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Caryocolum Vicinella
''Caryocolum vicinella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, eastwards to the southern Ural. Taxonomy The wingspan is about 12 mm. Adults are on wing from July to September. The larvae feed on '' Cerastium arvense'', ''Dianthus'', ''Lychnis alpina'', ''Lychnis viscaria'', ''Minuartia'', '' Petrorhagia prolifera'', '' Petrorhagia saxifraga'', '' Silene inflata'', '' Silene nutans'', '' Silene vulgaris maritima'', ''Spergularia rubra'', ''Stellaria media'', ''Stellaria nemorum ''Stellaria nemorum'', also known by the common name wood stitchwort, is a stoloniferous herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of f ...'' and '' Stellaria uliginosum''. They may mine the leaves of their host plant when young, but this is unconfirmed. Older larvae mine the stem of their host plant, although other sources state they live among spun shoots. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Douglas
John William Douglas (15 November 1814 – 28 July 1905) was an English entomologist, chiefly interested in microlepidoptera. He was popularly known as "Jolly" Douglas for his ability to produce jocular doggerel in the style of Longfellow's ''Hiawatha''. Biography John William Douglas was born 1814 in Putney. His father came from Edinburgh. In a schoolboy prank gone wrong, a fellow student dropped a match into his pocket which contained crackers resulting in serious injury to his leg. Two years largely confined in bed forced him to take up botanical drawing and when he was able to walk again took up work at Kew as a botanical illustrator. He became interested in insects whilst working at Kew Gardens and published many papers and books on entomology. His most important work was ''The Natural History of the Tineina'' with the German Philipp Christoph Zeller, Englishman Henry Tibbats Stainton and a Swiss, Heinrich Frey. The ''Natural History of the Tineina'' appeared in English, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silene Nutans
''Silene nutans'' is a flowering plant in the genus ''Silene'', most commonly known as Nottingham catchfly. Description ''Silene nutans'' is a diploid, mainly outcrossing, herbaceous, perennial plant. It grows up to tall, from a branching, woody stock with a thick taproot. The lower leaves are up to long, spathulate and have a long stalk, while leaves higher on the plant are lanceolate, subsessile and acute; all the leaves are covered in soft hairs. The flowers are wide, long, and drooping, on short, viscid stalks. The petals are white or pinkish and divided into two narrow lobes. Each flower remains open for three nights as a means of preventing self-fertilisation; the flower reveals one whorl of stamens on the first night, the second whorl of stamens on the second night, and the three styles on the third night. The seeds are wide and kidney-shaped. Distribution ''Silene nutans'' is widespread across Europe, from southern Spain and Italy north to the British Isles and Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moths Described In 1851
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] |
Caryocolum
''Caryocolum'' is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. Distribution The genus is distributed between 28° N and 68° N throughout the Palearctic realm and is also represented by a small number of species in the Nearctic realm. Most of the species occur in mountainous areas. Selected species The genus consists of the following species: *''fischerella''-group **''Caryocolum fischerella'' (Treitschke, 1833) *''tischeriella''-group **''Caryocolum tischeriella'' (Zeller, 1839) *''alsinella''-group **''Caryocolum albifaciella'' (Heinemann, 1870) **''Caryocolum alsinella'' (Zeller, 1868) **''Caryocolum viscariella'' (Stainton, 1855) **''Caryocolum vicinella'' (Douglas, 1851) **''Caryocolum bosalella'' (Rebel, 1936) **''Caryocolum anatolicum'' Huemer, 1989 *''sciurella''-group **''Caryocolum sciurella'' (Walsingham, 1908) *''nepalense''-group **''Caryocolum nepalense'' Povolny, 1968 **''Caryocolum longiusculum'' Huemer, 1988 **''Caryocolum vartianorum'' Huemer, 1988 *''tetrameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silene Uniflora
''Silene uniflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name sea campion. Description ''Silene uniflora'' is a herbaceous perennial plant, similar in appearance to the bladder campion (''Silene vulgaris'') but with flowers generally solitary. It is generally prostrate, mat-forming. The leaves are linear, grey-green glabrous and glaucous in opposite and decussate pairs, the flowers white with five deeply notched petals, the 5 sepals fused and inflated to form a bladder. Distribution ''Silene uniflora'' is a maritime species, almost confined to Iceland, the Atlantic and Baltic Sea coasts of western Europe up to the Kola Peninsula in European Russia, and the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores. In Britain it also occurs rarely in the mountains. It has been introduced to Argentina and New Zealand. Subspecies The sea campion has five known subspecies, these are: *''S. uniflora subsp. cratericola'' (Franco) Franco: Native to Mount Pico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf Miner
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths ( Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta, the mother clade of wasps), and flies ( Diptera). Some beetles also exhibit this behavior. Like woodboring beetles, leaf miners are protected from many predators and plant defenses by feeding within the tissues of the leaves, selectively eating only the layers that have the least amount of cellulose. When attacking ''Quercus robur'' (English oak), they also selectively feed on tissues containing lower levels of tannin, a deterrent chemical produced in great abundance by the tree. The pattern of the feeding tunnel and the layer of the leaf being mined is often diagnostic of the insect responsible, sometimes even to species level. The mine often contains frass, or droppings, and the pattern of frass deposition, mine shape, and host plant identity are useful to de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellaria Uliginosum
