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Aenetus Eximia
''Aenetus eximia'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is known from southern Queensland, Australia, to Tasmania. The wingspan is about 70 mm. Adult males are blue-green. Females are green with two spots on each forewing. The hindwings are orange with green borders. The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including '' Syzygium smithii'', ''Eucalyptus grandis'', ''Waterhousea floribunda'', ''Tristaniopsis'', '' Doryphora sassafrass'', '' Daphnandra micrantha'', ''Glochidion ferdinandi'', '' Nothofagus moorei'', '' Prostanthera lasianthos'', ''Dodonaea viscosa'', '' Diploglottis australis'', '' Pomaderris aspera'', '' Dendrocnide excelsa'', ''Lantana camara ''Lantana camara'' (common lantana) is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family (Verbenaceae), native to the American tropics. It is a very adaptable species, which can inhabit a wide variety of ecosystems; once it has been introduc ...'' and '' Olearia argophylla''. They live in tunnels and dig down ... [...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 est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glochidion Ferdinandi
''Glochidion ferdinandi'', with common names that include cheese tree (see below), is a species of small to medium–sized trees, constituting part of the plant family Phyllanthaceae. They grow naturally across eastern Australia, from south–eastern New South Wales northwards to northern and inland Queensland, in rainforests and humid eucalypt forests. Frugivorous birds such as pigeons, figbirds and parrots consume its fruit. Description It grows as a woody shrub or small tree to , although occasionally reaching , with flaky brownish-grey bark. It has simple alternate-arranged elliptical leaves in length and wide; the species may be partly deciduous in winter. Flowering may occur at any time of year; the cheese tree has both single female and male flowers, which are found in groups of three. Both sexes are green-yellow, with the male flowers about 0.7 cm and the female 0.5 cm in diameter. The most notable feature are the small pumpkin-shaped fruit, which are green at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olearia Argophylla
''Olearia argophylla'', commonly known as musk daisy-bush, native musk or silver shrub, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with silvery branchlets, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences. Description ''Olearia argophylla'' is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to about , and has fissured to slightly stringy or flaky bark. Its branchlets are densely covered with fine, silvery or pale brown hairs pressed against the surface. The leaves are arranged alternately, egg-shaped to broadly elliptic, mostly long and wide on a petiole up to long, and have toothed edges. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface covered with minute, woolly, white or silvery hairs. The heads are wide and arranged in corymbs on the ends of branchlets, each corymb on a peduncle up to long. Each head or daisy-like "flower" has three t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lantana Camara
''Lantana camara'' (common lantana) is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family (Verbenaceae), native to the American tropics. It is a very adaptable species, which can inhabit a wide variety of ecosystems; once it has been introduced into a habitat it spreads rapidly; between 45ºN and 45ºS and more than in altitude. It has spread from its native range to around 50 countries, where it has become an invasive species. It first spread out of the Americas when it was brought to Europe by Dutch explorers and cultivated widely, soon spreading further into Asia and Oceania where it has established itself as a notorious weed, and in Goa it was introduced by the Portuguese. ''L. camara'' can outcompete native speci leading to a reduction in biodiversity. It can also cause problems if it invades agricultural areas as a result of its toxicity to livestock, as well as its ability to form dense thickets which, if left unchecked, can greatly reduce the productivity of farmlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dendrocnide Excelsa
''Dendrocnide excelsa'', commonly known as the giant stinging tree or fibrewood, is a rainforest tree in the family ''Urticaceae'' which is endemic to eastern Australia. It occurs from Tathra, New South Wales to Imbil in southeastern Queensland, and is very common at Dorrigo National Park and other rainforest walks in eastern Australia. The habitat of the giant stinging tree is subtropical, warm temperate or littoral rainforest, particularly in disturbed areas, previously flattened by storms or cyclones. Description ''Dendrocnide excelsa'' is a medium to large-sized tree with a buttressed base, sometimes over 40 metres tall and in excess of 6 metres wide at the base. The DBH is up to . The trunk can be fluted or flanged. The outer bark is grey and smooth, with minor corky markings. The trunk and buttresses are shaped in even curves. The leaves are alternate and toothed, heart-shaped and very large in positions of shade, exceeding 30 cm in length and a similar width. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomaderris Aspera
''Pomaderris aspera'', commonly known as hazel pomaderris, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with elliptic to lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves and greenish-yellow flowers. Description ''Pomaderris aspera'' is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of , and has dark brown, fairly smooth bark with some fissures and longitudinal irregularities. The branchlets are covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs when young. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped or egg-shaped, long and wide with more or less toothed edges. The upper surface of the leaves is dark green and impressed above the veins, the lower surface whitish with rust-coloured hairs on the veins. The flowers are borne in loose panicles long and are cream-coloured to greenish-yellow, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are long and there are no petals. Flowering occurs in October and November and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diploglottis Australis
