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Marumba Poliotis
''Marumba poliotis'' is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from India. It is a small, grey species. There are shades of pale grey and pale brown on the forewing upperside, crossed by crenulated and irregular transverse lines. References Marumba Moths described in 1907 {{Smerinthini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency (now Tamil Nadu), where he became interested in moths and butterflies. When he returned to England he became a voluntary worker at the Natural History Museum, where he wrote ''The Lepidoptera of the Nilgiri District'' (1891) and ''The Lepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon'' (1893) as parts 8 and 9 of ''Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera of the British Museum''. He then commenced work on ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths'' (four volumes, 1892–1896). Albert C. L. G. Günther offered him a position as assistant at the museum in March 1895, and, after succeeding to his baronetcy A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, ... [...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] |
Sphingidae
The Sphingidae are a family of moths (Lepidoptera) called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as “hornworms”; it includes about 1,450 species. It is best represented in the tropics, but species are found in every region.Scoble, Malcolm J. (1995): ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity'' (2nd edition). Oxford University Press & Natural History Museum London. They are moderate to large in size and are distinguished among moths for their agile and sustained flying ability, similar enough to that of hummingbirds as to be reliably mistaken for them. Their narrow wings and streamlined abdomens are adaptations for rapid flight. The family was named by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1802. Some hawk moths, such as the hummingbird hawk-moth or the white-lined sphinx, hover in midair while they feed on nectar from flowers, so are sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds. This hovering capability is only known to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marumba
''Marumba'' is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. Species *'' Marumba amboinicus'' (C. Felder, 1861) *'' Marumba cristata'' (Butler, 1875) *'' Marumba diehli'' Roesler & Kuppers, 1975 *'' Marumba dyras'' (Walker, 1865) *'' Marumba fenzelii'' Mell, 1937 *'' Marumba gaschkewitschii'' (Bremer & Grey, 1853) *'' Marumba indicus'' (Walker, 1856) *''Marumba jankowskii'' (Oberthur, 1880) *'' Marumba juvencus'' Rothschild & Jordan, 1912 *'' Marumba maackii'' (Bremer, 1861) *'' Marumba nympha'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) *'' Marumba poliotis'' Hampson, 1907 *'' Marumba quercus'' (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) *'' Marumba saishiuana'' Okamoto, 1924 *'' Marumba spectabilis'' (Butler, 1875) *''Marumba sperchius'' (Menetries, 1857) *'' Marumba tigrina'' Gehlen, 1936 *'' Marumba timora'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) Gallery Marumba amboinicus MHNT CUT 2010 0 57 Ambon Isl 70m Indonesia male.jpg, '' Marumba amboinicus'' Marumba cristata titan M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
