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Agonopterix Petasitis
''Agonopterix petasitis'' is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in France, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary and Romania. The larvae feed on ''Petasites hybridus ''Petasites hybridus'', the butterbur, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and northern Asia. Although used over centuries in traditional medicine to treat various disorders, there are no approved ...''. References External linkslepiforum.de Moths described in 1851 Agonopterix Moths of Europe {{Agonopterix-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Standfuss
Maximilian Rudolph Standfuss (6 June 1854, Schreiberhau – 22 January 1917, Zürich) was a German-Swiss entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera. He studied theology at the University of Halle and natural sciences at the University of Breslau, where in 1879 he received his PhD in zoology. For many years, he was curator, and later director, of the collections at the entomological museum of ETH Zurich, Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zürich. In 1892 he obtained his habilitation and he subsequently worked as a lecturer at the Polytechnic and at the University of Zürich. In 1915 he received the title of professor. In 1908–10 he served as president of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. He is best remembered for his breeding experiments with butterfly, butterflies and moths under artificial conditions; e.g. taking the cocoons of central European butterflies and breeding them at various temperatures. He discovered that when the temperature was very low, the butterfly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
