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Membracidae

Membracidae

thorn bugs,Treehoppers,Tree lice, stinging lice, stinging insects

Features:Excretes honeydew to form a symbiotic relationship with ants

Membracidae are members of the family Membracidae, in the order Homoptera, class Insecta, and are often called "tree lice" or There are more than 3,000 known species of lice worldwide. Cicada. They are known for their unique appearance and rich species diversity, especially the unique shap...

Birgus latro

Birgus latro

Coconut Crab,Gossip crab, robber crab

Features:Huge size, powerful claws, and a master tree climber

Coconut crab (scientific name: Birgus latro, foreign name Coconut Crab), also known as gossip crab and robber crab, belongs to the land hermit crab family. It is a decapod arthropod. It is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world and the largest terrestrial crustacean in existenc...

Coccinellidae

Coccinellidae

Coccinella septempunctata,ladybirds,ladybug,Fatty, matchmaker, sister Hua, Tiandao worm, golden turtle, pearl turtle, Dr. Mai, stinky turtle

Features:The body is hemispherical, usually the size of a soybean, and the wings are hard and metallic. The body of a ladybug is brightly colored, often with red, black or yellow spots. The number and arrangement of these spots are important features that distinguish different types of ladybugs.

Ladybugs (scientific name: Coccinellidae, binomial name: Coccinella septempunctata), the "lady" in the English name ladybirds (also known as ladybug) is generally considered to be an allusion to the Virgin Mary in the Catholic faith. It is a common name for beetles with round protrusions....

spider

spider

Webworms, flat spiders, garden spiders, octopuses, crickets, silkworms

Features:Body structure: The spider's body is divided into the cephalothorax and abdomen, and the two parts are connected by a slender abdominal stalk. There is a pair of chelicerae in front of the head, and the end of the chelicerae is a venomous fang with a venom gland duct. The number of eyes of spiders varies, including single eye, eight eyes, six eyes or four eyes. ‌
‌Leg characteristics‌: Spiders have four pairs of legs on both sides of the thorax, and hard claws grow on the toes for walking and climbing.
‌Life habits‌: The lifestyle of spiders can be divided into nomadic and settled types. Nomadic spiders hunt and prey everywhere, have no fixed place to live, and do not make webs. Settled spiders make webs, dig holes or build nests as fixed residences. ‌
‌Diet‌: Spiders have a mixed diet, mainly feeding on insects such as flies. They have strong predation ability and are natural enemies of many agricultural and forestry pests. ‌
‌Reproduction and life span‌: Spiders can

Spiders (scientific name Araneida; Araneae, foreign name Spider) are also known as webworms, flat spiders, garden spiders, eight-legged spiders, Xizi, and Bosi. It is an arthropod of the chelicerae subphylum. It has two body segments. The body of the eight-legged spider is divided into the cephaloth...

Paederus fuscipes

Paederus fuscipes

Features:The most well-known feature of this insect is a powerful toxin secreted by it, namely "pederin", which is highly irritating to human skin.

Paederus fuscipes is a small insect of the family Staphylinidae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. They are slender, usually with a smooth black or dark brown shell, and are named after their abdomen hidden under their wings. The most well-known feature of this insect is a powe...

Atlatsjapyx atlas

Atlatsjapyx atlas

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Features:Wingless, eyeless, slender body, multi-segmented filamentous antennae, with a pair of segmented tail whiskers or unsegmented tail hairpins.

Atlas japyx atlas (scientific name: Atlas japyx atlas) is an arthropod found in Xiangcheng County, Sichuan Province, the People's Republic of China. It is the only species of the genus Atlas japyx in the family Atlas japyx of the order Dicer. At the time of discovery, it was the largest known dichopod insect in the world at that time. This species belongs to the species of the Diceridae family....

Balanus

Balanus

Balanus,Touch, horse teeth, oyster soup

Features:Shaped a bit like a horse's tooth, it is the nightmare of whales and turtles

There are more than 500 species of barnacles (scientific name: Balanus), and about 110 species are found in my country. Barnacles have strong adaptability to the salinity and temperature of seawater and are widely distributed in different waters along the coast of my country. They can attach to any...

Blatta orientalis

Blatta orientalis

Blatta orientalis,Oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis

Features:The largest cockroach in the world

The Oriental cockroach (scientific name: Blatta orientalis) is the largest cockroach in the world.Oriental cockroaches are extremely greedy, and they like to eat all kinds of food, whether dirty, smelly, or fragrant, or human sputum and feces. They often vomit part of the food they have eaten from t...

Blattella germanica

Blattella germanica

Blattella germanica,German cockroach, German cockroach, Blattella germanica

Features:It is the most widely distributed and most difficult to control type of household pests in the world.

German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is the most widely distributed and most difficult to control type of household pests in the world.German cockroach originated in Africa with high temperature and high humidity, and still prefers to live in a relatively warm and humid environment. Nymphs have th...

Periplaneta americana

Periplaneta americana

Periplaneta americana,Red cockroach, ship cockroach, cockroach

Features:Reddish brown, wings longer than the end of the abdomen, good at crawling, poor flying ability, a global health pest

The American cockroach is scientifically named Periplaneta americana, and is the largest insect in the Blattidae family.The American cockroach is an omnivorous insect that feeds on a wide range of food. It is not very selective about food, but it has some food that it prefers. The amount of food eat...

