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Soldadinho in sentry


Soldadinho in sentry
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Copyright: PauloShadow Shadow (PauloShadow) (52)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-11-01
Categories: Insects
Exposure: f/4, 1/60 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-11-07 15:48
Viewed: 1092
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Portuguese]
Cigarrinha popularly belongs the sub-order of the known insects as buzzers, between them cigarrinhas, the pulgões, cochinilhas and the flies white, beyond other insects. They is esteem in about 52000 species described and catalogued currently of these insects, that are strict terrestrial and sitófagos. The size of the insects can be sufficiently changeable, being that the minors until today found in the nature are the representatives of the Adelgidae family, reaching 0,3 mm of length, while that the representative greater of the insects is the buzzer of Bornéu, imperatoria Pomporia, presenting 70 mm of length and 200 mm of spread of wing. In Brazil, the Jequitiranabóia Fulgoria would laternaria and the Quesada buzzer mock-ups, that can arrive 65 mm of length. The buccal apparatus is of the type labial teething ring tetraqueta (jaws and jaws transformed into stilettos, envoltos for the inferior lip), with rostro originating of the posterior part of the head (to the times making look like to originate it enters the previous thighs). Homópteros can be ápteros or to still present two pairs of wing, where the previous wings are of the tégmina or membranosa type, while that the posterior ones are membranosas. The wings, when the insect meets in rest, are kept in disposal of "roof", what it becomes easy to distinguish representatives from this sub-order of those pertaining ones to the ones of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera sub-order, where the wings remain intercrossed and parallel bars to tergo abdominal when in rest. Thus being, this is one cigarrinha Homóptera or popularly known as: "Soldadinho in sentry"

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Hi Paulo, Ver interesting insects. Beautiful.

Thank you very much for posting it.

Do update your equipment profile when possible.

Warm regards, Kiran

great, TFS Ori

Linda foto.

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