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Depressaria Olerella Larva
''Depressaria'' is a moth genus of the superfamily Gelechioidea. It is the type genus of subfamily Depressariinae, which is often – particularly in older treatments – considered a distinct family Depressariidae or included in the Elachistidae, but actually seems to belong in the Oecophoridae.Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), FE (2009), and see references in Savela (2003) The genus' type species is the parsnip moth. Its scientific name has been much confused for about 200 years. Adrian Hardy Haworth, on establishing the genus ''Depressaria'' in his 1811 issues of ''Lepidoptera Britannica'', called the eventual type species ''Phalaena heraclei'', an unjustified emendation of ''P.'' (''Tortrix'') ''heracliana''. In this he followed such entomologists of his time as Anders Jahan Retzius, who in 1783 had believed the parsnip moth to be a species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. But in fact, this was a misidentification; Linnaeus' moth was actually the one known today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purple Carrot-seed Moth
Blunt’s flat-body or purple carrot-seed moth (''Depressaria depressana'') is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in most of Europe. It is also found in the Near East, North Africa, the eastern part of the Palearctic realm and since 2009 in North America. In the former USSR, it is distributed in the entire European part except for the Extreme North, Far North. It is also found in the northern Caucasus and Transcaucasia (Georgia (country), Georgia and Armenia), in Kazakhstan, Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), the south of Siberia (Tomsk, Novosibirsk regions and Altai Territory), and the Russian Far East (Primorskii Territory). It is an introduced species in North America, where it has been reported from Québec and Ontario. The wingspan is 14–20 mm. Adults are on wing from March to May. There is one generation in the north. There are two generations in the northern Caucasus and up to three generations in the south of Ukraine. The larvae feed on ''Daucus ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |