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Schinia Pulchripennis
''Schinia pulchripennis'', or the common flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae that is distributed throughout North America, including California and Nevada. Reproduction and development of the moth mainly occurs on '' Orthocarpus purascens'' of the plant family Orobanchaceae. This plant is also the larvae's food source. In addition to ''O. puprascens'', ''S. pulchripennis'' also consumes the nectar on a variety of other plants. Description ''S. pulchripennis'' have magenta forewings with pale yellow regions and dark brown hind wings with a white center. Additionally, the top of their thorax contains purple, grey, and black hair. Contrarily, the bottom of their thorax and abdomen contain yellow hair. The moth also has a wingspan that ranges from 17-21 mm. Distribution and habitat The habitats of the moth include the desert (e.g. Mojave desert) and cismontane California. Development Reproduction Prior to reproduction, females remain at the blossom of ''O. p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Schinia'', commonly called flower moths, is a large genus of moths belonging to the family Noctuidae. The genus has a Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical region ... distribution with the vast majority of species being found in North America, many with a very restricted range and larval food plant. Species and food plants Unpublished species *''Schinia'' ''avemensis''''Schinia'' n. sp. nr. ''avemensis'' t Moth Photographers Group. Retrieved on 2009-12-17. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q7431344[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helicoverpa
''Helicoverpa'' is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by David F. Hardwick in 1965. Some species are among the worst Lepidopteran agricultural pests in the world, and three species (''H. armigera'', ''H. zea'', and ''H. punctigera'') migrate long distances both with and without human transportation, mixing resistance alleles along the way. Extant species * '' Helicoverpa armigera'' (Hübner, 1805) - cotton bollworm * ''Helicoverpa assulta'' (Guenée, 1852) * '' Helicoverpa atacamae'' Hardwick, 1965 * '' Helicoverpa fletcheri'' Hardwick, 1965 * '' Helicoverpa gelotopoeon'' (Dyar, 1921) * '' Helicoverpa hardwicki'' Matthews, 1999 * '' Helicoverpa hawaiiensis'' Quaintance & Brues, 1905 * '' Helicoverpa helenae'' Hardwick, 1965 * '' Helicoverpa pallida'' Hardwick, 1965 * '' Helicoverpa prepodes'' Common, 1985 * ''Helicoverpa punctigera'' Wallengren, 1860 * '' Helicoverpa titicacae'' * '' Helicoverpa toddi'' Hardwick, 1965 * ''Helicoverpa zea ''Helicoverpa ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schinia
''Schinia'', commonly called flower moths, is a large genus of moths belonging to the family Noctuidae. The genus has a Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ... distribution with the vast majority of species being found in North America, many with a very restricted range and larval food plant. Species and food plants Unpublished species *''Schinia'' ''avemensis''''Schinia'' n. sp. nr. ''avemensis'' t Moth Photographers Group. Retrieved on 2009-12-17. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q7431344[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layia Platyglossa
''Layia platyglossa'', commonly called coastal tidytips, is an annual wildflower of the family Asteraceae, native to western North America. Distribution Tidytips was formerly found throughout low-elevation dry habitats in California including the Mojave Desert and into Arizona and Utah.USDA . accessed 11/10/2010 In pre-European times this plant was common in solid stands at lower elevations. Found in grassy valley floors, slopes of hills, openings in and , coastal plains, and in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layia Fremontii
''Layia fremontii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Frémont's tidytips. Both its common name, and its specific epithet are derived from John C. Frémont. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the northern Coast Ranges, the Central Valley, and the Sierra Nevada foothills. Description ''Layia fremontii'' is an annual herb growing a nonglandular erect stem to a maximum height approaching 40 centimeters. The linear or lance-shaped leaves are somewhat fleshy, with the lower ones multilobed and approaching 7 centimeters in maximum length. The flower head has a base of phyllaries with fuzzy margins and hairy, bumpy surfaces. Like many other species of tidytips, the ray florets are bright yellow tipped neatly with white. The disc florets are yellow with purple anthers. The fruit is a hairy achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasthenia Californica
