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Cosmosoma Xanthocera
''Cosmosoma xanthocera'' is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by George Hampson in 1898. It is found in the Amazon region The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivi .... References xanthocera Moths described in 1898 {{cosmosoma-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency (now Tamil Nadu), where he became interested in moths and butterflies. When he returned to England, he became a voluntary worker at the Natural History Museum, where he wrote ''The Lepidoptera of the Nilgiri District'' (1891) and ''The Lepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon'' (1893) as parts 8 and 9 of ''Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera of the British Museum''. He then commenced work on '' The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths'' (four volumes, 1892–1896). Albert C. L. G. Günther offered him a position as an assistant at the museum in March 1895, and, after succeeding to his baronetcy in 1896, he was promoted to the acting assistant keeper in 1901. He then worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (suborder Rhopalocera) and neither subordinate taxon is used in modern classifications. Moths make up the vast majority of the order. There are approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, although there are also crepuscular and Diurnal animal, diurnal species. Differences between butterflies and moths While the Butterfly, butterflies form a monophyly, 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 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctiinae
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity''. Second ed. Oxford University Press. This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths (or tigers), which usually have bright colours, footmen, which are usually much drabber, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms. The scientific name Arctiinae refers to this hairiness (Gk. αρκτος = a bear). Some species within the Arctiinae have the word "tussock"' in their common names because they have been misidentified as members of the Lymantriinae subfamily based on the characteristics of the larvae. Taxonomy The subfamily was previously classified as the family Arctiidae of the superfamily Noctuoidea and is a monophyletic group. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon Region
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana. Most of the basin is covered by the Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia. With a area of dense tropical forest, it is the largest rainforest in the world. Geography The Amazon River begins in the Andes Mountains at the west of the basin with its main tributary the Marañón River and Apurimac River in Peru. The highest point in the watershed of the Amazon is the second biggest peak of Yerupajá at . The Amazon River Basin occupies the entire central and eastern area of South America, lying to the east of the Andes mountain range and extending from the Guyana Plateau in the north to the Brazilian Plateau in the sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmosoma
''Cosmosoma'' is a genus of tiger moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823. Species *'' Cosmosoma achemon'' (Fabricius, 1781) *'' Cosmosoma achemonides'' Dognin, 1907 *'' Cosmosoma admota'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 854 *'' Cosmosoma advena'' Druce, 1884 *'' Cosmosoma annexa'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 854 *'' Cosmosoma auge'' (Linnaeus, 1767) *'' Cosmosoma aurifera'' (Klages, 1906) *'' Cosmosoma batesii'' (Butler, 1876) *'' Cosmosoma beata'' (Butler, 1876) *'' Cosmosoma beatrix'' (Druce, 1884) *'' Cosmosoma biseriatum'' Schaus, 1898 *'' Cosmosoma bogotensis'' (Felder, 1874) *'' Cosmosoma bolivari'' Schaus, 1898 *'' Cosmosoma braconoides'' (Walker, 1854) *'' Cosmosoma bromus'' (Cramer, 775 *'' Cosmosoma caecum'' Hampson, 1898 *'' Cosmosoma centralis'' (Walker, 1854) *'' Cosmosoma cincta'' (Schaus, 1894) *'' Cosmosoma consolata'' (Walker, 1856) *'' Cosmosoma contracta'' (Walker, 1856) *'' Cosmosoma demantria'' Druce, 1895 *'' Cosmosoma determinata'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
