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Blastobasis Glauconotata
''Blastobasis glauconotata'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in Kenya, where it is known from the central and western highlands and in the central mid-altitudes of the Ngaia Forest. The length of the forewings is 6.8–9.1 mm. The larvae feed on ''Afrocarpus falcatus'', ''Chaetacme aristata'', ''Cussonia spicata'', ''Drypetes gerrardii'', ''Elaeodendron buchananii'', ''Ekebergia capensis'', ''Mimusops kummel'', ''Prunus africana'', ''Rawsonia lucida'', ''Schrebera alata'', ''Solanum anguivi'', ''Stychnos mitis'', ''Toddalia asiatica'', ''Vepris nobilis'', ''Vepris simplicifolia'', ''Vepris trichocarpa'' and ''Warburgia ugandensis''. References Endemic moths of Kenya Moths described in 2010 Blastobasis Moths of Africa Taxa named by David Adamski {{Blastobasis-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Adamski
David Adamski is an American entomologist working as a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and a support scientist in the Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL), United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. He obtained a PhD degree from the Mississippi State University, Department of Entomology in 1987 after defending a dissertation, titled "The Morphology and evolution of North American Blastobasidae (Lepidoptera:Gelechioidea)". His research interests focus on alpha taxonomy, life histories and morphology of moths. Over the years, Adamski produced more than 80 scholarly publications, some in collaboration, shedding light on discernible groups of Lepidoptera including Gelechioidea, Tortricoidea, Pyralidoidea, and Noctuoidea. He studied divergent taxa within the Auchenorrhyncha and Sternorrhyncha, and Phytophagous Acari, as well as Gelechioidea and Blastobasidae The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schrebera Alata
''Schrebera alata'' is a plant in the family Oleaceae. It grows as a tree up to 15 m (50 ft) tall. The specific epithet ''alata'' is from the Latin meaning "winged", referring to the petioles. Its habitat is forests and woodland from altitude. ''Schrebera alata'' is native Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its ... and South Africa. File:Schrebera alata, blaar, Laeveld NBT.jpg, File:Schrebera alata, winterloof en vrugkapsules, a, Waterberg.jpg, References alata Flora of Africa Plants described in 1841 {{Oleaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blastobasis
''Blastobasis'' is the type genus of the gelechioid moth family Blastobasidae; in some arrangements these are placed in the case-bearer family (Coleophoridae) as a subfamily. Within the Blastobasidae, the subfamily Blastobasinae (or tribe Blastobasini, if united with the concealer moths) has been established to distinguish the ''Blastobasis'' lineage from the group around ''Holcocera'', but the delimitation is not yet well-resolved. The monophyly of this genus – the largest of its family, containing at present about half the described Blastobasidae species – is seriously in doubt. Many presumed relatives have been separated in small or even monotypic genera, which may actually represent specialized lineages within the ''Blastobasis'' assemblage. On the other hand, some formerly-independent genera are usually included in ''Blastobasis'' at the moment. ''Agnoea'', '' Auximobasis'', ''Euresia'' and '' Zenodochium'' are sometimes included here but considered distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moths Described In 2010
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 establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Moths Of Kenya
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. ''Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warburgia Ugandensis
''Warburgia ugandensis'', also known as Ugandan greenheart or simply greenheart tree, is a species of evergreen tree native to East Africa. Countries in which the plant species is found include Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The wood is resistant to insect attack and very strong. It was commonly used for the yoke pole of ox-wagons, the Disselboom. Early Indian immigrants to Kenya, working on the construction of the railway, used the leaves to flavor their curries before the chilli plant was commonly introduced. The flavor is hot and subtly different from chillies. Extracts of ''W. ugandensis'' have been reported to show some antimalarial, antifungal, and antibacterial properties '' in vitro'' or in animal models. Unsustainable overharvesting of the bark reduced the population of the ''longifolia'' subspecies to the Rondo Forest Reserve in Tanzania, which prompted the IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conserva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vepris Trichocarpa
