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Lomographa Distinctata
''Aleucis distinctata'', the sloe carpet or Kent mocha, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was Species description, first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1839. It is found from Europe to Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. The wingspan is 27–31 mm. The head is fuscous. The forewings are fuscous, sprinkled with darker. The first line is hardly curved, the second is subsinuate, waved and dark fuscous. There is a dark fuscous discal spot. The hindwings are whitish-fuscous, the dorsum sprinkled with darker with a discal dot and a waved second line. The larva is brown-grey segments 5–8 with a dark V-shaped dorsal mark; segments 1,2 with a black transverse line; segments 8, 9 with whitish lateral patches; segments 3, 4 with a short oblique black lateral streak; segments 6–9 with black lateral spots. Very like ''Theria rupicapraria'' but smaller, with simple antenna, abdomen with white dorsal dots. Local in Central Europe ab. ''contrast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Curtis (entomologist)
John Curtis (3 September 1791 – 6 October 1862) was an English entomologist and illustrator. Biography Curtis was born in Norwich to Frances and Charles Morgan Curtis. Charles Morgan died before his son had reached the age of 4 years. His mother, Frances, had a passion for flowers and was a professional flower grower. She encouraged her son to study natural history with a young local naturalist, Richard Walker (1791–1870). At the age of 16 John became an apprentice at a local lawyer's office in Norwich but devoted his spare time to studying and drawing insects and, with insect collecting becoming a growing craze, he found he could make a living selling the specimens he found. At this time he became a friend of Simon Wilkin (1790–1862) a wealthy landowner in Norfolk, eventually leaving his job to live with Wilkin at Cossey Hall where the extensive natural history library and specimen collection afforded him the opportunity to study his emerging over-riding passion, entomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
