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Wurthiini
Wurthiini is a tribe of the species-rich subfamily Spilomelinae in the pyraloid moth family Crambidae. Description Adult Wurthiini are small to medium-sized moths with wing spans of normally 20 to over 30 mm, whereas adults of ''Niphopyralis'' are usually somewhat smaller, with wingspans of 12 to 22 mm, and the males being smaller than the females. In the male genitalia, the uncus consists of a single head bearing stiff chaetae, or it is bicapitate (''Niphopyralis''). The tegumen-vinculum complex is more or less elongate rounded. The valvae are slender and tapering towards the apex, with the costa weakly to strongly concave (e.g. in ''Apilocrocis novateutonialis''; see ). The juxta is usually deeply split or divided into two juxta arms (a synapomorphy of the tribe). The fibula is broad triangular and ventrally directed. On its mesal side, the valva sacculus is produced as a strongly sclerotised arm that usually ends dorsally in a broad, spinulose tip or a needleshap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spilomelinae
Spilomelinae is a very species-rich subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. With 4,135 described species in 344 genera worldwide, it is the most speciose group among pyraloidea, pyraloids. Description Imagines – the adult life stage – vary considerably in size: the forewing span ranges from 11.5 mm e.g. in ''Metasia'' to 50 mm in the robust-bodied ''Eporidia''. In resting position, the moths exhibit a characteristic triangular shape, with the wings usually folded over the abdomen, the forewings covering the hindwings. Some Spilomelinae diverge from this common resting pattern, like ''Maruca'' with widely spread wings, and ''Atomopteryx'' and ''Lineodes'' with narrow wings folded along the body. All Spilomelinae moths have well developed Insect morphology#Compound eyes and ocelli, compound eyes, Insect morphology#Antennae, antennae and Insect mouthparts, mouthparts, although in the genera ''Niphopyralis'' and ''Siga'' the proboscis i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niphopyralis
''Niphopyralis'' is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae. Description Caterpillars The reports on larvae are somewhat divergent, depending on the species and the condition of the larvae (fresh versus alcohol-preserved): The fully-grown caterpillar of ''Niphopyralis myrmecophila'' (according to material preserved in alcohol) is approximately 14 mm in length, 4.4 mm thick at its largest diameter, and completely colourless, with the spiracles visible as fine, shiny colourless dots. The larval body is naked, hardly flattened, markedly tapered anteriorly and posteriorly, with all segments bulging out almost in a physogastric way. The head is small and prognathous. The thoracal legs are well developed, the prolegs are strongly reduced, and only at high magnification the single circle of crochets and the small papilla are visible; the anal prolegs are completely reduced, but this may be due to the investigated larvae being in the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyraloidea
The Pyraloidea (pyraloid moths or snout moths) are a moth superfamily containing about 16,000 described species worldwide, and probably at least as many more remain to be described. They are generally fairly small moths, and as such, they have been traditionally associated with the paraphyletic Microlepidoptera. This superfamily used to contain the Hyblaeidae, Thyrididae, Alucitidae (plus Tineodidae), Pterophoridae, and Pyralidae. The first four families are now each split off as a distinct superfamily. Nowadays, Pyralidae are usually split into the Pyralidae sensu stricto and the Crambidae, as both groups have been shown to be monophyletic and a sister group. Some genera (e.g. ''Micronix'' and '' Tanaobela'') still defy easy classification and have been variously assigned to the Crambidae or the Pyralidae. Among all Lepidoptera, pyraloids show the most diverse life history adaptations. The larvae of most species feed on living plants either internally or externally as leaf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loxocorys
''Loxocorys'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by Edward Meyrick in 1894, and has long been considered a synonym of ''Luma (moth), Luma'' before it was reinstated as genus with the sole species ''Loxocorys sericea'' (Arthur Gardiner Butler, Butler, 1879). A phylogenetic analysis showed that ''Loxocorys'' is placed in the Spilomelinae tribe (biology), tribe Wurthiini, and in genitalia morphology it shares similarities with ''Niphopyralis''. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10787079 Crambidae genera Taxa named by Edward Meyrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Karl Johann Roepke
Walter Karl Johann Roepke (18 September 1882, Kreis Hohensalza, Hohensalza – 7 February 1961, Wageningen) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Roepke was educated in the University of Berlin and the University of Zürich where he took his PhD degree in 1907. From 1908−1911 he was on the staff of the Experiment Station at Salatiga, in Java becoming acting director in 1911−12 and director from 1912−18. From 1918−19 he was entomologist at the Institute for Plant Diseases, Buitenzorg and from 1919 he was professor at the Agricultural College, Wageningen. He retired in 1953. Roepke was the author of entomological papers on the butterflies of Java and Indomalaya; he described many new taxa. His collection of Hesperiidae from Indomalaya is in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden. References *Howard, L. O. (1930). ''History of Applied Entomology (Somewhat Anecdotal)''. Smiths. Miscell. Coll. 84 X+1-564. {{DEFAULTSORT:Roepk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antilles
The Antilles (; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Antiy; es, Antillas; french: Antilles; nl, Antillen; ht, Antiy; pap, Antias; Jamaican Patois: ''Antiliiz'') is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes the larger islands of the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola (subdivided into the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands), though a part of the West Indies, is generally not included among the Antillean islands. Geographically, the Antillean islands are generally consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palearctic Realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Siberian region; the Mediterranean Basin; the Sahara and Arabian Deserts; and Western, Central and East Asia. The Palaearctic realm also has numerous rivers and lakes, forming several freshwater ecoregions. The term 'Palearctic' was first used in the 19th century, and is still in use as the basis for zoogeographic classification. History In an 1858 paper for the ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society'', British zoologist Philip Sclater first identified six terrestrial zoogeographic realms of the world: Palaearctic, Aethiopian/Afrotropic, Indian/Indomalayan, Australasian, Nearctic, and Neotropical. The six indicated general groupings of fauna, based on shared biogeography and large-scale geographic barriers to migration. Alfred Wallace ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriental Realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia. Indomalaya also includes the Philippines, lowland Taiwan, and Japan's Ryukyu Islands. Most of Indomalaya was originally covered by forest, and includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, with tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests predominant in much of India and parts of Southeast Asia. The tropical forests of Indomalaya are highly variable and diverse, with economically important trees, especially in the families Dipterocarpaceae and Fabaceae. Majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Realm
The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua), and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccan islands (the Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku), and the islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timor, often known as the Lesser Sundas. The Australasian realm also includes several Pacific island groups, including the Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and New Caledonia. New Zealand and its surrounding islands are a distinctive sub-region of the Australasian realm. The rest of Indonesia is part of the Indomalayan realm. In the classification scheme developed by Miklos Udvardy, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and New Zealand are placed in the Oceania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apilocrocis
''Apilocrocis'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. Species *'' Apilocrocis albicupralis'' (Hampson, 1918) *'' Apilocrocis albipunctalis'' (Hampson, 1918) *'' Apilocrocis brumalis'' (Barnes & McDunnough, 1914) *'' Apilocrocis cephalis'' (Walker, 1859) *'' Apilocrocis excelsalis'' (Schaus, 1912) *'' Apilocrocis glaucosia'' (Hampson, 1912) *'' Apilocrocis novateutonialis'' Munroe, 1968 *'' Apilocrocis pimalis'' (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926) *'' Apilocrocis pseudocephalis'' Munroe, 1968 *'' Apilocrocis steinbachi'' Munroe, 1968 *'' Apilocrocis yucatanalis'' Munroe, 1968 References Spilomelinae Crambidae genera Taxa named by Hans Georg Amsel {{Spilomelinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotachena
''Cotachena'' is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. Species *'' Cotachena aluensis'' Butler, 1887 *'' Cotachena alysoni'' Whalley, 1961 *'' Cotachena brunnealis'' Yamanaka, 2001 *'' Cotachena fuscimarginalis'' Hampson, 1916 *'' Cotachena heteromima'' Meyrick, 1889 *'' Cotachena hicana'' (Turner, 1915) *'' Cotachena histricalis'' (Walker, 1859) *'' Cotachena nepalensis'' Yamanaka, 2000 *'' Cotachena pubescens'' Warren, 1892 *'' Cotachena taiwanalis'' Yamanaka, 2001 Former species *'' Cotachena octoguttalis'' (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) *''Cotachena smaragdina ''Prophantis smaragdina'' is a species of moth of the family Crambidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875. It is found in subtropical Africa south of the Sahara. Food plants The larvae of this species infest coffee beans. Known food ...'' (Butler, 1875) References Spilomelinae Crambidae genera Taxa named by Frederic Moore {{Spilomelinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristebulea
''Aristebulea'' is a genus of 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 w ...s of the family Crambidae. Species *'' Aristebulea nobilis'' (Moore, 1888) *'' Aristebulea principis'' Munroe & Mutuura, 1968 References Spilomelinae Crambidae genera Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe {{Spilomelinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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