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Hemiceratoides
''Hemiceratoides'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') .... Species * '' Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica'' Saalmüller, 1891 * '' Hemiceratoides sittaca'' Karsch, 1896. * '' Hemiceratoides vadoni'' Viette 1976 References * Hilgartner, R., Raoilison, M., Büttiker, W., Lees, D.C. & Krenn, H.W. (2007). "Malagasy birds as hosts for eye-frequenting moths." ''Biology Letters'' * Karsch, F. (1896). ''Ent. Nachr.'' 22: 228. Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database* Saalmüller, M. (1891). ''Lepidopteren von Madagascar: Neue und Wemig Bekannte Arten'' * Viette, P. (1976). "Nouvelles Noctuelles de Madagascar ep. Noctuidae" ''Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon'' 6: 220-228. Calpinae Moth genera {{Calpin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemiceratoides Sittaca
''Hemiceratoides'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') .... Species * '' Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica'' Saalmüller, 1891 * '' Hemiceratoides sittaca'' Karsch, 1896. * '' Hemiceratoides vadoni'' Viette 1976 References * Hilgartner, R., Raoilison, M., Büttiker, W., Lees, D.C. & Krenn, H.W. (2007). "Malagasy birds as hosts for eye-frequenting moths." ''Biology Letters'' * Karsch, F. (1896). ''Ent. Nachr.'' 22: 228. Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database* Saalmüller, M. (1891). ''Lepidopteren von Madagascar: Neue und Wemig Bekannte Arten'' * Viette, P. (1976). "Nouvelles Noctuelles de Madagascar ep. Noctuidae" ''Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon'' 6: 220-228. Calpinae Moth genera {{Calpin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemiceratoides Hieroglyphica
''Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica'' is a moth from Madagascar. It was discovered in 2006 that it frequents sleeping birds at night, and drinks their tears, using a specialized, harpoon-like proboscis.Hilgartner, R., M. Raoilison, W. Büttiker, D.C. Lees, and H.W. Krenn. 2007. Malagasy birds as hosts for eye-frequenting moths. ''Biology Letters'' 3: 117–120. Tear-feeding moths outside of Madagascar (for example ''Mecistoptera griseifusa'' in the Hypeninae subfamily), are not directly related to this species, and have evolved dissimilar mechanisms for drinking from large animals like deer or crocodiles. The adults have a wingspan of 52 mm. Distribution This species is known from Nigeria, South Africa and Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemiceratoides Vadoni
''Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica'' is a moth from Madagascar. It was discovered in 2006 that it frequents sleeping birds at night, and drinks their tears, using a specialized, harpoon-like proboscis.Hilgartner, R., M. Raoilison, W. Büttiker, D.C. Lees, and H.W. Krenn. 2007. Malagasy birds as hosts for eye-frequenting moths. ''Biology Letters'' 3: 117–120. Tear-feeding moths outside of Madagascar (for example ''Mecistoptera griseifusa'' in the Hypeninae subfamily), are not directly related to this species, and have evolved dissimilar mechanisms for drinking from large animals like deer or crocodiles. The adults have a wingspan of 52 mm. Distribution This species is known from Nigeria, South Africa and Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calpinae
The Calpinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1840. This subfamily includes many species of moths that have a pointed and barbed proboscis adapted to piercing the skins of fruit to feed on juice, and in the case of the several '' Calyptra'' species of vampire moths, to piercing the skins of mammals to feed on blood. The subfamily contains some large moths with wingspans longer than 5 cm (2 in). Taxonomy Recent phylogenetic studies have greatly revised this subfamily. The subfamily was previously classified within the Noctuidae, but the redefinition of that family has reclassified many of that family's subfamilies, including Calpinae, into the family Erebidae. The Calpinae are most closely related to a clade including the subfamilies Eulepidotinae and Hypocalinae, which are also among the Erebidae. The tribes Anomini and Scoliopterygini, previously included in the Calpinae, were found to be distantly related and we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...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] |
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala''); litter moths (Herminiinae); tiger, lichen, and wasp moths (Arctiinae); tussock moths (Lymantriinae), including the arctic woolly bear moth (''Gynaephora groenlandica''); piercing moths ( Calpinae and others); micronoctuoid moths (Micronoctuini); snout moths (Hypeninae); and zales, though many of these common names can also refer to moths outside the Erebidae (for example, crambid snout moths). Some of the erebid moths are called owlets. The sizes of the adults range from among the largest of all moths (> wingspan in the black witch) to the smallest of the macromoths ( wingspan in some of the Micronoctuini). The coloration of the adults spans the full range of dull, drab, and camouflaged (e.g., ''Zale lunifera'' and litter moths) to vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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