"Coccinellidae Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from 0.8 to 18 mm (0.03 to 0.71 inches). The family is commonly known as ladybugs in North America, and ladybirds in Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world. Entomologists widely prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as these insects are not classified as true bugs. The majority of coccinellid species are generally considered useful insects, because many species prey on herbivorous homopterans such as aphids or scale insects, which are agricultural pests. Many coccinellids lay their eggs directly in aphid and scale insect"
"Epilachninae The Epilachninae are a subfamily of the family of lady beetles, the Coccinellidae, in the order Coleoptera. Superficially, they look much like other ladybirds in the larger subfamily Coccinellinae, but they differ importantly in their biology, in that the members of the subfamily are largely or completely leaf-feeding herbivores rather than being predators. Accordingly, several members of the subfamily are crop pests, and sometimes cause locally serious crop losses. The Epilachninae constitute about 16% of the described species of the Coccinellidae. Their identification is no problem in the field when examining routine crop damage, because they are selective feeders,"
"Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata (the 24-spot ladybird) is a beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is the only member of the genus Subcoccinella. It has the typical, almost semi-spherical, ladybird shape and is patterned with spots. However it differs from many of the well-known ladybirds in being neither smooth and shiny nor an eater of aphids: the wing-cases look velvety and it eats fungal moulds on plants. The common names for this insect in many languages follow the binomial name and mention that it has twenty-four spots, but in English there is great variation in how this is written, with"
"Coccinella transversalis Coccinella transversalis, commonly known as the transverse ladybird or transverse lady beetle is a species of ladybird beetle found from India across southern and southeastern Asia to Malesia and Australia. It is not to be confused with ""Coccinella transversoguttata"", a widespread species in Europe and North America also known as the transverse ladybird. The alternative vernacular of small transverse ladybird may be used for ""C. transversalis"" in instances where these two species are discussed together. The transverse ladybird was first described by Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781 as ""Coccinella transversalis"" and still bears its original name."
"ladybeetle. It earns this name as it often invades homes during October, in order to prepare for overwintering. When the species first arrived in the UK, it was labelled in jest as the ""many-named ladybird"" due to the great quantity of vernacular names. Among those already listed other names include multivariate, southern, Japanese, and pumpkin ladybird. ""Harmonia axyridis"" is a typical coccinellid beetle in shape and structure, being domed and having a ""smooth"" transition between its elytra (wing coverings), pronotum, and head. It ranges from 5.5–8.5mm in size. The common color form, f. ""succinea"", is orange or red in colouration"
"Dinocampus coccinellae Dinocampus coccinellae is a braconid wasp parasite of coccinellid beetles, including the spotted lady beetle, ""Coleomegilla maculata"". ""D. coccinellae"" has been described as turning its ladybird host into a temporary ""zombie"" guarding the wasp cocoon. About 25% of ladybirds recover after the cocoon they are guarding matures. In 1802, Schrank first described a female adult of this species as ""Lady-bird killer 2155. Deep black, eyes green; head, front legs, and apex of the petiolate abdomen mussel-brown."" (A petiolate abdomen is one whose basal segment is stalk-like, that is, long and slender.) Nearly all ""D. coccinellae"" are female offspring"
"psyllid (""Diaphorina citri""), the cotton bollworm (""Helicoverpa armigera""), and oriental leafworm moth (""Spodoptera litura""). Coccinella transversalis Coccinella transversalis, commonly known as the transverse ladybird or transverse lady beetle is a species of ladybird beetle found from India across southern and southeastern Asia to Malesia and Australia. It is not to be confused with ""Coccinella transversoguttata"", a widespread species in Europe and North America also known as the transverse ladybird. The alternative vernacular of small transverse ladybird may be used for ""C. transversalis"" in instances where these two species are discussed together. The transverse ladybird was first described by Danish zoologist"
"Aquilegia Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, columbine) is a genus of about 60–70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers. The genus name ""Aquilegia"" is derived from the Latin word for eagle (""aquila""), because of the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name ""columbine"" comes from the Latin for ""dove"", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. The leaves of this plant are compound and the"
"and females deposit eggs on the upper sides of leaves along streams; (9) quadratojugal bone is articulating with maxilla. Currently nine species are placed in this genus: The AmphibiaWeb lists 18 ""Cochranella"" species, including ones that the Amphibian Species of the World considers as having uncertain placement within the subfamily Centroleninae (""Incertae Sedis""). Cochranella Cochranella is a genus of glass frogs, family Centrolenidae. They are found in Central America from Honduras southward to the Amazonian and Andean cloud forests of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The generic name ""Cochranella"" honors Doris Mable Cochran, an American herpetologist. Accordingly, common name Cochran"
"curved. The antennae are a little shorter than the head and are composed of eleven segments. The three last segments are thickened at the tip and form a club. Harmonia (beetle) Harmonia is a genus of lady beetles belonging to the subfamily Coccinellinae. The distinction of the individual species within the genus is often very difficult, and in some cases requires examination of the reproductive system. The coloring and drawing in the genus ""Harmonia ""are very variable, not only between species, but also within each species. The basic color of the elytra is usually red to orange with black spots."
