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Brenthia Thoracosema
''Brenthia thoracosema'' is a species of moth of the family Choreutidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982. It is found in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an .... Description The wingspan of the adult female is 11.5 mm. Its head is purplish black. Antenna fuscous. Basal half of antennae with white rings. Palpi and thorax purplish black. Abdomen purple. Forewings broadly triangular. Apex and long termen rounded. Basal patch is purplish black, with bluish-white scaly dusting. Cilia purplish fuscous. Hindwings pale purplish fuscous. Cilia fuscous. References Brenthia Moths described in 1982 {{Choreutidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Diakonoff
Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera. His parents immigrated to the Netherlands East Indies where, from 1923, he had his elementary education. Diakonoff then studied biology at the University of Amsterdam. A thesis on Indo-Malayan Tortricidae completed, he returned to Java in 1939 to take up a post as an entomologist at a sugar plantations and industries research station.in 1941 he was offered a position in the Bogor Zoology Museum at Bogor Botanical Gardens but the Japanese invasion intervened. In 1945 he returned to the Netherlands and studied at Leiden Museum working in the Lepidoptera collection. He returned to Bogor as the Dutch tried to regain Java. This failed and in 1951 Diakonoff left Java for the last time. He became Curator of Lepidoptera at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden. He was an active me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moth
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choreutidae
Choreutidae, or metalmark moths, are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order whose relationships have been long disputed. It was placed previously in the superfamily Yponomeutoidea in family Glyphipterigidae and in superfamily Sesioidea. It is now considered to represent its own superfamily (Minet, 1986). The relationship of the family to the other lineages in the group "Apoditrysianeed a new assessment, especially with new molecular data. Distribution The moths occur worldwide, with 19 genera in three subfamilies defined by the structural characteristics of the immature stages (larvae and pupae), rather than the characters of the adults (Heppner and Duckworth, 1981; Rota, 2005). Behaviour These small moths often bear metallic scalesand are mostly day-flying (some also come to lights), with a jerky, pivoting behaviour, and may fluff up their wings at an extreme angle. Some tropical exemplars such as the genus '' Saptha'' are quite spectacular, with bright green metal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea; it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and Maldives. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. Sri Lanka has a population of around 22 million (2020) and is a multinational state, home to diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicities. The Sinhalese are the majority of the nation's population. The Tamils, who are a large minority group, have also played an influential role in the island's history. Other long established groups include the Moors, the Burghers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenthia
''Brenthia'' is a genus of moths in the family Choreutidae. Species *'' Brenthia albimaculana'' (Snellen, 1875) *'' Brenthia anisopa'' Diakonoff, 1968 *'' Brenthia ardens'' Meyrick, 1912 *'' Brenthia buthusalis'' (Walker, 1863) *'' Brenthia caelicola'' Meyrick, 1910 *'' Brenthia carola'' Meyrick, 1912 *''Brenthia catenata'' Meyrick, 1907 *'' Brenthia confluxana'' (Walker, 1863) *''Brenthia coronigera'' Meyrick, 1918 *'' Brenthia cubana'' Heppner, 1985 *''Brenthia cyanaula'' Meyrick, 1912 *'' Brenthia diplotaphra'' Meyrick, 1938 *'' Brenthia dendronympha'' Meyrick, 1937 *'' Brenthia elachista'' Walsingham, 1900 *''Brenthia elongata'' Heppner, 1985 *'' Brenthia entoma'' Diakonoff, 1982 *'' Brenthia excusana'' (Walker, 1863) *'' Brenthia formosensis'' Issiki, 1930 *'' Brenthia gamicopis'' Meyrick, 1930 *'' Brenthia gregori'' Heppner, 1985 *'' Brenthia harmonica'' Meyrick, 1918 *'' Brenthia hexaselena'' Meyrick, 1909 *'' Brenthia hibiscusae'' Heppner, 1985 *''Brenthia leptocosma ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
