|
Taxonomy Of Lepidoptera
The insect order Lepidoptera consists of moths (43 superfamilies), most of which are night-flying, and a derived group, mainly day-flying, called butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea). Within Lepidoptera as a whole, the groups listed below before Glossata contain a few basal families accounting for less than 200 species; the bulk of Lepidoptera are in the Glossata. Similarly, within the Glossata, there are a few basal groups listed first, with the bulk of species in the Heteroneura. Basal groups within Heteroneura cannot be defined with as much confidence, as there are still some disputes concerning the proper relations among these groups. At the family level, however, most groups are well defined, and the families are commonly used by hobbyists and scientists alike. Unassigned fossil lepidopterans *Family unassigned (12 genera, 16 species) *Family Archaeolepidae *Family Mesokristenseniidae *Family Eolepidopterigidae *Family Undopterigidae Suborder Zeugloptera *Superfamily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micropterix
''Micropterix'' is a genus of small primitive metallic moths, in the insect order (biology), order lepidoptera within the family (biology), family Micropterigidae. The name was Species description, raised by the German entomologist, Jacob Hübner in 1825 and comes from the Greek language, Greek for ''mikros'', little and ''pterux'', a wing. The moths are distributed across Europe, south to North Africa and east as far as Japan. Description The moths are small, with the forewing ranging in size from 2.5 mm to 5.5 mm, and at rest they are held at a steep angle, tent-like over the body. Unique among the lepidoptera, the moths have chewing mouthparts rather than a proboscis and are most easily seen feeding, often in large aggregations, on the pollen of the flowers of many herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees.Eggs are translucent white and laid amongst vegetation on the surface of the soil.The life history of the early stages is more or less unknown but larva have been found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undopterigidae
''Undopterix'' is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing two species. ''Undopterix sukatshevae'' is known from Russia. The fossil remains are dated to the Lower Cretaceous. The second species, ''Undopterix cariensis'' is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil. Taxonomy ''Undopterix'' was initially classified in the Micropterigidae, but was later transferred to the Eolepidopterigidae Eolepidopterigoidea is an extinct superfamily of moths, containing the single family Eolepidopterigidae, although the genus ''Undopterix'' is sometimes placed in a separate family Undopterigidae. The type-genus of the family is ''Eolepidopterix'' ... family. It was designated as the type-genus for the new family Undopterigidae by Kozlov in 1988, but this is disputed. References Eolepidopterigoidea Fossil Lepidoptera Cretaceous insects Early Cretaceous animals of South America Cretaceous Brazil Fossils of Brazil Crato Formation Fossil taxa describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eriocraniidae
Eriocraniidae is a family of moths restricted to the Holarctic region, with six extant genera. These small, metallic moths are usually day-flying, emerging fairly early in the northern temperate spring. They have a proboscis with which they drink water or sap. The larvae are leaf miners on Fagales, principally the trees birch (''Betula'') and oak (''Quercus''), but a few on Salicales and Rosales. Characteristics Moths in this family are diurnal, flying in the spring at dawn, and in sunshine, sometimes in swarms around host trees. They sometimes come to light and also rest on twigs and branches. By tapping branches over a beating tray, they fall and remain motionless. The moths are small with a forewing length of 4–7 mm. Forewings marking are shining pale golden or purple and often mottled. The purple moths can be difficult to tell apart with certainty and may require genitalia examination. The female moth has a piercing ovipositor and the almost colourless eggs are laid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eriocranioidea
Eriocraniidae is a family of moths restricted to the Holarctic region, with six extant genera. These small, metallic moths are usually day-flying, emerging fairly early in the northern temperate spring. They have a proboscis with which they drink water or sap. The larvae are leaf miners on Fagales, principally the trees birch (''Betula'') and oak (''Quercus''), but a few on Salicales and Rosales. Characteristics Moths in this family are diurnal, flying in the spring at dawn, and in sunshine, sometimes in swarms around host trees. They sometimes come to light and also rest on twigs and branches. By tapping branches over a beating tray, they fall and remain motionless. The moths are small with a forewing length of 4–7 mm. Forewings marking are shining pale golden or purple and often mottled. The purple moths can be difficult to tell apart with certainty and may require genitalia examination. The female moth has a piercing ovipositor and the almost colourless eggs are laid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyseriocrania Subpurpurella
''Dyseriocrania subpurpurella'' is a diurnal moth from the family Eriocraniidae, found in most of Europe. The moth was first named by the English entomologist, Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1828. Description The wingspan of the moth ranges from 9–14 mm. The wings are metallic gold with sapphire-blue and ruby-red dots (strigulae) and an indistinct obscurely paler dorsal spot before tornus. The hindwings are brassy-grey, posteriorly purplish-tinged and like the forewings have grey cilia. The head is ochreous-grey-whitish mixed with dark fuscous. The moths are on the wing in April and May, fly on sunny days and come to light. On dull days they rest on the trunks and branches of oak. They do not feed. ;Sub-species * Form ''fastuosella'' – is a more richly marked sub-species with purple spots or striations. ;Ovum Eggs are laid within the leaf tissue of oak (''Quercus'' species), approximately 2 mm from the leaf margin. ;Larva The caterpillar is whitish with a pale-brow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dacnonypha
