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Bupalus (moth)
''Bupalus'' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. Selected species * ''Bupalus piniaria __NOTOC__ The bordered white or pine looper (''Bupalus piniaria''), is a moth of the family Geometridae. Among these, it belongs to tribe Bupalini of the subfamily Ennominae. ''B. piniaria'' is a common species throughout the western Palearctic ...'' – bordered white * '' Bupalus vestalis'' Staudinger, 1897 References ''Bupalus''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Ennominae {{Ennominae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bupalus Piniaria
__NOTOC__ The bordered white or pine looper (''Bupalus piniaria''), is a moth of the family Geometridae. Among these, it belongs to tribe Bupalini of the subfamily Ennominae. ''B. piniaria'' is a common species throughout the western Palearctic region, the Near East and North Africa. However, its presence in certain regions – e.g. the northern Balkans – is doubtful. It is (under its original scientific name ''Phalaena piniaria'') the type species of its genus ''Bupalus'', as well as the junior objective synonyms ''Catograpta'', ''Chleuastes'' and ''Phaophyga'', and the preoccupied '' Bupala''. Via its genus, it is also the type of the Bupalini. Three subspecies are generally recognized, while two additional ones are doubtfully distinct: * ''Bupalus piniaria bernieri'' de Lajonquiere, 1958 * ''Bupalus piniaria espagnolus'' Eitschberger & Steiniger, 1975 * ''Bupalus piniaria flavescens'' White, 1876 (usually included in ''piniaria'') * ''Bupalus piniaria mughusari ... [...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] |
Geometridae
The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''metron'' "measure" in reference to the way their larvae, or inchworms, appear to measure the earth as they move along in a looping fashion. A very large family, it has around 23,000 species of moths described, and over 1400 species from six subfamilies indigenous to North America alone. A well-known member is the peppered moth, ''Biston betularia'', which has been subject of numerous studies in population genetics. Several other geometer moths are notorious pests. Adults Many geometrids have slender abdomens and broad wings which are usually held flat with the hindwings visible. As such, they appear rather butterfly-like, but in most respects they are typical moths; the majority fly at night, they possess a frenulum to link the wings, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bupalus Vestalis
Bupalus ( el, Βούπαλος) and Athenis ( el, Ἄθηνις), were sons of Archermus, and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC. They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax, whom they were said to have caricatured. Their works consisted almost entirely of draped female figures, Artemis, Fortune, The Graces, when the Chian school has been well called a school of Madonnas. Augustus brought many of the works of Bupalus and Athenis to Rome, and placed them on the gable of the temple of Apollo Palatinus. Bupalus supposedly committed suicide out of shame after Hipponax wrote caustic satirical poetry about him to revenge himself on Bupalus for his refusal to let Hipponax marry his daughter and for his caricature of Hipponax. Aristophanes refers to Bupalus in the ''Lysistrata''. When the Chorus of Men encounter the Chorus of Women near the north-western edge of the Acropolis they ridicule the women, "I warrant, now, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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