''Lasthenia californica'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name California goldfields. It is native to western North America. Description ''L. californica'' is an Annual plant, annual herb approaching a maximum height near , but generally staying much smaller. The plant is quite variable in appearance across subspecies and climates. The leaves are hairy, somewhat linear in shape, and about long. Individuals growing along the coast may have fleshy leaves. Between March and May, the hairy stems are topped by inflorescences of flower heads, across, with hairy phyllaries. The head contains many yellow disc florets with a fringe of about 10 small ray florets. Large populations of this species bloom at once in the spring to produce the carpets of yellow on hillsides and in meadows that give the plant its common name. The seed sometimes has brownish scales at the tip. ''Crocidium multicaule'' is similar in appearance, but most of its leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptantha
''Cryptantha'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. They are known commonly as cat's eyes and popcorn flowers (the latter name is also used to refer to the closely related genus ''Plagiobothrys'',Hasenstab-Lehman, K. E. and M. G. Simpson. (2012)Cat's eyes and popcorn flowers: phylogenetic systematics of the genus ''Cryptantha'' s. l. (Boraginaceae).''Systematic Botany'' 37(3), 738-57. and members of the subtribe of ''Amsinckiinae''). They are distributed throughout western North America and western South America, but they are absent from the regions in between. These are annual or perennial herbs usually coated in rough hairs and bearing rounded flower corollas that are almost always white, but are yellow in a few species. Several morphological characters are used to distinguish species from one another, but the most definitive is the form of the nutlet, which varies in shape, size, color, and pattern of attachment. Systematics The genus has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Amplectens
''Allium amplectens'', the narrowleaf onion, is a species of flowering plant. It is a onion native to the west coast of the United States, in Oregon, Washington State and California, also British Columbia in Canada. It grows in woods and especially in clay and serpentine soils. Description Growing to tall and broad, this herbaceous perennial grows from a pinkish-brown bulb and sends up a naked green stem topped with an inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ... wrapped in bright pink or magenta bracts. These open to produce between 10 and 50 shiny white or pale pink flowers, each under a centimeter wide. The six stout stamens and the ovary are white or tinted pink or lavender.Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert ( ; mov, Hayikwiir Mat'aar; es, Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. It is located primarily in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada, with small portions extending into Arizona and Utah. The Mojave Desert, together with the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, forms a larger North American Desert. Of these, the Mojave is the smallest and driest. The Mojave Desert displays typical basin and range topography, generally having a pattern of a series of parallel mountain ranges and valleys. It is also the site of Death Valley, which is the lowest elevation in North America. The Mojave Desert is often colloquially called the "high desert", as most of it lies between . It supports a diversity of flora and fauna. The desert supports a number of human activities, including recreation, ranching, and military training. ... [...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] |
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 , the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms (measured at the fingertips) to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stood at and owned one of the largest wingspans at . Wingspan of aircraft The wingspan of an aircraft is always measured in a straight line, from wingtip to wingtip, independently of wing shape or sweep. Implications for aircraft design and anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orobanchaceae
Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family of mostly parasitic plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera (e.g., ''Pedicularis'', ''Rhinanthus'', ''Striga'') were formerly included in the family Scrophulariaceae ''sensu lato''. With its new circumscription, Orobanchaceae forms a distinct, monophyletic family. From a phylogenetic perspective, it is defined as the largest crown clade containing '' Orobanche major'' and relatives, but neither ''Paulownia tomentosa'' nor ''Phryma leptostachya'' nor '' Mazus japonicus''. The Orobanchaceae are annual herbs or perennial herbs or shrubs, and most (all except ''Lindenbergia'', ''Rehmannia'' and ''Triaenophora'') are parasitic on the roots of other plants—either holoparasitic or hemiparasitic (fully or partly parasitic). The holoparasitic species lack chlorophyll and therefore cannot perform photosynthesis. Description Orobanchaceae is the largest of the 20–28 dicot fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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