in leaf litter on the ground in late June or early July and are attractive to ants who will bury them in shallow cells.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Nolidae, Chloephorinae, Sarrothripini
Gyrtothripa pusilla
Tai Yeung Che, Lam Tsuen Valley, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
"Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains."
— Kobayashi Issa
"He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal."
— Tom Robbins
Amazing Flying Insect and Steampunk creation made with the Victorian Era in mind....and constructed with...2 Antiqued Brass filigree Circles....Vintage Bulova Watch work with intact rubies and embellished with a Swarovski crystal....Antiqued brass dragonfly...2 glass ladybugs....brass ox Bee....brass ox Butterly...Crazy lace Agate Round....Oxidized Brass Tulip....Vintage Pearl Drop....All secured with Oxidized brass wire and a Lobster Clasp~
I haven't a clue what it is, except it's Hemiptera (originally thinking it a beetle and Coleoptera... wellll...; I'll stick with plants methinks.)
Update: thanks to the link provided through a comment, I have a clue: green metallic shield bug, Scutiphora pedicellata.
25-08-2019
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
Genus:Thecla
Species:T. betulae
Binomial name
Thecla betulae
Stiallach Donn [IRL]
Thécla du bouleau [F]
Nierenfleck [D]
Wood edges.
Only in the Burren and surrounding region.
Blackthorn.
38-42mm (1.50 inches)
This butterfly is very rare, found only within the Burren and neighbouring counties. It has dark brown wings , the female having an orange patch on each hindwing.
It is quite difficult to see as it usually frequents the tops of trees and shrubs, usually blackthorn.
A little butterfly that is found along hedges, scrub, and wood edges but is often overlooked since it spends much of its time high in the tree canopy. Like the purple emperor this butterfly uses 'master trees', usually European ash (Fraxinus excelsior). Males and unmated females congregate at the tops of isolated trees. Once mated the female descends to lower levels to begin laying her eggs. Males rarely descend and both feed mainly on honeydew. Both sexes are dark brown on the upperside with orange tails. The female also has a bright orange band across both forewings. The undersides are similar in both sexes and are bright orange with two white streaks
In Ireland the female lays her eggs on blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) in late August which overwinter, hatching the following spring when the buds are breaking. It has been found that the best way to find breeding sites for this species is to look for the conspicuous white eggs in the winter. The larvae are extremely well camouflaged and feed only at night, remaining motionless during the day. Pupation takes place in leaf litter on the ground in late June or early July and are attractive to ants who will bury them in shallow cells.
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Erebidae, Erebinae
Erebus ephesperis
Tai Po Kau Headland, New Territories, Hong Kong
recorded during a "National Moth Week" event
head on view to show the use of the "moth comb" (the epiphysis) for cleaning the antennae