''Vepris'' is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It comprises around 90 species, mainly from tropical Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands and at a lesser extent Arabia and India. Species , Plants of the World Online (PoWO) accepted the following species: *''Vepris adamaouae'' Onana *''Vepris afzelii'' (Engl.) Mziray *'' Vepris allenii'' I.Verd. *'' Vepris amaniensis'' (Engl.) Mziray *''Vepris ampody'' H.Perrier *'' Vepris aralioides'' H.Perrier *''Vepris araliopsioides'' Onana *''Vepris arenicola'' H.Perrier *'' Vepris arushensis'' Kokwaro *'' Vepris bachmannii'' (Engl.) Mziray *'' Vepris bali'' Cheek *''Vepris bilocularis'' (Wight & Arn.) Engl. *''Vepris boiviniana'' (Baill.) Mziray *'' Vepris borenensis'' (M.G.Gilbert) W.Mziray, synonym of ''Teclea borenensis'', unplaced name according to PoWO *'' Vepris bremekampii'' (I.Verd.) Mziray *'' Vepris calcicola'' H.Perrier *'' Vepris carringtoniana'' Mendonça *'' Vepris cauliflora'' H.Perrier *'' Vepris dainellii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vepris Simplicifolia
''Vepris'' is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It comprises around 90 species, mainly from tropical Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands and at a lesser extent Arabia and India. Species , Plants of the World Online (PoWO) accepted the following species: *''Vepris adamaouae'' Onana *''Vepris afzelii'' (Engl.) Mziray *'' Vepris allenii'' I.Verd. *''Vepris amaniensis'' (Engl.) Mziray *''Vepris ampody'' H.Perrier *''Vepris aralioides'' H.Perrier *''Vepris araliopsioides'' Onana *''Vepris arenicola'' H.Perrier *'' Vepris arushensis'' Kokwaro *''Vepris bachmannii'' (Engl.) Mziray *''Vepris bali'' Cheek *''Vepris bilocularis'' (Wight & Arn.) Engl. *''Vepris boiviniana'' (Baill.) Mziray *''Vepris borenensis'' (M.G.Gilbert) W.Mziray, synonym of ''Teclea borenensis'', unplaced name according to PoWO *''Vepris bremekampii'' (I.Verd.) Mziray *''Vepris calcicola'' H.Perrier *''Vepris carringtoniana'' Mendonça *''Vepris cauliflora'' H.Perrier *''Vepris dainellii'' (Pic.Serm.) Kokw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vepris Nobilis
''Vepris nobilis'' (syn. ''Teclea nobilis'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to the Arabian Peninsula and eastern Africa. A tree, chimpanzees (''Pan troglodytes'') use its leaves to repel the mosquito ''Anopheles gambiae''. References nobilis ''Nobilis'' is a contemporary fantasy tabletop role-playing game created by Jenna K. Moran, writing under the name R. Sean Borgstrom. The player characters are "Sovereign Powers" called ''the Nobilis''; each Noble is the personification of an ... Flora of Saudi Arabia Flora of Yemen Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa Flora of East Tropical Africa Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Flora of Rwanda Flora of Burundi Flora of Malawi Flora of Zambia Flora of Zimbabwe Plants described in 1992 Afromontane flora {{Rutaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toddalia Asiatica
''Zanthoxylum asiaticum'' is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. Under its synonym ''Toddalia asiatica'', it was the only species in the monotypic genus ''Toddalia'', now included in ''Zanthoxylum''. It is known by the English name orange climber. Description This is a liana with woody, corky, thorny stems that climb on trees, reaching up to 10 m in length. It has shiny green citrus-scented leaves, yellow-green flowers, and orange fruits about half a cm wide that taste like orange peel. The seeds are dispersed by birds and monkeys that eat the fruits. In particular, the scaly-breasted munia prefers to nest in these trees. Distribution It is native to many countries in Africa and Asia. Examples include South Africa where in Afrikaans it is called ''ranklemoentjie'', and in Venda, ''gwambadzi''. It is very popular among the Kikuyus of Central Kenya, where it is known as ''mururue'', Mauritius, where it is known as patte poule or properly .Kamau, Loice Njeri and Peter Mathi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solanum Anguivi
''Solanum anguivi'' is a plant indigenous to non-arid parts of Africa, and is commonly known as forest bitterberry or African eggplant, although the latter term is most commonly associated with ''Solanum aethiopicum ''Solanum aethiopicum'', the bitter tomato, Ethiopian eggplant, or nakati, is a fruiting plant of the genus ''Solanum'' mainly found in Asia and Tropical Africa. It is also known as Ethiopian nightshade, garden eggs, pumpkin-on-a-stick, and moc ...''. It is a traditional ethnomedicine in India. References * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q15533802 anguivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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