''Stellaria'' is a genus of about 190 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include starwort, stitchwort and chickweed. Description ''Stellaria'' species are relatively small herbs with simple opposite leaves. It produces small flowers with 5 sepals and 5 white petals each usually deeply cleft, or none at all, all free. Stamens 10 or fewer. Uses Some species, including ''Stellaria media'' which is widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, are used as leaf vegetables, often raw in salads. This is a favored food of finches and many other seed-eating birds. Chickweeds are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including angle shades, heart and dart, riband wave, setaceous Hebrew character and the ''Coleophora'' case-bearers ''C. coenosipennella'' (feeds exclusively on ''Stellaria'' species), ''C. lineolea'' (recorded on ''S. graminea''), ''C. lithargyrinella'' (recorded on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellaria Nemorum
''Stellaria nemorum'', also known by the common name wood stitchwort, is a stoloniferous herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactace .... Description It reaches a height of 60 cm and blooms from May to August. The leaves are opposite, the upper leaves sessile and the lower leaves petiolate. The flowers are white, with 5 deeply bifid petals, 10 stamens and 3 styles. Distribution It is native to Europe and thrives in wet places of deciduous forests, such as beech forests. References External links nemorum Flora of Europe Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Caryophyllaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellaria Media
''Stellaria media'', chickweed, is an annual and perennial flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.Fernald, M. L. 1950. “Gray's Manual of Botany”. Eight Edition. American Book Company, New York, NY. 1632 pp. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout the world. This species is used as a cooling herbal remedy, and grown as a vegetable crop and ground cover for both human and poultry consumption. It is sometimes called common chickweed to distinguish it from other plants called chickweed. Other common names include chickenwort, craches, maruns, and winterweed. The plant germinates in autumn or late winter, then forms large mats of foliage. Description This species is an annual in colder climates, becoming evergreen and perennial in warmer zones, with weak slender stems, up to . Plants are sparsely hairy. ''Stellaria media'' has one line of fine hairs on the stem. The leaves are oval and opposite, the lower ones with stalks. Flowers are white and small with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spergularia Rubra
''Spergularia rubra'', the red sandspurry or red sand-spurrey, is a plant species in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, and it is present on other continents, including North and South America and Australia, as an introduced species and in many areas a common weed. It grows in a wide variety of habitat types. It is an annual or perennial herb producing a slender, glandular stem up to about 25 centimeters long. It is lined with slightly fleshy linear or threadlike leaves each under 2 centimeters long. The leaves may be tipped with hard points or spines, and they are accompanied by shiny white lance-shaped stipules. Flowers occur in the leaf axils and at the tips of the stems. They have hairy, glandular sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silene Vulgaris
''Silene vulgaris'', the bladder campion or maidenstears, is a plant species of the genus '' Silene'' of the family '' Caryophyllaceae''. It is native to Europe, where in some parts it is eaten, but is also widespread in North America, where it is a common wildflower in meadows, open woods, and fields. Gastronomy The young shoots and the leaves may be used as food in some countries of the Mediterranean region. The tender leaves may be eaten raw in salads. The older leaves are usually eaten boiled or fried, sauteed with garlic as well as in omelettes. Crete and Cyprus In Crete it is called ''agriopapoula'' () and the locals eat its leaves and tender shoots browned in olive oil. In Cyprus it is very widely eaten, so much that it has, in recent years, come back into being cultivated and sold in shops in bunches. Two of the common Cypriot names are ''strouthouthkia'' (; ) and ''tsakrithkia'' (; ). Italy In Italy the leaves of this plant may be used also as an ingredient in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silene Inflata
''Silene vulgaris'', the bladder campion or maidenstears, is a plant species of the genus ''Silene'' of the family ''Caryophyllaceae''. It is native to Europe, where in some parts it is eaten, but is also widespread in North America, where it is a common wildflower in meadows, open woods, and fields. Gastronomy The young shoots and the leaves may be used as food in some countries of the Mediterranean region. The tender leaves may be eaten raw in salads. The older leaves are usually eaten boiled or fried, sauteed with garlic as well as in omelettes. Crete and Cyprus In Crete it is called ''agriopapoula'' () and the locals eat its leaves and tender shoots browned in olive oil. In Cyprus it is very widely eaten, so much that it has, in recent years, come back into being cultivated and sold in shops in bunches. Two of the common Cypriot names are ''strouthouthkia'' (; ) and ''tsakrithkia'' (; ). Italy In Italy the leaves of this plant may be used also as an ingredient in risott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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