"Coleomegilla maculata Coleomegilla maculata, commonly known as the spotted lady beetle, pink spotted lady beetle or twelve-spotted lady beetle, is a large coccinellid beetle native to North America. The adults and larvae feed primarily on aphids and the species has been used as a biological control agent. Based on name connotation and to avoid confusion with other species also called ""spotted ladybeetle"", spotted pink ladybeetle is probably the most appropriate common name for this species. This is generally an oblong, flattened lady beetle species averaging about six millimetres long. Over most of its range the species is pink in coloration,"
"Bovidae The Bovidae are the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes bison, African buffalo, water buffalo, antelopes, wildebeest, impala, gazelles, sheep, goats, muskoxen, and domestic cattle. A member of this family is called a bovid. With 143 extant species and 300 known extinct species, the family Bovidae consists of eight major subfamilies apart from the disputed Peleinae and Pantholopinae. The family evolved 20 million years ago, in the early Miocene. The bovids show great variation in size and pelage colouration. Excepting some domesticated forms, all male bovids have two or more horns, and in many species females possess"
"Homininae Homininae, also called ""African hominids"" or ""African apes"", is a subfamily of Hominidae. It includes two tribes, with their extant as well as extinct species: 1) the Hominini tribe (with the genus ""Homo"" including modern humans, Australopithecina, comprising at least three extinct (or, fossil) genera, and the genus ""Pan"" (chimpanzees - including common chimpanzees and bonobos); 2) the Gorillini tribe (gorillas). It comprises all hominids that arose after orangutans (subfamily Ponginae) split from the line of great apes. The Homininae cladogram has three main branches, which lead to gorillas (through the tribe Gorillini), and to humans and chimpanzees via"
"Females are ovoviviparous, meaning they form eggs but do not lay them. The young ""hatch"" within her body and she bears them live. There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus: Two fossil species, ""T. acarinata"" and ""T. pessanti"" , are known from the Eocene of southwestern France. Torpedo (genus) Torpedo is a genus of rays, commonly known as electric rays, torpedo rays, or torpedoes. They are slow-moving bottom-dwellers capable of generating electricity as a defense and feeding mechanism. The naval weapon known as the torpedo was named after this genus, whose own name is derived from the Latin"
"are on. The species of the tribe Scymnini are distributed worldwide. They feed on spider mites , scale insects, Aledyrodoid moths and aphids. The beetles lay their eggs on leaves, which are infested with the lice or mites. These are not only predatory as adults but also as larvae. The Scymnini were nomenclatured for a long time under the name Scymninae as one of numerous subfamilies of ladybugs. In 2007 was Adam Ślipiński proposed a new system, which contains only two subfamilies. Under that system, the Scymnini belong to the subfamily as Tribe Coccinellinae. The internal and external classification of"
"group of predators that plays a key role in suppression of populations of soybean aphids in North America is lady beetles (Coccinellidae spp.). Some prevalent species in soybean include the twospotted lady beetle (""Adalia bipunctata"" L.), the sevenspotted lady beetle (""Coccinella septempunctata"" L.), the spotted lady beetle (""Coleomegilla maculata"" De Geer), the polished lady beetle (""Cycloneda munda"" (Say)), the multicolored Asian lady beetle (""Harmonia axyridis"" (Pallas)), the convergent lady beetle (""Hippodamia convergens"" Guérin-Méneville), and the thirteen spotted lady beetle (""Hippodamia tredecimpunctata"" L.). Evidence suggests that populations of lady beetles can respond to increases in populations of soybean aphids in soybean."
