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The basic colouration of the stocky body is dark-brown. The large protruding eyes are round and reddish-brown to red. The pronotum is hairy, arched up and pulled back in a long, wave-shaped extension above the wings, with two sharp, ear-shaped lateral protrusions (hence the Latin name cornutus, meaning "horned"). The legs are very short.
Ant collection of honeydew thus allows treehoppers to feed more (the feeding facilitation hypothesis). [ 11 ] Eggs are laid by the female with her saw-like ovipositor in slits cut into the cambium or live tissue of stems, though some species lay eggs on top of leaves or stems.
The Brazilian treehopper (Bocydium globulare) is a species of insect [1] belonging to the treehopper family (Membracidae). [2] It has unusual appendages on its thorax. While Bocydium can be found throughout the world, they are most prevalent in Africa , North and South America , Asia and Australia . [ 3 ]
S. diceros caught in the web of an Neoscona arabesca.. Stictocephala diceros, the two-horned treehopper, is a species of hemipteran insect within the family Membracidae. [1] The species range includes much of eastern North America, which includes southeastern Canada in areas adjacent the United States border and US state regions such as the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, as well as some ...
There have been three comprehensive accounts: the first was John Gould's 1840s seven-volume series The Birds of Australia, the second Gregory Mathews, and the third was the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (1990-2006). The taxonomy originally followed is from Christidis and Boles, 2008. [1]
Chiloglottis triceratops, commonly known as the three-horned bird orchid, [2] is a species of orchid endemic to Tasmania. It has two broad leaves and a greenish brown to purplish brown flower with a few column-like calli near the mid-line of the labellum .
The brown treecreeper is semi-terrestrial and can live in more open woodland habitats, [1] but is still sensitive to the loss of its habitat. [3] The Australasian treecreepers are essentially non-migratory, although there are distinct differences in the dispersal of young birds after fledging, especially between the two genera.
The tawny frogmouth was first described in 1801 by the English naturalist John Latham. [4] Its specific epithet is derived from Latin strix 'owl' and oides 'form'. Tawny frogmouths belong to the frogmouth genus Podargus, which includes the two other species of frogmouths found within Australia, the marbled frogmouth and the Papuan frogmouth. [5]