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Pilostibes
''Pilostibes'' is a genus of moths of the family Xyloryctidae. Species * ''Pilostibes basivitta'' (Walker, 1864) * ''Pilostibes embroneta'' Turner, 1902 * ''Pilostibes serpta'' Lucas, 1901 * ''Pilostibes stigmatias'' Meyrick, 1890 References Pilostibes, Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilostibes
''Pilostibes'' is a genus of moths of the family Xyloryctidae. Species * ''Pilostibes basivitta'' (Walker, 1864) * ''Pilostibes embroneta'' Turner, 1902 * ''Pilostibes serpta'' Lucas, 1901 * ''Pilostibes stigmatias'' Meyrick, 1890 References Pilostibes, Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilostibes Stigmatias
''Pilostibes stigmatias'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ... is 44–46 mm. The forewings are pale brownish ochreous irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous, the costal half suffused with ochreous brown and with a moderate transverse oblong-oval very dark reddish-fuscous slenderly whitish-margined central spot, the lower extremity becoming black and produced into a slender acute outwardly oblique tooth. The hindwings are fuscous, lighter towards the base and with a darker hindmarginal line. The larvae feed on '' Elaeocarpus obovatus'' and '' Sloanea australis''. They bore in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilostibes Basivitta
''Pilostibes basivitta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan is about 32 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous with a strong fuscous longitudinal streak, mixed with blackish, from the base below the costa to the disc before the middle, with two short oblique teeth from its upper edge, and its apex connected by a short line with an oblique linear blackish dot in the disc beyond the middle. There is a short blackish longitudinal dash beneath the apex of this streak. A fine blackish line is found on the inner margin from one-third to the anal angle. The hindwings are whitish-yellowish. The larvae feed on ''Callistemon salignus ''Melaleuca salicina'', commonly known as willow bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilostibes Serpta
''Pilostibes serpta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1901. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ... is about 27 mm. The forewings are light ochreous fuscous, with central and marginal diffusions of darker fuscous and black or white and dark fuscous markings. There is a subcostal black line from near the base to beyond half the costa, interrupted near the base and dotted with white dots throughout. A band of ground colour suffused with bluish white separates this costal line from a median fuscous diffusion. In this darker area are two circuitous white-lined rounded figures answe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilostibes Embroneta
''Pilostibes embroneta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1902. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan is 30–46 mm. The forewings are pale brown, with a very few scattered dark fuscous scales and a broad streak from the base of the costa to beyond the middle of the disc, toothed above at one-third and beneath at two-thirds, white, edged with dark fuscous, the apical third narrow and wholly dark fuscous. The hindwings are whitish, slightly brownish-tinged. The larvae feed on ''Callistemon ''Callistemon'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae, first described as a genus in 1814. The entire genus is endemic to Australia but widely cultivated in many other regions and naturalised in scattered locations. Their status as a se ...'' species. They bore in the stem of their host plant. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xyloryctidae
Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a wingspan of up to 66 mm, making them giants among the micromoths. The first recorded instance of a common name for these moths comes from Swainson's ''On the History and Natural Arrangement of Insects'', 1840, where members of the genus '' Cryptophasa'' are described as hermit moths. This is an allusion to the caterpillar's habit of living alone in a purely residential burrow in a tree branch, to which it drags leaves at night, attaching them with silk to the entrance to the burrow and consuming the leaves as they dry out. The name 'timber moths' was coined by the Queensland naturalist Rowland Illidge in 1892, later published in 1895,Illidge, R., 1895: Xylorycts, or timber moths. ''Queensland Nat. Hist. Soc. Trans.,'' 1, 29–34. and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Edward Meyrick came from a Welsh clerical family and was born in Ramsbury on the Kennet to a namesake father. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He actively pursued his hobby during his schooling, and one colleague stated in 1872 that Meyrick "has not left a lamp, a paling, or a tree unexamined in which a moth could possibly, at any stage of its existence, lie hid." Meyrick began publishing notes on microlepidopterans in 1875, but when in December, 1877 he gained a post at The King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales, there were greater opportunities for indulging his interest. He stayed in Australia for ten years (from 1877 until the end of 1886) working at Syd ... [...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] |
