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Aseptis Susquesa
''Aseptis susquesa'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae Species description, first described by John Bernhardt Smith in 1908. It is found in Arizona, California and Baja California in Mexico, at least as far south as Ensenada, Baja California, Ensenada. The habitat consists of rocky areas in the mountain-desert transition zone and high desert. The wingspan is about 31.4 mm. The forewings are streaky medium gray to dark brown gray with streaks of warm light orange tan to yellow tan at the postreniform patch, in the fold, and in the large pointed claviform spot. A thin tan line parallels the margin near the anal angle. The reniform and orbicular spots are outlined in black with paler peripheral and darker central scaling. The distal forewing is streaky due to black veins and pale-gray scales and the transverse lines are obsolete. The hindwings are light whitish gray with brown-gray marginal shading and dark veins, darker in females. Adults are on wing from late March to early Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bernhardt Smith
John Bernhardt Smith (November 21, 1858 – March 12, 1912) was an American professor of entomology who specialized in systematics and economic entomology while also serving as the State Entomologist of New Jersey. Smith is remembered in insect taxonomy for the conflict that he had with Harrison Dyar. Biography Smith came from a German family of cabinet makers and was born in New York, studied locally, and went to study law and practiced from 1880 to 1884 and changed fields to work as a special agent in the US Department of Agriculture under C.V. Riley. He was an avid insect collector and his father, Johann Schmitt (Anglicized as John Schmitt) made special cabinet boxes for his son's collections. Smith joined the National Museum in Washington in 1886 as an assistant curator of insects. Along with C.V. Riley, Smith helped in standardizing the sizes of the insect cabinet boxes with his father, and these boxes continue to be known as "''Schmitt boxes.''" In 1889 he succeeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