Eriocraniidae is a family of moths restricted to the Holarctic region, with six extant genera. These small, metallic moths are usually day-flying, emerging fairly early in the northern temperate spring. They have a proboscis with which they drink water or sap. The larvae are leaf miners on Fagales, principally the trees birch (''Betula'') and oak (''Quercus''), but a few on Salicales and Rosales. Characteristics Moths in this family are diurnal, flying in the spring at dawn, and in sunshine, sometimes in swarms around host trees. They sometimes come to light and also rest on twigs and branches. By tapping branches over a beating tray, they fall and remain motionless. The moths are small with a forewing length of 4–7 mm. Forewings marking are shining pale golden or purple and often mottled. The purple moths can be difficult to tell apart with certainty and may require genitalia examination. The female moth has a piercing ovipositor and the almost colourless eggs are laid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterobathmiidae
''Heterobathmia'' is a genus of Lepidoptera. It is the only genus in the suborder Heterobathmiina, as well as in the superfamily Heterobathmioidea and in the family Heterobathmiidae. Primitive, day-flying, metallic moths confined to southern South America, the adults eat the pollen of ''Nothofagus'' or southern beech and the larvae mine the leaves 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) ... (Kristensen, 1983, 1999). Most known species are undescribed (but see Kristensen and Nielsen, 1978, 1998). References * * Kristensen, N.P. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41–49 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterobathmioidea
''Heterobathmia'' is a genus of Lepidoptera. It is the only genus in the suborder Heterobathmiina, as well as in the superfamily Heterobathmioidea and in the family Heterobathmiidae. Primitive, day-flying, metallic moths confined to southern South America, the adults eat the pollen of ''Nothofagus'' or southern beech and the larvae mine the leaves 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) ... (Kristensen, 1983, 1999). Most known species are undescribed (but see Kristensen and Nielsen, 1978, 1998). References * * Kristensen, N.P. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41–49 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterobathmiina
''Heterobathmia'' is a genus of Lepidoptera. It is the only genus in the suborder Heterobathmiina, as well as in the superfamily Heterobathmioidea and in the family Heterobathmiidae. Primitive, day-flying, metallic moths confined to southern South America, the adults eat the pollen of ''Nothofagus'' or southern beech and the larvae mine the leaves 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) ... (Kristensen, 1983, 1999). Most known species are undescribed (but see Kristensen and Nielsen, 1978, 1998). References * * Kristensen, N.P. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41–49 in Kristensen, N.P. (Ed.). ''Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies''. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agathiphagidae
''Agathiphaga'' is a genus of moths, known as kauri moths. It is the only living in the family Agathiphagidae. This caddisfly-like lineage of primitive moths was first reported by Lionel Jack Dumbleton in 1952, as a new genus of Micropterigidae. The caterpillars feed only on "kauri" ('' Agathis'') and are currently considered the second most primitive living lineage of moths after Micropterigoidea. The larvae have been reported to be able to survive for 12 years in diapause, durability possibly a prerequisite to its possible dispersion around the Pacific islands in the seeds of ''Agathis''. Dumbleton described two species. '' Agathiphaga queenslandensis'' is found along the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, and its larvae feed on ''Agathis robusta''. ''Agathiphaga vitiensis'' is found from Fiji to Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, and its larvae feed on '' Agathis vitiensis''. A fossil member of Agathiphagidae, '' Agathiphagama,'' is known from the Burmese ambe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agathiphagoidea
''Agathiphaga'' is a genus of moths, known as kauri moths. It is the only living in the family Agathiphagidae. This caddisfly-like lineage of primitive moths was first reported by Lionel Jack Dumbleton in 1952, as a new genus of Micropterigidae. The caterpillars feed only on "kauri" (''Agathis'') and are currently considered the second most primitive living lineage of moths after Micropterigoidea. The larvae have been reported to be able to survive for 12 years in diapause, durability possibly a prerequisite to its possible dispersion around the Pacific islands in the seeds of ''Agathis''. Dumbleton described two species. ''Agathiphaga queenslandensis'' is found along the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, and its larvae feed on ''Agathis robusta''. ''Agathiphaga vitiensis'' is found from Fiji to Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, and its larvae feed on ''Agathis vitiensis''. A fossil member of Agathiphagidae, '' Agathiphagama,'' is known from the Burmese amber of Mya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aglossata
''Agathiphaga'' is a genus of moths, known as kauri moths. It is the only living in the family Agathiphagidae. This caddisfly-like lineage of primitive moths was first reported by Lionel Jack Dumbleton in 1952, as a new genus of Micropterigidae. The caterpillars feed only on "kauri" (''Agathis'') and are currently considered the second most primitive living lineage of moths after Micropterigoidea. The larvae have been reported to be able to survive for 12 years in diapause, durability possibly a prerequisite to its possible dispersion around the Pacific islands in the seeds of ''Agathis''. Dumbleton described two species. ''Agathiphaga queenslandensis'' is found along the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, and its larvae feed on '' Agathis robusta''. '' Agathiphaga vitiensis'' is found from Fiji to Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, and its larvae feed on '' Agathis vitiensis''. A fossil member of Agathiphagidae, '' Agathiphagama,'' is known from the Burmese amber o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
