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Platyptilia Falcatalis
''Amblyptilia falcatalis'', the common Hebe plume moth, is a species of moth of the family Pterophoridae. This species was first described by Francis Walker and is endemic to New Zealand. This species can be found in both the North and South Islands. The larval host plants are in the '' Veronica'' (also known as Hebe) genus and include ''Veronica stricta,'' '' Veronica salicifolia, Veronica elliptica, Veronica macrocarpa'' and ''Veronica speciosa.'' This moth likely has two broods a year and adults have been observed all year round. Taxonomy This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1864 using specimens collected in Nelson by T. R. Oxley. Walker originally named the species ''Platyptilus falcatalis''. In 1875 Cajetan von Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer, thinking they were describing a new species, named it ''Platyptilus haasti.'' John S. Dugdale synonymised this name with ''P. facatalis'' in 1988. In 1923, thinking he was describing a new species Alfred P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Walker (entomologist)
Francis Walker (31 July 1809 – 5 October 1874) was an English entomologist. He was born in Southgate, London, on 31 July 1809 and died at Wanstead, England on 5 October 1874. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms. However, his assiduous work on the collections of the British Museum had great significance. Between June 1848 and late 1873 Walker was contracted by John Edward Gray Director of the British Museum to catalogue their insects (except Coleoptera) that is Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Walker largely accomplished this and (Edwards, 1870) wrote of the plan and by implication those who implemented it “It is to him raythat the Public owe the admirable helps to the study of natural history which have been afforded by the series of inventories, guides, and nomenclatures, the publication of which beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cees Gielis
Cees Gielis is a Dutch entomologist and researcher of biodiversity, specializing in Lepidoptera, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands. As of March 2019, Gielis authored 378 taxa within the family of Pterophoridae The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblag ... and 19 within the family of Alucitidae. Publications See Wikispecies below. References External links * Living people 21st-century Dutch zoologists Dutch entomologists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Netherlands-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Fauna Of New Zealand
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moths Of New Zealand
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] |
Moths Described In 1864
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] |
Amblyptilia
''Amblyptilia'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was raised by the German entomologist, Jacob Hübner in 1825. Species *''Amblyptilia acanthadactyla ''Amblyptilia acanthadactyla'', also known as the beautiful plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoroidea found in across the Palearctic including Europe. The species was first described by the German entomologist, Jacob Hübner in 1813. Descr ...'' (Hübner, 1813) *'' Amblyptilia acanthadactyloides'' *'' Amblyptilia aeolodes'' *'' Amblyptilia atrodactyla'' *'' Amblyptilia bowmani'' *'' Amblyptilia clavata'' *'' Amblyptilia deprivatalis'' *'' Amblyptilia direptalis'' *'' Amblyptilia epotis'' *'' Amblyptilia falcatalis'' *'' Amblyptilia fibigeri'' *'' Amblyptilia forcipata'' *'' Amblyptilia galactostacta'' *'' Amblyptilia grisea'' *'' Amblyptilia hebeata'' *'' Amblyptilia heliastis'' *'' Amblyptilia incerta'' *'' Amblyptilia iriana'' *'' Amblyptilia japonica'' *'' Amblyptilia kosteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trigonospila Brevifacies
''Trigonospila brevifacies'' is a species of true fly in the family Tachinidae native to eastern Australia. This species is also found in New Zealand. Like the vast majority of tachinid flies, ''T. brevifacies'' is a parasitoid of other insects, specifically late larval stages of a number of species of Lepidoptera. It is also known as the Australian Leaf-Roller Fly or Leafroller Fly. Distribution ''Trigonospila brevifacies'' is native to the eastern states of Australia and has been collected from Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, and southern Queensland. ''T. brevifacies'' is also present in New Zealand as it was introduced to control a number of agricultural pests.Green OR (1984) New Zealand host and locality records for an introduced tortricid parasite, ''Trigonospila brevifacies'' (Diptera: Tachinidae). New Zealand Entomologist 8: 69-71.Shaw PW, Lo P, and Wall DR (2001) Recent introduction and establishment of the leafroller parasitoid ''Trigonospila brevifacies'' (Hardy) (D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf Miner
