Aellopos Clavipes
''Aellopos clavipes'', also known as the clavipes sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Distribution It lives mainly in Central America but ranges from Venezuela to California, Arizona, and Texas in the United States. Aellopos clavipes MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Mazatlán Mexico female dorsal.jpg, Female dorsal Aellopos clavipes MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Mazatlán Mexico female ventral.jpg, Female ventral Biology Adults are on wing from May to December in Costa Rica. There are probably three main generations with adults on wing in December, from April to May and in September. The larvae feed on various Rubiaceae species, including '' Randia rhagocarpa'', '' Randia monantha'', ''Randia aculeata'', ''Guettarda macrosperma ''Guettarda'' is a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. Most of these plants are known by the common name velvetseed. Estimates of the number of species range from about 50 Anthony J. Huxley, Mark Griffiths, and Margot Levy (editors). 1992. ''Th ...'' and ...
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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Rothschild was the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926. Early life Walter Rothschild was born in London as the eldest son and heir of Emma Louise von Rothschild and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, an immensely wealthy financier of the international Rothschild financial dynasty and the first Jewish peer in England. The eldest of three children, Walter was deemed to have delicate health and was educated at home. As a young man, he travelled in Europe, attending the University of Bonn for a year before entering Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1889, leaving Cambridge after two years, he was ...
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Randia Rhagocarpa
''Randia'' can refer to : * ''Randia'' (bird), a monotypic genus of bird containing a single species, ''Randia pseudozosterops'', also known as Rand's warbler * ''Randia'' (plant), a genus of plants of the family Rubiaceae * r/India, a subreddit on the social site Reddit. See also * Randhia Randhia is a village on Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India. Randhia was formerly a princely state. Villages in Amreli district {{India-hist-stub ...

Moths Described In 1903
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species. Differences between butterflies and moths While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.Scoble, MJ 1995. The Lepidoptera: Form, function and diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 404 p. Although the rules for distinguishing moths from butterflies are not well establishe ...
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Sphingidae Of South America
The Sphingidae are a family of moths (Lepidoptera) called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as “hornworms”; it includes about 1,450 species. It is best represented in the tropics, but species are found in every region.Scoble, Malcolm J. (1995): ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity'' (2nd edition). Oxford University Press & Natural History Museum London. They are moderate to large in size and are distinguished among moths for their agile and sustained flying ability, similar enough to that of hummingbirds as to be reliably mistaken for them. Their narrow wings and streamlined abdomens are adaptations for rapid flight. The family was named by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1802. Some hawk moths, such as the hummingbird hawk-moth or the white-lined sphinx, hover in midair while they feed on nectar from flowers, so are sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds. This hovering capability is only known to ...
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Moths Of North America
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species. Differences between butterflies and moths While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.Scoble, MJ 1995. The Lepidoptera: Form, function and diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 404 p. Although the rules for distinguishing moths from butterflies are not well establishe ...
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Aellopos
The genus ''Aellopos'' consists of large day-flying moths in the family Sphingidae. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Species in this genus occur from Maine in the United States through Central America and down to Argentina and Uruguay in South America. Species *''Aellopos blaini'' (Herrich-Schaffer, 1869) *''Aellopos ceculus'' (Cramer, 1777) *''Aellopos clavipes'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) – clavipes sphinx moth *''Aellopos fadus'' (Cramer, 1775) – Fadus sphinx moth *''Aellopos tantalus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – Tantalus sphinx moth *''Aellopos titan'' (Cramer, 1777) – Titan sphinx moth Aellopos ceculus MHNT CUT 2010 0 309 Todos Santos Chapare Bolivia male.jpg, ''Aellopos ceculus'' Aellopos clavipes MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Mazatlán Mexico male.jpg, ''Aellopos clavipes'' Aellopos fadus MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Manicoré Amazonas Brazil male.jpg, ''Aellopos fadus'' Aellopos tantalus MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico male.jpg, ''Aellopos ta ...
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Genipa Americana
''Genipa americana'' () is a species of trees in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to the tropical forests of North and South America, as well as the Caribbean. Description ''Genipa americana'' trees are up to 30 m tall and up to 60 cm dbh. Their bark is smooth with little fissures. The leaves are opposite, obovate, or obovate oblong, 10–35 cm long, 6–13 cm wide, and glossy dark green, with entire margin, acute or acuminate apex, and attenuated base. The inflorescences are cymes up to 10 cm long. The flowers are white to yellowish, slightly fragrant, calyx bell-shaped, corolla at 2–4.5 cm long, trumpet-shaped, and five- or six-lobed. The five short stamens are inserted on top of the corolla tube. The fruit is a thick-skinned edible greyish berry 10–12 cm long, 5–9 cm in diameter. Distribution and habitat ''Genipa americana'' is native to the tropical forests of the Americas, from tropical Florida south to Argentina. It is pres ...
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Guettarda Macrosperma
''Guettarda'' is a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. Most of these plants are known by the common name velvetseed. Estimates of the number of species range from about 50 Anthony J. Huxley, Mark Griffiths, and Margot Levy (editors). 1992. ''The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening.'' The Macmillan Press Limited, London; The Stockton Press, New York. (set) to 162.''Guettarda'' At: World Checklist of Rubiaceae At: Kew Gardens Website. (see ''External links'' below). Most of the species are neotropical.David J. Mabberley. 2008. ''Mabberley's Plant-Book'' third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. Twenty are found in New Caledonia and one reaches Australia. A few others are found on islands and in coastal areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Three species (''G. odorata, G. scabra, G. speciosa'') are known in cultivation. ''Guettarda argentea'' provides edible fruit. The type species for the genus is ''Guettarda speciosa''.''Guettarda'' In: Inde ...
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Randia Aculeata
''Randia aculeata'', commonly known as white indigoberry or white indigo berry, is a species in the Rubiaceae. It is a shrub or small tree that grows from 2 to 6 m tall. ''R. aculeata'' is native to Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, elsewhere among the Caribbean islands, and also from Mexico south through Central and South America to Colombia.Francis, John K''Randia aculeata'' L.U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Accessed online: 21 December 2007. References External links *''Randia aculeata''at the USDA PLANTS database. aculeata Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which is the modification of the ovipositor into a stinger. However, many members of the group canno ... Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Ixoroideae-stub ...
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Randia Monantha
''Randia'' can refer to : * ''Randia'' (bird), a monotypic genus of bird containing a single species, ''Randia pseudozosterops'', also known as Rand's warbler * ''Randia'' (plant), a genus of plants of the family Rubiaceae * r/India, a subreddit on the social site Reddit. See also * Randhia Randhia is a village on Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India. Randhia was formerly a princely state. Villages in Amreli district {{India-hist-stub ...

Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules and sympetalous actinomorphic flowers. The family contains about 13,500 species in about 620 genera, which makes it the fourth-largest angiosperm family. Rubiaceae has a cosmopolitan distribution; however, the largest species diversity is concentrated in the tropics and subtropics. Economically important genera include ''Coffea'', the source of coffee, '' Cinchona'', the source of the antimalarial alkaloid quinine, ornamental cultivars (''e.g.'', '' Gardenia'', ''Ixora'', ''Pentas''), and historically some dye plants (''e.g.'', ''Rubia''). Description The Rubiaceae are morphologically easily recognizable as a coherent group by a combination of characters: opposite or whorled leaves that are simple and entire, interpetiolar stipules, tubu ...
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Karl Jordan (zoologist, Born 1861)
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan (7 December 1861 – 12 January 1959) was a German-British entomologist. He took a special interest in the taxonomy and classification of butterflies, beetles and fleas. Jordan was a founder of the International Congress of Entomology. Jordan was born in a farming family in Almstedt, raised by an uncle after the death of his father in 1855, finished school in Hildesheim and educated at Göttingen University. After a year of military service, he taught at Münden Grammar School for five years and came in contact with zoologist August Metzger and Count Berlepsch that led to a growth in his natural history interest. Through their recommendation he received an invitation to joined Ernst Hartert at Rotschild's museum. In 1893 he began work at Walter Rothschild's Natural History Museum at Tring, specialising in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Siphonaptera. Jordan published over 400 papers, many jointly with Charles and Walter Rothschild. He described 2,575 ne ...
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