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Douglasiidae
Douglasiidae is a small Lepidopteran family including around 28 species of micromoth whose adults are collectively called Douglas moths. The largest genus in the family is ''Tinagma''. They are primarily found in the Palearctic (20 spp.) and Nearctic realms. The adults have a 6 to 15 mm wingspan, with a reduced hindwing venation and long fringes. The larvae are leaf miners or borers, primarily in stems and petioles, belonging to Boraginaceae, Labiatae, and Rosaceae. Genera * '' Klimeschia'' Amsel, 1938 Palearctic *'' Protonyctia'' Meyrick, 1932 Ecuador *''Tinagma'' Zeller, 1839 (=''Douglasia'' Stainton, 1854) Palearctic and Nearctic *†'' Tanyglossus'' Poinar, 2017 Cenomanian, Burmese amber, Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ... References ITIS rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglasiidae
Douglasiidae is a small Lepidopteran family including around 28 species of micromoth whose adults are collectively called Douglas moths. The largest genus in the family is ''Tinagma''. They are primarily found in the Palearctic (20 spp.) and Nearctic realms. The adults have a 6 to 15 mm wingspan, with a reduced hindwing venation and long fringes. The larvae are leaf miners or borers, primarily in stems and petioles, belonging to Boraginaceae, Labiatae, and Rosaceae. Genera * '' Klimeschia'' Amsel, 1938 Palearctic *'' Protonyctia'' Meyrick, 1932 Ecuador *''Tinagma'' Zeller, 1839 (=''Douglasia'' Stainton, 1854) Palearctic and Nearctic *†'' Tanyglossus'' Poinar, 2017 Cenomanian, Burmese amber, Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ... References ITIS rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinagma
''Tinagma'' is a genus of moths in the Douglasiidae family. It is primarily found in the Palearctic realm, Palearctic and Nearctic realm, Nearctic realms Species *''Tinagma anchusella'' Benander, 1936 *''Tinagma balteolella'' (Fischer von Roslerstamm, 1840) *''Tinagma bledella'' *''Tinagma brunneofasciatum'' Gaedike, 1990 *''Tinagma californicum'' Gaedike, 1990 *''Tinagma columbella'' *''Tinagma dryadis'' Staudinger, 1872 *''Tinagma giganteum'' Braun, 1921 *''Tinagma gaedikei'' Harrison, 2005 *''Tinagma grisecens'' *''Tinagma hedemanni'' Caradja, 1920 *''Tinagma klimeschi'' Gaedike, 1991 *''Tinagma leucanthes'' Meyrick, 1897 *''Tinagma mexicanum'' Gaedike, 1990 *''Tinagma minutissima'' Staudinger, 1880 *''Tinagma mongolicum'' Gaedike, 1991 *''Tinagma obscurofasciella'' (Chambers, 1881) *''Tinagma ochremaculella'' (Chambers, 1875) *''Tinagma ocnerostomellum'' (Stainton, 1850) *''Tinagma perdicella'' (Zeller, 1839) *''Tinagma powelli'' Gaedike, 1990 *''Tinagma pulverilinea'' Brau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protonyctia
''Protonyctia'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Douglasiidae. Its only species, ''Protonyctia originalis'', is found in Ecuador. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern micr ... in 1932. References Moths described in 1932 Douglasiidae Gracillarioidea genera {{Gracillarioidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinagma Perdicella
''Tinagma perdicella'' is a moth in the family Douglasiidae. It is found in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Poland, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, North Macedonia, Romania, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic region, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. The wingspan is 8–12 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from May to June. The larvae feed on ''Fragaria vesca'' and possibly ''Potentilla'' and ''Rubus'' species. The larvae possibly leaf miner, mine the leaves of their host plant, although it is also reported that young larvae bore the petiole. Older larvae live freely in the heart of the plant. References External linksLepiforum.de Moths described in 1839 Douglasiidae {{Gracillarioidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klimeschia Transversella
''Klimeschia transversella'' is a moth in the family Douglasiidae. It was described by Zeller in 1839. It is found in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Romania, North Macedonia, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Belarus, the Baltic region and Russia. The wingspan is 6–8 mm. Adults are on wing from mid to the end of June. The larvae feed on ''Thymus The thymus is a specialized primary lymphoid organ of the immune system. Within the thymus, thymus cell lymphocytes or ''T cells'' mature. T cells are critical to the adaptive immune system, where the body adapts to specific foreign invaders. ...'' species. References Moths described in 1839 Douglasiidae {{Gracillarioidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klimeschia
