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Ardozyga Thermoplaca
''Ardozyga thermoplaca'' is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1902. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ..., where it has been recorded from Victoria. The wingspan is about . The forewings are grey irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous and with an irregular transverse ochreous-yellow spot from the costa near the base. The stigmata are represented by small irregular white spots, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, the second discal larger and partially including two dark dots, surrounded by some scattered whitish scales. There is a row of irregular white dots very near the margin, around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are light ochreous yellow, the basa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswald Bertram Lower
Oswald Bertram Lower (1863 in Adelaide, South Australia – 18 March 1925 in Wayville, South Australia) was an Australian chemist and pharmacist who is best known for his contributions to entomology, in particular butterflies and moths. His collection is now at the South Australian Museum The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultu .... References External links *Image of Lower i''Biology of Australian Butterflies''page 15. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lower, Oswald Bertram Australian entomologists 1863 births 1925 deaths Scientists from Adelaide Australian chemists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelechiidae
The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable dispute. These are generally very small moths with narrow, fringed wings. The larvae of most species feed internally on various parts of their host plants, sometimes causing galls. Douglas-fir (''Pseudotsuga'') is a host plant common to many species of the family, particularly of the genus ''Chionodes'', which as a result is more diverse in North America than usual for Gelechioidea. By the late 20th century, over 900 genera with altogether more than 4,500 species were placed here, with about 650 genera known from North America alone. While these figures are certainly outdated, due to the many revisions to superfamily Gelechioidea and new descriptions of twirler moths, they still serve to show the enormous biodiversity contained in this import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stood at and owned one of the largest wingspans at . Wingspan of aircraft The wingspan of an aircraft is always measured in a straight line, from wingtip to wingtip, independently of wing shape or sweep. Implications for aircraft design and anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardozyga
''Ardozyga'' is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. Species * ''Ardozyga aclera'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga acrocrossa'' (Turner, 1947) * ''Ardozyga acroleuca'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga actinota'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga aeolopis'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga amblopis'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga amphiplaca'' (Meyrick, 1932) * ''Ardozyga ananeura'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga annularia'' (Turner, 1919) * ''Ardozyga anthracina'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga arenaria'' (Turner, 1933) * ''Ardozyga arganthes'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga argocentra'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga aspetodes'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga autopis'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga aversella'' (Walker, 1864) * ''Ardozyga banausodes'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga bistrigata'' (Meyrick, 1921) * ''Ardozyga caminopis'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga catadamanta'' (Diakonoff, 1954) * ''Ardozyga catarrhacta'' (Meyrick, 1904) * ''Ardozyga celidophora'' (Turner, 1919) * ''Ardozyga cephalota'' (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moths Described In 1902
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 est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