''Diploglottis australis'', known as the native tamarind, is a well known rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It is easily identified by the large sausage shaped leaflets. The native tamarind grows in a variety of different rainforests, on basaltic and rich alluvial soils. The southernmost limit of natural distribution is Brogo near Bega (36° S) in New South Wales. They grow naturally along the east coast, northwards to near Proserpine (20° S) in tropical Queensland. Description left, Bunya_Mountains_National_Park.html" ;"title="Infructescence with edible fruit at Bunya Mountains National Park">Infructescence with edible fruit at Bunya Mountains National Park The tree is medium to large, with long and broad leaves. It can achieve a height of over 35 metres tall and a trunk diameter of 75 cm. The trunk is cylindrical and flanged at the base, somewhat resembling the trunk of the Coachwood. The branches bear Phyllotaxis, alternate leaves, which are large and pinnat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodonaea Viscosa
''Dodonaea viscosa'', also known as the broadleaf hopbush, is a species of flowering plant in the ''Dodonaea'' (hopbush) genus that has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. ''Dodonaea'' is part of Sapindaceae, the soapberry family. This species is notable for its extremely wide distribution, which it achieved only over the last 2 million years (from its region of origin in Australia) via oceanic dispersal. Harrington and Gadek (2009) referred to ''D. viscosa'' as having "a distribution equal to some world’s greatest transoceanic dispersers". Common names The common name hopbush is used for ''D. viscosa'' specifically and also for the genus as a whole. In the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, this plant is called ''virāli'' (விராலி). Australian common names include: broad leaf hopbush, candlewood, giant hopbush, narrow leaf hopbush, sticky hopbush, native hop bush, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prostanthera Lasianthos
''Prostanthera lasianthos'', commonly known as the Victorian Christmas bush or coranderrk , is a large shrub or small tree of the mint family, Lamiaceae, which is native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia. It grows up to 10 m (35 ft) high but is usually much less and is found in wet sclerophyll forests, often beside creeks. Its flowers, which appear in profuse sprays, are about 2 cm long and white or pale lilac, with purple and orange blotches in the throat. They appear in late spring and summer, and specifically around Christmas time in Victoria. The fragrant, toothed leaves are 4 to 12 cm (sometimes 15 cm) long and about 1.5 cm wide. Description ''Prostanthera lasianthos'' is the largest member of the mint bush genus '' Prostanthera''. Highly variable in habit, it ranges from a tree in sheltered forest to a shrub in exposed montane areas. Arranged oppositely (arising in pairs) along the stems on 0.6–1 cm lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nothofagus Moorei
''Nothofagus moorei'', commonly known as Antarctic beech, is an important Gondwana relict of the rainforests of the southern hemisphere. It occurs in wet, fire-free areas at high altitude in eastern Australia. The Antarctic beech group (Nothofagaceae) is an ancient type of tree, of significance to southern hemisphere botanical distribution. Plants in the Nothofagaceae are currently found in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and New Caledonia). Taxonomy Ferdinand von Mueller described the Antarctic beech in 1866, from material collected near the Bellinger River by Charles Moore. Once referred to as 'negrohead beech', but now as 'Antarctic beech' (not to be confused with its South American relative, ''Nothofagus antarctica'') is an evergreen tree native to the eastern highlands of Australia. ''N. moorei'' proposed to be renamed ''Lophozonia moorei'' in 2013. The change in name from ''Nothofagus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphnandra Micrantha
''Daphnandra micrantha'', the socketwood or Manning River socketwood is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows near streams in various types of rainforest. Restricted to the Manning River and Hastings River valleys (31° S) of northern eastern New South Wales. Also seen in ecotone areas dominated by brush box and tallowwood. Naming and taxonomy A member of the ancient Gondwana family Atherospermataceae. Previously considered one species, it is now published as four different types of ''socketwood'' by Richard Schodde. The generic name Daphnandra refers to a similarity of the anthers of the Bay Laurel. Greek ''daphne'' refers to the Bay Laurel, and ''andros'' from the Greek for man. ''Micanthra'' from the Greek refers to small flowers. A feature of Daphnandra apatela is where larger branchlets meet the main trunk, resembling a "ball and socket" type joint. Hence the common name of socketwood for this group of trees. Description A small to medium-sized tree, someti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepialidae
The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. Taxonomy and systematics The Hepialidae constitute by far the most diverse group of the infraorder Exoporia. The 60 genera contain at least 587 currently recognised species of these primitive moths worldwide. The genera '' Fraus'' (endemic to Australia), '' Gazoryctra'' ( Holarctic), '' Afrotheora'' (Southern African), and '' Antihepialus'' (African) are considered to be the most primitive, containing four genera and about 51 species with a mostly relictual southern Gondwanan distribution and are currently separated from the Hepialidae ''sensu stricto'' which might form a natural, derived group.Nielsen, E.S., Robinson, G.S. and Wagner, D.L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) ''Journal of Natural History'', 34(6): 823–87Abstract/ref> The mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
