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Clerarcha
''Clerarcha'' is a genus of moths of the family 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 wing .... Species * '' Clerarcha agana'' Meyrick, 1890 * '' Clerarcha dryinopa'' Meyrick, 1890 * '' Clerarcha grammatistis'' Meyrick, 1890 * '' Clerarcha poliochyta'' Turner, 1902 References Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae genera {{Xyloryctidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clerarcha Grammatistis
''Clerarcha grammatistis'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. 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 Western Australia. The wingspan is 21–26 mm. The forewings are ochreous grey, irregularly and suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with white and with a black longitudinal dash beneath the costa near the base, as well as a small white spot in the disc at two-fifths, followed and often preceded by small suffused spots of black scales, and a small blackish suffused spot on the fold rather obliquely before this. There is a small transverse whitish spot in the disc at two-thirds, posteriorly suffusedly margined with black, and followed by some scattered black scale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clerarcha Agana
''Clerarcha agana'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. 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 Western Australia. The wingspan is 15–18 mm. The forewings are white, irrorated (sprinkled) with dark ochreous grey, the dorsal half suffused with pale grey and with four small roundish cloudy rather dark grey spots, the first three arranged in a longitudinal row in the disc at one-third, one-half, and two-thirds, the fourth directly beneath the third. The hindwings are pale whitish grey. The larvae feed on the flower spike of '' Banksia marginata''. References Xyloryctidae Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths described in 1890 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clerarcha Dryinopa
''Clerarcha dryinopa'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. 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 the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria. Classification The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are white, irregularly irrorated (sprinkled) with light ochreous and with light brownish-ochreous markings, irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous. There is a moderate cloudy streak from the base beneath the costa to the apex. A rather broad streak is found along the inner margin from near the base to the anal angle, confluent with a small spot on the submedian fold before the middle. There is an irregular cloudy transverse streak from be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clerarcha Poliochyta
''Clerarcha poliochyta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1902. 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 the Northern Territory and Queensland. The wingspan is 20–28 mm. The forewings are pale grey, mixed with white and dark fuscous and with a short narrow vertical dark fuscous line from the fold in the disc at one-third. There is a dark fuscous discal dot surrounded by white at two-thirds and a subterminal series of dark fuscous streaks on the veins, as well as a series of minute terminal dark fuscous dots, obsolete towards the costa. The hindwings are grey. The larvae feed on '' Melaleuca quinquenervia''. References Xyloryctidae Moths described ... [...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] |
