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Isoparce Cupressi
''Isoparce cupressi'', the baldcypress sphinx or cypress sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Distribution It is found in cypress swamps in from Maryland to Texas. It has been reported from Mexico. Description The wingspan is . Isoparce cupressi MHNT CUT 2010 0 481 Edgard, St John, Louisiana, male dorsal.jpg, ♂ Isoparce cupressi MHNT CUT 2010 0 481 Edgard, St John, Louisiana, male ventral.jpg, ♂ △ Isoparce cupressi MHNT CUT 2010 0 481 Edgard, St John, Louisiana, female dorsal.jpg, ♀ Isoparce cupressi MHNT CUT 2010 0 481 Edgard, St John, Louisiana, female ventral.jpg, ♀ △ Biology There are at least four generations per year in Louisiana with adults on wing from February to October. References External linksBaldcypress SphinxMoths of North America Guide Sphingini Moths described in 1895 {{Sphinginae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook ''Flores française'' in 1828. Early in his career, he was interested in Coleoptera and allied himself with both Jean Théodore Lacordaire and Pierre André Latreille. He was the curator of the Pierre Françoise Marie Auguste Dejean collection in Paris and described many species of beetles, as well as butterflies and moths, resulting from the voyages of the ''Astrolabe'', the expedition ship of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse and the '' Coquille'', that of Louis Isidore Duperrey. He left Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |