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Kotochalia
''Kotochalia'' is a genus of moths belonging to the family Psychidae. The species of this genus are found in Africa. Species: *'' Kotochalia doubledaii'' *''Kotochalia junodi The wattle bagworm (''Kotochalia junodi'', formerly ''Acanthopsyche junodi'') is a species of moth in the family Psychidae. In southern Africa it is a pest of the black wattle (''Acacia mearnsii'') which is grown largely as a source of vegetabl ...'' *'' Kotochalia shirakii'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10314668 Psychidae Psychidae genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotochalia Doubledaii
''Kotochalia'' is a genus of moths belonging to the family Psychidae. The species of this genus are found in Africa. Species: *'' Kotochalia doubledaii'' *''Kotochalia junodi The wattle bagworm (''Kotochalia junodi'', formerly ''Acanthopsyche junodi'') is a species of moth in the family Psychidae. In southern Africa it is a pest of the black wattle (''Acacia mearnsii'') which is grown largely as a source of vegetabl ...'' *'' Kotochalia shirakii'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10314668 Psychidae Psychidae genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotochalia Shirakii
''Kotochalia'' is a genus of moths belonging to the family Psychidae. The species of this genus are found in Africa. Species: *''Kotochalia doubledaii'' *''Kotochalia junodi The wattle bagworm (''Kotochalia junodi'', formerly ''Acanthopsyche junodi'') is a species of moth in the family Psychidae. In southern Africa it is a pest of the black wattle (''Acacia mearnsii'') which is grown largely as a source of vegetabl ...'' *'' Kotochalia shirakii'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10314668 Psychidae Psychidae genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotochalia Junodi
The wattle bagworm (''Kotochalia junodi'', formerly ''Acanthopsyche junodi'') is a species of moth in the family Psychidae. In southern Africa it is a pest of the black wattle (''Acacia mearnsii'') which is grown largely as a source of vegetable tannin. ''Kotochalia junodi'' is indigenous to Southern Africa, where it originally fed on indigenous relatives of the wattle. Like all members of the family Psychidae, the male larva develops into an adult in a mobile silken bag covered with materials such as thorns and twigs. Only once it is mature does it leave the bag to mate. The female never leaves her bag. In spring the eggs hatch in the bag in which the adult female had grown. Because the female never leaves the tree in which she grew and died, the insects need some other way to move to new trees or in general to disperse, and in fact the newly hatched (first-instar) larva is the dispersive stage of the wattle bagworm life cycle. The larva spins a silken thread on which it may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychidae
The Psychidae (bagworm moths, also simply bagworms or bagmoths) are a family of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, such as the snailcase bagworm (''Apterona helicoidella''), in modern times settling continents where they are not native. Another common name for the Psychidae is "case moths", but this is just as well used for the case-bearers (Coleophoridae). The names refer to the habits of caterpillars of these two families, which build small protective cases in which they can hide. The bagworms belong to the superfamily Tineoidea, which is a basal lineage of the Ditrysia (as is Gelechioidea, which includes case-bearers). This means that the bagworms and case-bearers are only as closely related to each other as either is to butterflies (Rhopalocera). Most bagworms are inoffensive to humans and inconspicuous; some are occasional nuisance pests. However ... [...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] |
