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Telecrates
''Telecrates'' is a genus of moths of the family 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 wing .... Species * '' Telecrates basileia'' (Turner, 1902) * '' Telecrates desmochrysa'' Lower, 1896 * '' Telecrates laetiorella'' (Walker, 1864) * '' Telecrates melanochrysa'' (Turner, 1939) * '' Telecrates tesselata'' Lucas, 1900 References Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecrates
''Telecrates'' is a genus of moths of the family 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 wing .... Species * '' Telecrates basileia'' (Turner, 1902) * '' Telecrates desmochrysa'' Lower, 1896 * '' Telecrates laetiorella'' (Walker, 1864) * '' Telecrates melanochrysa'' (Turner, 1939) * '' Telecrates tesselata'' Lucas, 1900 References Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecrates Desmochrysa
''Telecrates desmochrysa'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1896. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia. The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are black with ochreous markings and a narrow oblique fascia from the costa at the base to about one-eighth the inner margin. There is an oblique fascia from beneath the costa at one-fourth to below the middle of the disc at about one-fourth. The upper portion is somewhat irregular and broken and there is a similar fascia in the middle of the wing, not reaching either margin, with a semi-circular excavation on the lower portion of the anterior edge, as well as an irregular spot on the costa at about five-sixths and a dentate (tooth-like) line immediately beneath this, somewhat curved, not reaching but approaching the anal angle. The hindwings are bronzy fuscous with a well-marked wedge-shaped orange spot along the base, but not reaching the inner m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecrates Laetiorella
''Telecrates laetiorella'' is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It is known from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. Description The wingspan is 16–23 mm. Head black, face pale yellow. Palpi whitish-yellowish, base of second joint and terminal joint except base dark fuscous. Antennae yellow-whitish, towards base dark fuscous. Thorax ochreous-yellow. Abdomen light ochreous yellowish, sprinkled with grey. Legs light ochreous-yellowish, anterior and middle pair suffusedly banded with grey. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin faintly sinuate, oblique; ochreous-yellow; two very broad deep purple fasciae, obscurely margined with dark fuscous; first almost basal, outer edge slightly convex; second hindmarginal, anterior edge rather strongly convex: cilia ochreous-yellow, on costa purple-fuscous, at anal angle with a broad deep purple bar. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 stalked; rather d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecrates Melanochrysa
''Telecrates melanochrysa'' is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It is known in Australia from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria. 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 24 mm. References Telecrates Moths described in 1939 {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecrates Tesselata
''Telecrates tesselata'' is a moth in the family of Xyloryctidae. It was described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1900. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from 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 about 20 mm. The forewings have a large pear-shaped blotch of white from the costa at the base widening to the inner margin and a second cream-white blotch from one-eighth to one-fourth the costa, obliquely outward to the middle of the wing. There is a third blotch from before the middle to half the costa as a band across the wing, widening out beyond the middle, and filling the inner margin from half to three-fourths the inner margin, the edge rounded and finely dentate. A fourth blotch is found to three-fourths the costa, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecrates Basileia
''Telecrates basileia'' 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 the Northern Territory, Queensland 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 17–19 mm. The forewings are deep shining purple and the extreme base and a median band are golden-yellow. The median band is transverse and biconcave. The hindwings are grey, towards the base ochreous-tinged. References [...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] |
