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Petrophila Chrysopalis
''Petrophila chrysopalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1906. It is found in Mexico. References Petrophila Moths described in 1906 {{Petrophila-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] |
Crambidae
The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly coloured and patterned insects which rest in wing-spread attitudes. In many classifications, the Crambidae have been treated as a subfamily of the Pyralidae or snout-moths. The principal difference is a structure in the tympanal organs called the praecinctorium, which joins two tympanic membranes in the Crambidae, and is absent from the Pyralidae. The latest review by Munroe and Solis, in Kristensen (1999), retains the Crambidae as a full family. The family currently comprises 15 subfamilies with altogether 10,347 species in over 1,000 genera. Systematics *subfamilia incertae sedis **''Conotalis'' Hampson, 1919 **''Exsilirarcha'' Salmon & Bradley, 1956 *Subfamily Acentropinae Stephens, 1836 *Subfamily Crambinae Latreille, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrophila
''Petrophila'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Lansdown Guilding in 1830. Species *'' Petrophila aealis'' (Walker, 1859) *'' Petrophila aeglesalis'' (Walker, 1859) *''Petrophila aengusalis'' (Schaus, 1924) *'' Petrophila albulalis'' (Hampson, 1906) *'' Petrophila alvealis'' (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) *'' Petrophila amethystina'' (Schaus, 1912) *''Petrophila anna'' (Solis & Tuskes, 2018) *'' Petrophila annulalis'' (Guenée, 1854) *'' Petrophila argyrolepta'' (Dyar, 1914) *'' Petrophila argyrophora'' (Hampson, 1917) *'' Petrophila aroalis'' (Schaus, 1924) *'' Petrophila auspicatalis'' (Schaus, 1912) *''Petrophila avernalis'' (Grote, 1878) *'' Petrophila axis'' (Hampson, 1895) *'' Petrophila aztecalis'' (Schaus, 1924) *'' Petrophila bedealis'' (Schaus, 1924) *''Petrophila benezetalis'' (Schaus, 1924) *''Petrophila bifascialis'' (Robinson, 1869) *''Petrophila bijonalis'' (Dyar, 1914) *''Petrophila brunneodora'' (Dyar, 1914) *''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
