Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Ecuador

Opportunities for butterfly research at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Undergraduates A number of undergraduate student volunteers help with my research at the McGuire Center. For longer-term volunteers there are many possible projects that can be pursued as independent research, for degree cr
Ithomiini Systematics of Euptychiina Butterflies of Ecuador

Far up in the Ecuadorian Andes, human encroachment is steadily overtaking Polylepis forests, a distinctive and ecologically important feature of the Andean highlands. Commonly known as the paper tree (arbol de papel) due to its papery layers of bark, the genus grows in forests far beyond the elev
This non-native species, first introduced to Ecuador

McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity (MGCL) houses the Lepidoptera researchers and collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), a college-level unit of the University of Florida. The collections are some of the most com
Ithomiini Systematics of Euptychiina Butterflies of Ecuador

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Systematics and evolution of Ithomiini Background The nymphalid butterfly tribe Ithomiini (ithomiines) is one of the best studied groups of Lepidoptera, and has served as a model in research on biogeography, chemical ecology and evolution. The tribe is exclusively neotropical, containing approxima
Ithomiini Systematics of Euptychiina Butterflies of Ecuador

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have received a three-year, $458,104 National Science Foundation grant to research a common, but often misidentified, butterfly group. The diverse subtribe Euptychiina is found throughout the Americas, with most species occurring in grasslands and
This common lowland forest species photographed in Ecuador

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
in North… Read More News in Brief Butterflies of Ecuador

In 2017, a group of scientists raised alarm bells by showing that flying insects had declined in Germany by more than 70% in the three preceding decades. Studies before and since then have shown similar patterns in insects on a global scale. But with 1 million known species — and conservative estima
researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
in Brief Revising ‘Red Book of Endemic Plants of Ecuador

Hedylidae, commonly known as American Moth-butterflies, is a small, little-known family of Lepidoptera. This tropical family, restricted to Central and South America, includes only one genus, Macrosoma, with 36 species. Their common name alludes to their close relationships to butterflies as well as
view of a Macrosoma caterpillar, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador