JungleDragon
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Photos
  • Species
  • Explore
  • Lists
  • Forum
  • Tags
  • Members
  • Upload
  • Search
  • Sign in

country flag of Exploring photos taken in Portugal

  • Map
  • Photos
  • Species
  • Parks
  • Videos
  • Members
    • Share
  • Popular
  • Newest
  • Oldest
  • Unidentified
    • Play
  • Carabus lineatus Carabus (Chrysocarabus) lineatus ssp. lateralis Chevrolat, 1840
https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ed864ff7-4287-4689-a8cc-c99d0a160d82
https://naturdata.com/especies-portugal/carabus lineatus/0/

f/5.6 1/200s 50mm 12mm extension, cropped Carabus lineatus,arthopoda,beetles,biodiversity,carabidae,carabinae,carabini,insecta,insects,summer
    Carabus lineatus
  • Watch out photographer! :) Iris oratoria, female in a defensive posture.  Iris oratoria,Mediterranean mantis
    Watch out photographer! :)
  • Lomelosia stellata Lomelosia stellata is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name starflower pincushions. It is native to southwestern Europe and North Africa, and it is known widely as an ornamental plant. The inflorescence is a dense spherical cluster of flowers that yield showy fruits with fan-like funnel-shaped papery bracts. Europe,Flora,Geotagged,Macro,Portugal,Scabiosa stellata,Summer,flower,summer
    Lomelosia stellata
  • Zygaena sarpedon Zygaena (Mesembrynus) sarpedon Mesembrynus,Zygaena sarpedon,biodiversity,heterocera,insecta,insects,lepidoptera,spring,zygaenidae,zygaeninae
    Zygaena sarpedon
  • Italochrysa stigmatica Italochrysa stigmatica Chrysopidae,Italochrysa stigmatica,biodiversity,insecta,insetcs,neuroptera,spring
    Italochrysa stigmatica
  • Red-veined darter When you are searching for insects you never know when and if you will find some interesting subjects, in this case was one of those days that after 2 minutes of walking I spotted this beautiful creature. I stayed one solid hour observing and appreciating how wonderful nature can be...  Europe,Fall,Geotagged,Portugal,Red-veined darter,Sympetrum fonscolombii,dragonfly
    Red-veined darter
  • Anthocaris euphenoides Anthocaris euphenoides, male. Anthocaris euphenoides,Anthocharis euphenoides,Provence orange tip,biodiversity,insecta,insects,lepidoptera,pieridae,rhopalocera,spring
    Anthocaris euphenoides
  • Crimson-speckled Flunkey This beautiful creature was resting on the windshield of my car a few days ago, what a gift :-D Crimson speckled footman,Europe,Fall,Geotagged,Moth,Portugal,Utetheisa pulchella
    Crimson-speckled Flunkey
  • Zygaena fausta Zygaena fausta
Ovipositing on Coronilla sp. Zygaena fausta,arthropoda,biodiversity,butterfly,heterocera,insecta,lepidoptera,moth,summer,zygaenidae
    Zygaena fausta
  • Annual mallow  Annual mallow,Europe,Flora,Geotagged,Malva trimestris,Portugal,Summer,flower,plant
    Annual mallow
  • Cytinus hypocistis Cytinus hypocistis L. subsp. macranthus, Wettst.

One of the most extreme manifestations of parasitism is found in the families of endoparasites Rafflesiaceae, Mitrastemonaceae, Apodanthaceae and Cytinaceae. These perennial plants, without chlorophyll, are obligate parasites, and depend on their hosts to obtain water and nutrients (Kuijt, 1969). All show a reduction in their morphological characters, with scale-like leaves and absence of external roots, and their vegetative body is reduced to a haustorial or endophytic system, often compared with that of a fungal plectenchyme. These endophytes live within the roots or stems of their hosts (Kuijt, 1969; Meijer, 1993), and emerge from the hosts only during the reproductive period, when the inflorescences arise. Because of this characteristic lifestyle, these endophytic holoparasites were long considered to constitute a single family, the Rafflesiaceae. However, differences in the morphology of flowers, ovaries and seeds, together with data from recent molecular phylogenetic studies, indicate that they are dis- tinct families, even belonging to different orders (Bouman and Meijer, 1994; Barkman et al., 2004; Nickrent et al., 2004; Davis et al., 2007). 