"Latreille in 1829, from an Ecclesiastical Latin word, ultimately from the Greek , meaning ""commune""; despite ending in a vowel, the genus is masculine in gender. Coenobita The genus Coenobita contains the sixteen species of terrestrial hermit crabs. ""Coenobita"" species carry water in the gastropod shells they inhabit, allowing them to stay out of water for a long time. The majority of the species are found in the Indo-Pacific region, with only one species in West Africa, one species occurring along the western Atlantic Ocean, and one species occurring on the Pacific coast of the Americas. ""Coenobita"" is closely related"
"the male. The genus ""Ischnura"" includes the following species: Ischnura Ischnura is a genus of damselflies known as forktails in the family Coenagrionidae. Forktails are distributed worldwide, including various oceanic islands. The males have a forked projection at the tip of the abdomen which gives the group their common name. Forktails are small or very small damselflies. The compound eyes of mature individuals have a dark upper region and contrasting lower part. The thorax is often green and may have lateral stripes and the abdomen in males is black with a blue tip. Females of some species are polymorphic, some"
"as gleaning). The Cordulegastridae usually lay their eggs in the sand in shallow water, the female hovering just above the water with her body in a vertical position, and making repeated dips into the water with her abdomen. The family is distributed worldwide; all eight species in North America belong to the genus ""Cordulegaster"". The name Cordulegastridae comes from the Greek ""kordylinus"", 'club-shaped' and ""gaster"", belly. The common name spiketails refers to the females' prominent ovipositors. Cordulegastridae The Cordulegastridae are a family of Odonata (dragonflies) from the suborder Anisoptera. They are commonly known as spiketails. Some vernacular names for the"
"the traits of ""Amborella trichopoda"" are regarded as providing significant insight into the evolution of flowering plants, they are a mix of plesiomorphic (archaic) and apomorphic (derived) features that have only been sorted out via comparison with other angiosperms and their positions within the phylogenetic tree (the fossil record could potentially also be helpful in this respect, but is absent in this case). Within the primate family Hominidae (great apes), gorillas (eastern and western) are a sister group to common chimpanzees, bonobos and humans. These five species form a clade, the subfamily Homininae (African apes), of which ""Gorilla"" is the"
"Scymnini within this new subfamily needs to be investigated in more detail. Preliminary molecular studies have shown that the family is probably paraphyletic. Scymnini The Scymnini are a tribe of insects within the Coccinellidae family. This group includes many small species that are commonly known as dusky ladybugs. The adult beetles of Scymnini are small, typically one or two millimeters long. Their body is hemispherically domed and is almost always covered with dense hair. Only a few species have a smooth and glossy back surface. Many species can be identified by their characteristic pattern and their size, however examination under"
"are carried in female reproductive organs and eggs of Collembola. Feminizing ""Wolbachia"" species are widespread in arthropods and nematodes, where they co-evolved with most of their lineages. Springtail Springtails (Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects (the other two are the Protura and Diplura). Although the three orders are sometimes grouped together in a class called Entognatha because they have internal mouthparts, they do not appear to be any more closely related to one another than they all are to insects, which have external mouthparts. Some DNA sequence studies suggest"
"little consensus over the use of words or numerals, capitalisation, placement of hyphens and whether to use ""spot"", ""spotted"", ""point"" or ""pointed""; ""ladybird"", ""ladybird beetle"" or ""ladybug"". There is even disagreement about the spelling of the Latin """"vigintiquatuorpunctata"""" with some authoritative UK lists preferring a double ""t"": """"vigintiquattuopunctata"""". For ease it is often written """"Subcoccinella 24-punctata"""". Given the multitude of name formations, it is probably best to use just the genus """"Subcoccinella"""" when carrying out a web search for information about this insect to avoid missing texts that use variant spellings - it's the only species in the genus. In"
"Coquillettidia Coquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its ""peculiar"" male genitalia. The specific epithet honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett. The genus comprises three subgenera, ""Austromansonia"", ""Coquillettidia"", and ""Rhynochotaenia"", and 57 species, of which ""Coquillettidia perturbans"" is perhaps the best known. Not all species have been well documented, but females of some are known to feed primarily on birds but will also bite cattle. The females bite primarily at night, and are most active during the early part of the night. They occasionally attack humans during"
"Cochranella Cochranella is a genus of glass frogs, family Centrolenidae. They are found in Central America from Honduras southward to the Amazonian and Andean cloud forests of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The generic name ""Cochranella"" honors Doris Mable Cochran, an American herpetologist. Accordingly, common name Cochran frogs has been coined for the genus. ""Cochranella"" was first described by Edward Harrison Taylor in 1951. The current delimitation of this genus follows from the work by Juan Manuel Guayasamin and his colleagues published in 2009 (with some later adjustments). These authors remedied the polyphyly of the genus by partitioning it into"
"the mouth are two hooked chaetae and one or two nephridial pores. The gut is much longer than the body and is folded and coiled inside the coelom (body cavity). The anus is at the posterior end of the body and two anal vesicles with ciliated funnels open into the cloaca. In the family Bonelliidae, the females are very much larger than the dwarf males, and in most, if not all, instances the males live on or inside the female. The anal vesicles of the females are sac-like and bear the ciliated funnels on tubules, which branch in most genera."
"often conspicuously coloured yellow, orange, or red with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, heads and antennae. There is, however, great variation in these colour patterns. For example, a minority of species, such as ""Vibidia duodecimguttata"", a twelve-spotted species, have whitish spots on a brown background. Coccinellids are found worldwide, with over 6,000 species described. Most coccinellids have round to elliptical, dome-shaped bodies with six short legs. Depending on the species, they can have spots, stripes, or no markings at all. Seven-spotted coccinellids are red or orange with three spots on each side and one in"
"Alchemilla Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Rosaceae, with the common name ""lady's mantle"" applied generically as well as specifically to ""Alchemilla mollis"" when referred to as garden plant, the plant used as herbal tea or for medicinal usage such as gynaecological disorders is ""Alchemilla xanthochlora"" or in Middle Europe the so-called common lady's mantle ""Alchemilla vulgaris"". There are about 300 species, the majority native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe and Asia, with a few species native to the mountains of Africa and the Americas. Most species of ""Alchemilla"" are clump-forming or"
"Coccinella septempunctata Coccinella septempunctata, the seven-spot ladybird (or, in North America, seven-spotted ladybug or ""C-7""), is the most common ladybird in Europe. Its elytra are of a red colour, but punctuated with three black spots each, with one further spot being spread over the junction of the two, making a total of seven spots, from which the species derives both its common and scientific names (from the Latin ' = ""seven"" and ' = ""spot""). ""C. septempunctata"" has a broad ecological range, generally living where there are aphids for it to eat. and including, amongst other biotopes meadows, fields, Pontic–Caspian"
"Ricinulei The order Ricinulei is a group of arachnids known as hooded tickspiders, though they are not true spiders. Like most arachnids, they are predatory, eating small arthropods. In older works they are sometimes referred to as Podogona. , 58 extant species of ricinuleids have been described worldwide, all in the single family Ricinoididae. They occur today in west-central Africa (""Ricinoides"") and the Neotropical region (""Cryptocellus"" and ""Pseudocellus""). In addition to the three living genera, there are two families and four genera containing fossil species. The most important general account of ricinuleid anatomy remains the 1904 monograph by Hans Jacob"
"example, ""Coleomegilla"" species are significant predators of the eggs and larvae of moths such as species of ""Spodoptera"" and the Plutellidae. Larvae and eggs of ladybirds, either their own or of other species, can also be an important cannibalistic food resource when alternative prey are scarce. As a family, the Coccinellidae used to be regarded as purely carnivorous, but they are now known to be far more omnivorous than previously thought, both as a family and in individual species; examination of gut contents of apparently specialist predators commonly yield residues of pollen and other plant materials. Besides the prey they"
"but does not in gorillas and is quite uncommon in other primates (and other mammal groups). Homininae Homininae, also called ""African hominids"" or ""African apes"", is a subfamily of Hominidae. It includes two tribes, with their extant as well as extinct species: 1) the Hominini tribe (with the genus ""Homo"" including modern humans, Australopithecina, comprising at least three extinct (or, fossil) genera, and the genus ""Pan"" (chimpanzees - including common chimpanzees and bonobos); 2) the Gorillini tribe (gorillas). It comprises all hominids that arose after orangutans (subfamily Ponginae) split from the line of great apes. The Homininae cladogram has three"
"logging, and human settlements. Cochranella balionota ""Cochranella"" balionota is a species of frog in the family Centrolenidae. While it is here placed in the genus ""Cochranella"", its placement within the subfamily Centroleninae is uncertain (""incertae sedis""). It is found in the Andes of Colombia (Cordillera Occidental: Cauca and Valle del Cauca Departments) and Ecuador (Carchi and Pichincha Provinces). Common names Mindo Cochran frog and mottled glassfrog has been coined for it. Adult males measure in snout–vent length. The head is much wider than the body and the snout is truncate. The fingers have later fringes and some webbing between the"