I mean, she's obviously talking around the subject, but she doesn't really discuss the disappearance of 50 percent of flora and faunae on the planet over the last 50 years and the implications for human populations.
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StephanusPanzer GWF (1801) Faunae Insectorum Germanicae initia 7: 76. Nürnberg. is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Stephanidae. Records of species are from Europe and Asia.Aguiar AP (2004) World catalogue of the Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea).
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Mikan was a professor of natural history at the University of Prague. He was one of three leading naturalists on the Austrian Brazil Expedition. He wrote Monographia Bombyliorum Bohemiæ, iconibus illustrata in 1796, Entomologische Beobachtungen, Berichtigungen und Entdeckungen in 1797, and Delectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis, etc. in 1820.
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Christian Daniel Zenker (1766–1819) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He contributed species descriptions to Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer's Faunae insectorum germanicae initia (Elements of the insect fauna of Germany). He was Hofmarschall for the Kingdom of Saxony. His collection is held by the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden.
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Other parts of West Australia were also inhabited during the Cenomanian by ichthyosaurs like Platypterygius. Benthic faunae were rare around this time, especially in the more northern waters Cardabiodon inhabited. This was due mostly to lower oxygen levels caused by the Cenomanian-Turonian anoxic event which led to the extinction of as much as 27% of all marine invertebrates.
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Rhagonycha limbata Rhagonychavon Eschscholtz JF (1830) Nova genera Coleopterorum Faunae Europaeae. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2(1): 63–66. is a genus of soldier beetle belonging to the family Cantharidae. There are at least 140 described species recorded from Europe, North America and Japan, and thought to date from the Upper Eocene to recent periods.BioLib.
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Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis was first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén (1764–1830), a Swedish botanist and entomologist, in 1817 during his tenure at Lund University between 1814–1827. Fallén first named this species Musca haemorrhoidalis in 1817 not knowing that Charles Joseph de VillersVillers, C.J. de. 1789. Caroli Linnaei entomologia, faunae suecicae descriptionibus aucta; D. D. Scopoli, Geoffroy, De Geer, Fabricii, Schrank, &c.; .... Vol. 3.
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Often the faunae associated with phytotelmata are unique: Different groups of microcrustaceans occur in phytotelmata, including ostracods (Elpidium spp. Metacypris bromeliarum), harpacticoid copepods (Bryocamptus spp, Moraria arboricola, Attheyella spp.) and cyclopoid copepods (Bryocyclops spp.,Tropocyclops jamaicensis). In tropical and subtropical rainforest habitats, many species of frogs specialize on phytotelma as a readily available breeding ground, such as some microhylids (in pitcher plants), poison dart frogs and some tree frogs (in bromeliads).
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Flaminio Baudi di Selve (7 July 1821, Savigliano – 26 June 1901, Genoa) was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera but also Heteroptera. He wrote Europae et circummediterraneae Faunae Tenebrionidum specierum, quae Comes Dejean in suo Catalogo, editio 3, consignavit, ejusdem collectione in R. Taurinensi Musaeo asservata, cum auctorum hodierne recepta denominatione collatio. Pars tertia. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 20: 225-267 (1876), Catalogo dei coleotteri del Piemonte Torino, Tip. e. Lit.
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Woody vegetation is necessary to attract seed-dispersing faunae, and for soil development, thus facilitating further the spread of woody shrubs and trees. In this way wallrows are strikingly similar to North American fencerows, though the obvious difference remains that fencerows are based along a wooden fence or under telegraph lines, and wallrows along a field boundary stone wall. Wallrows are common in Ireland, especially where fields are abandoned or under-managed.
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This suggests a niche partitioning between them, although it is as yet unclear how this correlates with differences in prey preference and hunting techniques. This reflects a pattern seen in other Late Cretaceous faunae which also show a combination of a large azhdarchid species with a smaller one. The Javelina Formation from the Maastrichtian of Texas has brought forth the giant Quetzalcoatlus northropi but also a smaller Quetzalcoatlus sp. and the azhdarchoid represented by specimen TMM 42489-2.
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The relative simplicity of growth and ability for the plant to adapt to a wide range of soils makes Frankenia Pauciflora an attractive choice for home gardening. Its flame-retardant properties also provide reduced chances of bush-fire spread in risk zones such as Australia when planted surrounding homes. Frankenia pauciflora provides shelter for many faunae as well as being a food source for a number of insects. Its thick network of fine roots are also useful for providing stability in sediments and floodplains.
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However, it became clear that the co-extinction of hosts and their specific parasites is likely to increase the current estimates of extinction rates significantly. A decade later, a study focusing on highly host-specific groups such as fig wasps, parasites, butterflies, and myrmecophil butterflies estimated the number of parasites put at risk by the endangered status of the host at about 6300. Other authors argued that host-specific parasite faunae have an unexpected advantage for conservation scientists. Their genealogies and population genetic patterns may help to illuminate their hosts' evolutionary and demographic history.
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Recently, scientists suggested that rich parasite faunae are inevitably needed for healthy ecosystem functioning and also that parasites and mutualists are the most endangered species on Earth. Even vets have started to argue about the conservational values of parasite species. A recent study on parasites of coral reef fish suggested that extinction of a coral reef fish species would eventually result in the coextinction of at least ten species of parasites. Although this number might seem high, the study included only large parasites such as parasitic worms and crustaceans, but not microparasites such as Myxosporea and Microsporidia.
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Illustration Europelta was by its describers placed in the Nodosauridae, forming a smaller clade Struthiosaurinae together with the European nodosaurids Anoplosaurus, Hungarosaurus and Struthiosaurus. Europelta was by the authors considered to be the oldest known nodosaurid from Europe. They pointed out that its appearance, as a nodosaurid successor of Polacanthidae, paralleled a comparable co-eval succession of polacanthids by nodosaurids in North-America. They suggested that this was not a coincidence but an indication that the faunae of North-America and Europe had not yet been separated by the developing northern Atlantic Ocean, as had been presumed earlier.
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A physician, he practised at Hersbruck. A celebrated botanist, he had a very species-rich herbarium. He also assembled a very important insect collection which was the basis of a vast work Faunae insectorum germanicae initia (Elements of the insect fauna of Germany), published at Nuremberg between 1796 and 1813. Illustrated by Jacob Sturm (1771-1848), with more than 2,600 hand- colored plates of individual, lifesize insects, this work was issued in 109 parts over the 17-year period of its serial publication, a common pattern for illustrated natural history works in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Sonnerat's "surgeon of the island of Luzon" (1776) The pheasant-tailed jacana was described by the French explorer Pierre Sonnerat in his 1776 Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée in which he included an illustration of the bird that he called "Le Chirurgien de l'Isle de Luzon" or the surgeon of the island of Luzon. He described the bird with the long toes, the elongated feather extensions resembling the lancets used for blood-letting by surgeons of the period. Based on this description, the bird was given a binomial by Giovanni Scopoli in 1787 in his Deliciae florae et faunae Insubricae (Pars II) where he placed it in the genus Tringa. He retained the name chirurgus for the specific name.
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