In http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/6/1209.full.pdf

http://www.flora-on.pt/#/1cytinus_hypocistis Cytinaceae,Cytinus,Cytinus hypocistis,Cytinus_hypocistis,Malvales,Plantae,Rafflesiaceae,endoparasites,magnoliopsidam,parasites,parasitism,wild flowers
    Cytinus hypocistis
  • Carrhotus xanthogramma Salticidae
Spider iD needed, please
Thanks!

Other angles:
Side view: https://www.jungledragon.com/image/91117/salticidae.html
Latero dorsal view: https://www.jungledragon.com/image/91118/salticidae.html Carrhotus xanthogramma,Salticidae
    Carrhotus xanthogramma
  • Solenosthedium bilunatum Solenosthedium bilunatum
Stacked image: 6 Exp. | Handheld | Rendered with Helicon Focus

Almost 6 years after, almost the same day, at the same place, a wonderer.
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/35957/solenosthedium_bilunatum.html
 Elvisurini,Scutelleridae,Solenosthedium bilunatum,arthropoda,biodiversity,bugs,hemiptera,heteroptera,insecta,insetcs,winter
    Solenosthedium bilunatum
  • Ecdysis - emergence of a dragonfly After a few moults, or ecdysis - moulting of the cuticle in invertebrates - a new (re)born dragonfly slowly emerges from its last exuviae... during its emergence haemolymph is pumped throughout the entire body especially to the wings, which causes them to expand to their full extend.

This series were captured during the field work for the IUCN red List, 
and just for a brief short, because there's never enough time to spend on this observations :)
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/87202/ecdysis_-_emergence_of_a_dragonfly.html

EXIF: Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 M42 | 12mm extension | Handheld Blue-eyed hook-tailed dragonfly,Onychogomphus uncatus,anisoptera,biodiversity,dragonfly,edysis,insecta,insects,metamorphosis,odonata,summer
    Ecdysis - emergence of a dragonfly
  • Trypocopris vernalis Trypocopris vernalis Geotrupidae,Geotrupini,Spring dor beetle,Trypocopris,Trypocopris vernalis,beetle,coleoptera,insects,spring
    Trypocopris vernalis
  • Melolontha papposa Side view:
https://www.jungledragon.com/image/37451/melolontha_papposa.html Melolontha,Melolontha papposa,Melolonthidae,Melolonthinae,arthropoda,beetle,beetles,biodiversity,coleoptera,greatnature,insecta,insects
    Melolontha papposa
  • Sleeping flower I would love to know what species of flower is this. Any experts out there who can identify it?  Asteraceae,Common Brighteyes,Europe,Fall,Geotagged,Portugal,Reichardia picroides,flower,macro
    Sleeping flower
  • Zerynthia rumina Zerynthia rumina, male. Rhopalocera,Zerynthia rumina,arthropoda,biodiversity,butterfly,insects,lepidoptera,papilionidae
    Zerynthia rumina
  • Silene vulgaris Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke subsp. vulgaris Angiosperms,Bladder Campion,Caryophyllaceae,Caryophyllales,Caryophylloideae,Core eudicots,Eudicots,Plantae,Silene vulgaris,biodiversity
    Silene vulgaris
  • Smerinthus ocellatus Smerinthus ocellatus, female. Moth Week 2018,Smerinthus ocellatus,Sphingidae,arthropoda,biodiversity,heterocera,insects,lepidoptera,moth
    Smerinthus ocellatus
  • The European Queen «Malpolon monspessulanus» | Montpellier snake
Sintra | Portugal





Exifs:



Camera: 
Canon EOS 5D Mark III



Lens: Sigma 150 mm



1/250 Sek



f/10



ISO 800 Geotagged,Malpolon monspessulanus,Montpellier snake,Portugal
    The European Queen
  • Vespula germanica I find wasps very photogenic. I love the yellow contrast against the black and those dark mysterious eyes. This one was doing something on a snail shell, maybe feeding itself? Fall,Geotagged,German wasp,Portugal,Vespula germânica,macro,wasp
    Vespula germanica
  • Miltochrista miniata Miltochrista miniata Miltochrista miniata,Moth Week 2018,Rosy footman
    Miltochrista miniata
  • Bombus pratorum Bombus pratorum.
An excellent online resource to identify Bumblebees,
Follow this link: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/bombus/key_british_colour.html Bombus pratorum,Early bumblebee
    Bombus pratorum
More photos.. (1,860 total)
Thank you for visiting About Terms Privacy Donate