''Klimeschia'' is a genus of moths in the family Douglasiidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. Species * '' Klimeschia afghanica'' Gaedike, 1974 * '' Klimeschia lutumella'' Amsel, 1938 * '' Klimeschia paghmanella'' Gaedike, 1974 * '' Klimeschia thymetella'' (Staudinger, 1859) * ''Klimeschia transversella ''Klimeschia transversella'' is a moth in the family Douglasiidae. It was described by Zeller in 1839. It is found in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and He ...'' (Zeller, 1839) * '' Klimeschia vibratoriella'' (Mann, 1862) References Douglasiidae Gracillarioidea genera {{Gracillarioidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf Miner
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), and flies (Diptera). Some beetles also exhibit this behavior. Like woodboring beetles, leaf miners are protected from many predators and plant defenses by feeding within the tissues of the leaves, selectively eating only the layers that have the least amount of cellulose. When attacking ''Quercus robur'' (English oak), they also selectively feed on tissues containing lower levels of tannin, a deterrent chemical produced in great abundance by the tree. The pattern of the feeding tunnel and the layer of the leaf being mined is often diagnostic of the insect responsible, sometimes even to species level. The mine often contains frass, or droppings, and the pattern of frass deposition, mine shape, and host plant identity are useful to determi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf Miners
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), and flies (Diptera). Some beetles also exhibit this behavior. Like woodboring beetles, leaf miners are protected from many predators and plant defenses by feeding within the tissues of the leaves, selectively eating only the layers that have the least amount of cellulose. When attacking ''Quercus robur'' (English oak), they also selectively feed on tissues containing lower levels of tannin, a deterrent chemical produced in great abundance by the tree. The pattern of the feeding tunnel and the layer of the leaf being mined is often diagnostic of the insect responsible, sometimes even to species level. The mine often contains frass, or droppings, and the pattern of frass deposition, mine shape, and host plant identity are useful to determi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burmese Amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to its alleged role in funding internal conflict in Myanmar and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected. Geological context, depositional environment and age The amber is found within the Hukawng Basin, a large Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentary basin within northern Myanmar. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micromoth
Microlepidoptera (micromoths) is an artificial (i.e., unranked and not monophyletic) grouping of moth families, commonly known as the 'smaller moths' (micro, Lepidoptera). These generally have wingspans of under 20 mm, and are thus harder to identify by external phenotypic markings than macrolepidoptera. They present some lifestyles which the larger Lepidoptera do not have, but this is not an identifying mark. Some hobbyists further divide this group into separate groups, such as leaf miners or rollers, stem or root borers, and then usually follow the more rigorous scientific taxonomy of lepidopterans. Efforts to stabilize the term have usually proven inadequate. Diversity Vernacular usage divides the Lepidoptera simply into smaller and larger or into more-primitive and less-primitive groups: microlepidoptera and macrolepidoptera, respectively. Intuitively, the "micros" are any lepidopteran not currently placed in the macrolepidoptera. This paraphyletic assemblage, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nearctic
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America that are not in the Nearctic realm are Eastern Mexico, Southern Florida, coastal Central Florida, Central America, and the Caribbean islands, which, together with South America, are part of the Neotropical realm. Major ecological regions The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) divides the Nearctic into four bioregions, defined as "geographic clusters of ecoregions that may span several habitat types, but have strong biogeographic affinities, particularly at taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)." Canadian Shield The Canadian Shield bioregion extends across the northern portion of the continent, from the Aleutian Islands to Newfoundland. It includes the Nearctic's Arctic Tundra and Boreal forest ecoregions. In terms of flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moth Families
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] |
