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Nomima
''Nomima'' 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 in the Dudgeoneidae family. Species * ''Nomima chloroptera'' (Meyrick, 1920) * ''Nomima cyanoscia'' (Meyrick, 1918) * ''Nomima deserticola'' Mey, 2007 * ''Nomima gaerdesi'' Mey, 2007 * ''Nomima montisusti'' Mey, 2007 * ''Nomima prophanes'' Durrant, 1916 * ''Nomima subnigrata'' (Meyrick, 1917) * '' Nomima szunyoghyi'' (Gozmány, 1965) References External links Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog Dudgeoneidae {{Cossoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomima Szunyoghyi
''Nomima szunyoghyi'' is a moth in the family Dudgeoneidae. It is found in Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and .... References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog Endemic fauna of Tanzania Dudgeoneidae Moths described in 1965 {{Cossoidea-stub ... [...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] |
