Saint-Raphaël is a commune in the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Southeastern France.
The brimstone canary or bully canary is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a resident breeder in central and southern Africa.
Gaurotes virginea is a species of the Lepturinae subfamily in the long-horned beetle family.
Rhagium mordax, the black-spotted longhorn beetle, is a species of long-horned beetle. This beetle is found throughout Europe and to Kazakhstan and Russia. Larvae develop in silver fir, hazel, European weeping birch, European beech, and the European chestnut. Ischnoceros rusticus is an ichneumonid parasitoid wasp that feds on Rhagium mordax larvae.
Cneoglossidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Byrrhoidea, containing nine described species in a single genus, Cneoglossa, which are native to the Neotropics from Mexico to Brazil. The larvae develop inside rotting submerged branches found in small fast flowing shallow streams.
Mordellistena is a genus of beetles in the family Mordellidae, containing the following species:
Saperdini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
Menesia is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Coptosia bithynensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Ganglbauer in 1884, originally under the genus Phytoecia. It is known from Bulgaria, Turkey, Armenia, and possibly Romania.
Menesia nigriceps is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1903. It contains the varietas Menesia nigriceps var. inhumeralis.
Menesia bipunctata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Zoubkov in 1829, originally under the genus Saperda. It has a wide distribution in Europe and Asia. It measures between 6 and 9 mm. It feeds on Juglans regia and Frangula alnus.
Menesia dallieri is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Maurice Pic in 1926. It is known from Vietnam.
Paraglenea fortunei is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Saunders in 1853, originally under the genus Glenea. It is known from Taiwan, China, North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam, and has been introduced into Japan. It feeds on Cinnamomum camphora, Boehmeria nivea, Hibiscus syriacus, Morus alba, and Triadica sebifera.
Phytoecia puncticollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Faldermann in 1837. It is known from Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Armenia, Turkey, Iran, and Turkmenistan. It feeds on Eryngium billardierei.
Phytoecia gaubilii is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Mulsant in 1851. It is known from Tunisia and Algeria.
Phytoecia rufiventris is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gautier des Cottes in 1870. It is known from Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, China, and Vietnam. It feeds on Artemisia vulgaris.
The wych elm cultivar Ulmus glabraHuds. 'Superba', Blandford Elm, with unusually large leaves, was raised by Gill's of Blandford Forum, Dorset, in the early 1840s as Ulmus montana superba and was quickly distributed to other UK nurseries. It was confirmed as a form of wych, and first described by Lindley in The Gardeners' Chronicle, 1845, later descriptions being added by Gill (1845) and Morren (1848), who called it U. montana var. superba. Morren had adopted the name 'Superba' from the Fulham nurseryman Osborne in 1844, who supplied him with the tree – presumably one of the nurseries supplied by Gill. Morren states that 'Superba', already in cultivation in England, was introduced to Belgium by Denis Henrard of Saint Walburge, Liège, that in 1848 it had been present in Belgium for only three years, and that this variety was the one described as 'Superba' by Osborne, whom Henrard had visited at his nursery in Fulham in September 1844. 'Blandford Elm', with leaves of the same dimensions, was soon for sale in the USA.
