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List Of Lepidoptera That Feed On Buddleja
''Buddleja'' (or ''Buddleia'') species are used as food plants by the larvae ( caterpillars) of a number of Lepidoptera species, including the following. 450px Arctiidae *''Argina argus'' – India Cossidae *'' Coryphodema tristis'' – recorded on ''Buddleja madagascariensis'' in South Africa Ethmiidae *'' Pyramidobela angelarum'' – Nearctic Hesperiidae * Indian awlking (''Choaspes benjaminii'') – India Lycaenidae * Holly blue or hill hedge blue (''Celastrina argiolus'') – recorded on ''Buddleja davidii'' in India Noctuidae 300px, Mullein moth caterpillar *Mullein (''Cucullia verbasci'') – Palaearctic *'' Episteme maculatrix'' – India *'' Mentaxya muscosa'' – recorded on '' Buddleja polystachya'' in East Africa * The gothic (''Naenia typica'') – UK *'' Opsigalea ocellata'' – recorded on '' Buddleja sessiliflora'' in the Nearctic and Mexico Nymphalidae *''Charaxes'' sp. – recorded on ''Buddleja davidii'' in East Africa *Variable checkers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddleja
''Buddleja'' (; ''Buddleia''; also historically given as ''Buddlea'') is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an English botanist and rector, at the suggestion of Dr. William Houstoun. Houstoun sent the first plants to become known to science as buddleja ( ''B. americana'') to England from the Caribbean about 15 years after Buddle's death. Nomenclature The botanic name has been the source of some confusion. By modern practice of botanical Latin, the spelling of a generic name made from 'Buddle' would be ''Buddleia'', but Linnaeus in his ''Species Plantarum'' of 1753 and 1754 spelled it ''Buddleja'', with the long i between two vowels, common in early modern orthography.Linnaei, C. (1753). ''Species plantarum''. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm. The pronunciation of the long i in ''Buddleja'' as ''j'' is a common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues (Polyommatinae), the coppers (Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks (Theclinae), and the harvesters (Miletinae). Description, food, and life cycle Adults are small, under 5 cm usually, and brightly coloured, sometimes with a metallic gloss. Larvae are often flattened rather than cylindrical, with glands that may produce secretions that attract and subdue ants. Their cuticles tend to be thickened. Some larvae are capable of producing vibrations and low sounds that are transmitted through the substrates they inhabit. They use these sounds to communicate with ants.Pierce, N. E.; Braby, M. F.; Heath, A.; Lohman, D. J.; Mathew, J.; Rand, D. B. & Travassos, M. A. (2002)"The eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddleja Sessiliflora
''Buddleja sessiliflora'', commonly known as Rio Grande butterfly-bush or tepozán, native to southern Arizona and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States as well as much of central and northern Mexico excluding the Chihuahua Desert and Baja California Sur. The shrub grows in thorn savannah, forests, riparian zones, along roadsides and in disturbed areas from sea level to 2,800 m. The species was first named and described by Kunth in 1818.Kunth, in Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth. (1818). ''Nov. gen. sp., ed. fol.'' 2:278, ed. quar. 2:345, t184, 1818.Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. ''Flora Neotropica 81''. New York Botanical Garden, USA Description ''Buddleja sessiliflora'' is a trioecious shrub or small tree 1.5 – 5 m tall, the trunk reaching < 7 cm diameter, bark is yellow-brown in colour and fissured. The young branches are subquadrangular, yellowish, the youngest sections |
Opsigalea Ocellata
''Opsigalea'' is a genus of 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 w ...s of the family Noctuidae. Species * '' Opsigalea blanchardi'' Todd, 1966 References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Cuculliinae {{Cuculliinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic (moth)
The Gothic (''Naenia typica'') is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. It is distributed in temperate Eurasia, in the Palearctic realm, including Europe, Turkey, Iran, Caucasus, Armenia, Transcaucasia, Central Asia, Altai mountains, and west and central Siberia. The forewings are broader than those of most other noctuids, and blackish with a network of fine white lines. The pattern is supposedly reminiscent of some elements of Gothic architecture. The hindwings are grey. The species flies at night in June and July in the British Isles. It sometimes comes to light but is not generally strongly attracted. By contrast, it is strongly attracted to sugar and flowers. Technical description and variation This species has a wingspan of 36 to 46 mm. Forewing brownish fuscous, the veins pale; edges of the upper stigmata whitish; the cell blackish; lines pale with dark edges; hindwing browni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa: Due to the historical Omani Empire and colonial territories of the British East Africa Protectorate and German East Africa, the term ''East Africa'' is often (especially in the English language) used to specifically refer to the area now comprising the three countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. However, this has never been the convention in many other languages, where the term generally had a wider, strictly geographic context and therefore typically included Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.Somaliland is not included in the United Nations geoscheme, as it is internationally recognized as a part of Somalia. *Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan are members of the East African Community. The firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddleja Polystachya