Danaus plexippus

Danaus plexippus

Danaus plexippus,Great Birch Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly, Black-veined Birch Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly

Features:Known as the most beautiful butterfly in the world, it is the only migratory butterfly on earth.

The Monarch Butterfly (scientific name: Danaus plexippus) is a large butterfly that is very common in North America. In Australia, this butterfly is called the Wanderer Bufferfly, which is also a very common butterfly. There are 2 subspecies.The Monarch Butterfly is probably the most well-known butt...

Latrodectus

Latrodectus

Latrodectus,black widow,Spider

Features:It is extremely toxic, and the whole body is poisonous, including the legs, abdomen, ovaries, etc. People who inhale it are very likely to be poisoned

The scientific name of the black widow spider is Latrodectus, and its foreign name is black widow. Because the female of this spider bites the male partner to death immediately after mating, the people call it "black widow".Black widow spiders usually live in temperate or tropical re...

Teinopalpus aureus

Teinopalpus aureus

Teinopalpus aureus

Features:The golden-spotted swallowtail butterfly has a graceful flying posture, like a gorgeous, noble and radiant "lady", so it is called the "Queen of Butterflies" and is a precious butterfly species in the world.

As a unique treasure of China, the Golden Swallowtail is known as the "national butterfly" and the "pride of butterflies". It is precious and rare. It is the only butterfly in China that is under national first-class protection. It ranks first among the eight precious butterflies...

Morpho Helena

Morpho Helena

Morpho Helena,Blue morpho Helena butterfly,Helena Morpho, Goddess of Light, Helena Morpho, Blue Danube

Features:Known as the most beautiful butterfly in the world

The Blue morpho Helena butterfly (scientific name: Morpho Helena) was once a subspecies of the blue morpho butterfly (Morpho rhetenor) and is now an independent species. It is a beautiful and dreamy butterfly. The entire wing surface is like white waves surging on the blue sea. Its color and pattern...

Hymenopus coronatus

Hymenopus coronatus

Hymenopus coronatus,Orchid Mantis

Features:Nature's Master of Mimicry

Orchid Mantis (scientific name: Hymenopus coronatus) is an animal of the family Hymenopidae and the class Insecta.Wild orchid mantises live in the tropical rainforests of Malaysia. It is a diurnal insect with a high predatory instinct, and will prey on each other even if they are of the same species...

Oratosquilla oratoria

Oratosquilla oratoria

Oratosquilla oratoria,Mantis shrimp, mantis shrimp, mantis shrimp, mantis shrimp

Features:It has a ferocious temperament and can attack with great force, even breaking glass.

The Latin name of mantis shrimp is Oratosquilla oratoria. It is found along the coast of China. The most common species is the mantis shrimp of the family Mantischidae and the genus Oratosquilla.Most mantis shrimps live in caves, often digging holes in the sandy or muddy bottom of the shallow sea, a...

Nemopistha sinica

Nemopistha sinica

Nemopistha sinica

Features:The hind wings are specialized, like ribbons or silk threads, and when flying they resemble the flying ladies in the Dunhuang murals.

The Latin name of the Chinese lacewing is Nemopistha sinica, which is the only lacewing known in our country.On May 28, 2022, the staff of the Lushui Management Bureau of Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve photographed the Chinese lacewing, a national second-level wild protected animal, for...

Galloisiana sinensis

Galloisiana sinensis

Galloisiana sinensis

Features:The female has a well-developed sword-shaped ovipositor

Chinese cockroach (scientific name: Galloisiana sinensis) is an insect of the Blattidae family and the genus Blattia, with no subspecies.Chinese cockroach is an omnivorous insect, whose main food is plants (moss) and small insects. The Chinese cockroach is active at night, and its main activity mode...

Zorotypus medoensis

Zorotypus medoensis

Zorotypus medoensis

Features:The arrangement of the four hairs in the middle of the posterior part of the ventral plate of the eighth abdominal segment of the male insect is trapezoidal

Zorotypus medoensis is an insect of the family Zorotypus and genus Zorotypus, with no subspecies.The wingless type of Medog wingless insect is very similar to that of Chinese wingless insect. Except for some differences in the male external genitalia after dissection, the most obvious difference is...

Zorotypus sinensis

Zorotypus sinensis

Zorotypus sinensis

Features:Dark brown, head nearly triangular in frontal view

Zorotypus sinensis (scientific name: Zorotypus sinensis) is an insect of the family Zorotypus and genus Zorotypus.In 1973, the insect was first discovered by Chinese biologist Professor Huang Fusheng and officially named "Zorotypus sinensis".The life history of the Chinese wingless insect...

Ophiogomphus spinicornis

Ophiogomphus spinicornis

Ophiogomphus spinicornis,Northern arrow dragonfly

Features:A good mosquito hunter

Ophiogomphus spinicornis is an insect of the family Ophiogomphidae and the genus Ophiogomphus. This species was first published by Belgian scholar Edmond de Chellies Longchamp in 1878.The adult thorny-horned dragonfly is good at flying. It not only has endurance for long-distance flights, but also h...