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), and flies (Diptera). Some beetles also exhibit this behavior. Like woodboring beetles, leaf miners are protected from many predators and plant defenses by feeding within the tissues of the leaves, selectively eating only the layers that have the least amount of cellulose. When attacking ''Quercus robur'' (English oak), they also selectively feed on tissues containing lower levels of tannin, a deterrent chemical produced in great abundance by the tree. The pattern of the feeding tunnel and the layer of the leaf being mined is often diagnostic of the insect responsible, sometimes even to species level. The mine often contains frass, or droppings, and the pattern of frass deposition, mine shape, and host plant identity are useful to determi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and ethology, animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night. The common adjective used for daytime activity is "diurnal". The timing of activity by an animal depends on a variety of environmental factors such as the temperature, the ability to gather food by sight, the risk of predation, and the time of year. Diurnality is a cycle of activity within a 24-hour period; cyclic activities called circadian rhythms are endogenous cycles not dependent on external cues or environmental factors except for a zeitgeber. Animals active during twilight are crepuscular, those active during the night are nocturnal and animals active at sporadic times during both night and day are cathemerality, cathemeral. Plants that open their flowers during the daytime are described as diurnal, while those that bloom during nighttime are nocturnal. The timing of flower opening is often related to the time at which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Of New Zealand, Nelson
Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricity Places United States * Centre, Alabama * Center, Colorado * Center, Georgia * Center, Indiana * Center, Jay County, Indiana * Center, Warrick County, Indiana * Center, Kentucky * Center, Missouri * Center, Nebraska * Center, North Dakota * Centre County, Pennsylvania * Center, Portland, Oregon * Center, Texas * Center, Washington * Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin * Center, Rock County, Wisconsin ** Center (community), Wisconsin * Center Township (other) * Centre Township (other) * Centre Avenue (other) * Center Hill (other) Other countries * Centre region, Hainaut, Belgium * Centre Region, Burkina Faso * Centre Region (Cameroon) * Centre-Val de Loire, formerly Centre, France * Centre ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amblyptilia Repletalis
''Amblyptilia repletalis'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand and can be found throughout the country from North Cape to Bluff. The species inhabits a variety of habitats including native forest clearings, shrubland, coastal dunes and gardens. Larvae feed on the seed heads of '' Plantago'' plant species. Adults are on the wing all year round and are attracted to light. Taxonomy This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1864 and named ''Platyptilus repletalis''. In 1928 George Hudson discussed and illustrated the species under the name '' Platyptila aeolodes''. Hudson, when referring to ''P. aeolodes'' as being in the North and South Islands, is referring to this species. In 1988 John S. Dugdale discussed this species under the name ''Platyptila repletalis''. In 1993 Cees Gielis placed this species within the genus ''Amblyptilia''. This placement was followed in 2010 in the New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. The male lectotype ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Amblyptilia'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was raised by the German entomologist, Jacob Hübner in 1825. Species *''Amblyptilia acanthadactyla'' (Hübner, 1813) *'' Amblyptilia acanthadactyloides'' *''Amblyptilia aeolodes'' *'' Amblyptilia atrodactyla'' *'' Amblyptilia bowmani'' *'' Amblyptilia clavata'' *'' Amblyptilia deprivatalis'' *'' Amblyptilia direptalis'' *''Amblyptilia epotis'' *''Amblyptilia falcatalis'' *'' Amblyptilia fibigeri'' *''Amblyptilia forcipata'' *''Amblyptilia galactostacta'' *'' Amblyptilia grisea'' *'' Amblyptilia hebeata'' *''Amblyptilia heliastis'' *'' Amblyptilia incerta'' *'' Amblyptilia iriana'' *''Amblyptilia japonica'' *'' Amblyptilia kosteri'' *'' Amblyptilia landryi'' *''Amblyptilia lithoxesta'' *''Amblyptilia pica'' *''Amblyptilia punctidactyla'' *'' Amblyptilia punoica'' *''Amblyptilia repletalis ''Amblyptilia repletalis'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is endemic to New Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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