''Buddleja polystachya'' is a multi-branched shrub or occasionally small tree endemic to the semi-arid highlands flanking the Red Sea in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen, where it grows in secondary scrub or around forest, often along watercourses, at elevations of between 2,200 and 3,600 m ; its range extends southward into the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania.Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1979) ''The Loganiaceae of Africa XVIII Buddleja L. II, Revision of the African & Asiatic species''. H. Veenman & Zonen, Wageningen, Nederland. Chaudhary, S. A. (2001). ''Flora of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia'', Part 2, Vol. 2. 1-4. Ministry of Agriculture and Water, National Agriculture Research Centre, Riyadh. The species was named by Georg Fresenius in the early part of the 19th century. Description ''Buddleja polystachya'' usually grows to < 5 m , but can occasionally reach 12 m in favourable conditions. The bark can be either red-brown or grey in colour. The flowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mentaxya Muscosa
''Mentaxya'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. Epizootic In epizoology, an epizootic (from Greek: ''epi-'' upon + ''zoon'' animal) is a disease event in a nonhuman animal population analogous to an epidemic in humans. An epizootic may be restricted to a specific locale (an "outbreak"), general (an "epi ... and parasitic fungus '' Batkoa apiculata'' has been found on moth, ''Mentaxya muscosa'' in Africa. Species Some species of this genus are: *'' Mentaxya albifrons'' (Geyer, 1837) *'' Mentaxya arabica'' Wiltshire, 1980 *'' Mentaxya atritegulata'' (Hampson, 1902) *'' Mentaxya basilewskyi'' (Berio, 1955) *'' Mentaxya bergeri'' (Berio, 1955) *'' Mentaxya bruneli'' Laporte, 1975 *'' Mentaxya camerunensis'' Laporte, 1973 *'' Mentaxya comorana'' Viette, 1960 *'' Mentaxya cumulata'' (Walker, 1865) *'' Mentaxya dallolmoi'' Berio, 1972 *'' Mentaxya fletcheri'' (Berio, 1955) *'' Mentaxya fouqueae'' Laporte, 1974 *'' Mentaxya grisea'' Laporte, 1973 *'' Mentax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episteme Maculatrix
''Episteme maculatrix '' is a species of 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 w ... of the family Noctuidae. It was described by John O. Westwood in 1841. References Agaristinae Moths described in 1841 {{Noctuidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Siberian region; the Mediterranean Basin; the Sahara and Arabian Deserts; and Western, Central and East Asia. The Palaearctic realm also has numerous rivers and lakes, forming several freshwater ecoregions. The term 'Palearctic' was first used in the 19th century, and is still in use as the basis for zoogeographic classification. History In an 1858 paper for the ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society'', British zoologist Philip Sclater first identified six terrestrial zoogeographic realms of the world: Palaearctic, Aethiopian/Afrotropic, Indian/Indomalayan, Australasian, Nearctic, and Neotropical. The six indicated general groupings of fauna, based on shared biogeography and large-scale geographic barriers to migration. Alfred Wallace ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mullein Moth
The mullein moth (''Cucullia verbasci'') is a noctuid moth with a Palearctic distribution. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. Description The forewing is broad (for the genus) and brownish ochreous; the costal streak and those preceding and following the lower part of outer line are a deep red brown; the lunules following the line are white and conspicuous; the space below median paler, becoming almost whitish above the outer dark brown streak; the stigmata are marked by dark brown spots; a row of deep brown streaks from apex to vein 6, and another, more faint, from below the apex to the end of cell. The hindwing of the male is whitish, with dark veins and cellspot, becoming diffusely fuscous along the termen; in the female it is darker throughout. The larva is creamy with black and yellow spots. Similar species ''Cucullia verbasci'' is difficult to certainly distinguish from these congeners. *'' Sharga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shargacucullia Verbasci-01 (xndr)
''Shargacucullia'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. Species * '' Shargacucullia anceps'' (Staudinger, 1881) * '' Shargacucullia armena'' (Ronkay & Ronkay, 1987) * ''Shargacucullia barthae'' (Boursin, 1933) * ''Shargacucullia blattariae'' (Esper, 1790) * '' Shargacucullia brevipennis'' (Hampson, 1984) * '' Shargacucullia canariensis'' (Pinker, 1969) * '' Shargacucullia caninae'' (Rambur, 1833) * '' Shargacucullia celsiphaga'' (Boursin, 1940) * '' Shargacucullia erythrocephala'' (Wagner, 1914) * '' Shargacucullia eugrapha'' (Boursin, 1942) * '' Shargacucullia falcata'' (Ronkay & Ronkay, 1987) * '' Shargacucullia faucicola'' (Wiltshire, 1943) * '' Shargacucullia gozmanyi'' Ronkay & Ronkay, 1994 * '' Shargacucullia kasyi'' (Wiltshire, 1976) * '' Shargacucullia lychnitis'' (Rambur, 1833) * '' Shargacucullia macewani'' (Wiltshire, 1949) * '' Shargacucullia mediogrisea'' (Warren, 1911) * '' Shargacucullia naumanni'' (Ronkay & Ronkay, 1992) * '' Shargacucullia notodontina'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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