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Boydia
''Boydia'' is a genus of moths of the family Xyloryctidae. Species * ''Boydia criniferella'' Newman, 1856 * ''Boydia stenadelpha ''Boydia stenadelpha'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1905. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country compri ...'' (Lower, 1905) References Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boydia Stenadelpha
''Boydia stenadelpha'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1905. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ..., where it has been recorded from New South Wales. The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are cinerous-grey whitish with a streak of white along the fold from the base to the end of the cell, containing an oblique fuscous patch in the middle, and two or three fuscous dots on the upper half at and near the extremity. The hindwings are pale grey whitish, somewhat fuscous tinged around the apex.McMillan, Ian (11 October 2010)"''Boydia'' Newman, 1856" ''Xyloryctine Moths of Australia'' Retrieved 8 July 2020. References Xyloryctidae Moths described in 1905 {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boydia Criniferella
''Boydia criniferella'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by 1856. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ..., where it has been recorded from South Australia and Victoria. The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irregularly strewn with ashy-whitish scales and with an ill-defined dot of dark fuscous scales on the submedian fold at one-fourth, a second in the middle of the disc, a third on the fold beneath the second, a fourth in the disc at three-fourths, and traces of a fifth on the fold towards the anal angle. The second and fourth connected by an ashy-whitish streak, and a less marked similar streak connecting the other three. There are some dark fuscous scales on the veins posteriorly. The hindwings ... [...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 s ... [...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] |
