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Earias Perhuegeli
''Earias perhuegeli'', the rough bollworm, is a moth of the family Nolidae. The species was Species description, first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1977. It is found in the northern two-thirds of Australia and several islands in the Australasia, South Pacific. The wingspan is about 20 mm. The larvae feed on ''Gossypium australe'', ''Gossypium populifolium'', ''Abutilon otocarpum'', ''Abelmoschus ficulneus'', ''Hibiscus trionum'', ''Hibiscus panduriformis'', ''Alyogyne hakeifolia'' and ''Adansonia gregorii'', and are considered a pest of ''Gossypium hirsutum''. References Nolidae Agricultural pest insects Moths described in 1977 Moths of Australia {{Nolidae-stub ... [...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] |
Abelmoschus Ficulneus
''Abelmoschus ficulneus'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus '' Abelmoschus'', family Malvaceae. Commonly known as white wild musk mallow or native rosella, it is fibrous perennial with a woody stem. Its flowers are about an inch in diameter, either pink or white, with a rose center; its leaves are palmate. The species grows as a small erect shrub, tall and across. Leaves are long and wide, with a circular shape (heart-shaped near base). Leaves are rough on both sides, toothed, and have 3 to 5 lobes. Flower stock are covered in velvety hair, and the flowers themselves are across. The stocks are short and colored white to pink with a dark purple center. Flowers last a few days. The plant has small hairs which may cause irritation. The plant's seed heads are hairy and sticky, ovalar in shape and long and wide, with five ribs and a short beak. Seeds that are still in their growth period are medium to dark green, and when they are mature they turn dark brown, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agricultural Pest Insects
A pest is any animal or plant harmful to humans or human concerns. The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes. Humans have modified the environment for their own purposes and are intolerant of other creatures occupying the same space when their activities impact adversely on human objectives. Thus, an elephant is unobjectionable in its natural habitat but a pest when it tramples crops. Some animals are disliked because they bite or sting; snakes, wasps, ants, bed bugs, fleas and ticks belong in this category. Others enter the home; these include houseflies, which land on and contaminate food, beetles, which tunnel into the woodwork, and other animals that scuttle about on the floor at night, like cockroaches, which are often associated with unsanitary conditions. Agricultural and horticultural crops are attacked by a wide variety of pests, the most important being insects, mites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gossypium Hirsutum
''Gossypium hirsutum'', also known as upland cotton or Mexican cotton, is the most widely planted species of cotton in the world. Globally, about 90% of all cotton production is of cultivars derived from this species. In the United States, the world's largest exporter of cotton, it constitutes approximately 95% of all cotton production. It is native to Mexico, the West Indies, northern South America, Central America and possibly tropical Florida. Archeological evidence from the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico shows the cultivation of this species as long ago as 3,500 BC, although there is as yet no evidence as to exactly where it may have been first domesticated. This is the earliest evidence of cotton cultivation in the Americas found thus far. ''Gossypium hirsutum'' includes a number of varieties or cross-bred cultivars with varying fiber lengths and tolerances to a number of growing conditions. The longer length varieties are called "long staple upland" and the shorter length varie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adansonia Gregorii
''Adansonia gregorii'', commonly known as the boab and also known by a number of other names, is a tree in the family Malvaceae, endemic to the northern regions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory of Australia. Names The specific name "gregorii" honours the Australian explorer Augustus Gregory. The common name "boab" is a shortened form of the generic common name "boa", and is the most widely recognised common name It does, however, have a large number of other common names. Similar names include: * baobab — the common name for the genus as a whole, but often used in Australia to refer to the Australian species * Australian baobab * boabab was in common use from the late 1850s (Perhaps the origin of boab) * baob Gadawon is one of the names used by the local Aboriginal Australian groups. Other names include larrgadi or larrgadiy, which is widespread in the Nyulnyulan languages of the Western Kimberley. Other names include: * bottle tree or bottletree * cream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyogyne Hakeifolia
''Alyogyne hakeifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is endemic to the southern regions of Australia. The plant is similar to a ''Hibiscus'' and was assumed to be part of that genus for many years. It is known to have been cultivated in England since the mid nineteenth century. Description An erect shrub, up to three meters high, ''Alyogyne hakeifolia'' is densely covered in fine leaves. The species is known for its rapid growth, especially under favorable conditions. Flowering begins between May and August in its native habitat, and continues until February. The flowers are variously blue, purple, or various shades of creamy yellow; they become deeply colored and papery when spent. Blooms appear profusely after the first or second year, are deeply cupped in form, and have five large petals which open to reveal the deep red centre. The plant can be distinguished from ''Hibiscus'', another genus in the family Malvaceae, by the undivided stigma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibiscus Panduriformis
''Hibiscus panduriformis'', the yellow hibiscus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to much of Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Yemen, the Indian Subcontinent, and Myanmar. An erect shrub reaching , it is a minor weed of cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor p .... References panduriformis Flora of West Tropical Africa Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa Flora of East Tropical Africa Flora of South Tropical Africa Flora of Madagascar Flora of India (region) Flora of Assam (region) Flora of Sri Lanka Flora of Bangladesh Flora of Myanmar Plants described in 1768 Taxa named by Nicolaas Laurens Burman {{Hibisceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibiscus Trionum
''Hibiscus trionum'', commonly called flower-of-an-hour, bladder hibiscus, bladder ketmia, bladder weed, modesty, puarangi, shoofly, and venice mallow, is an annual plant native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. It has spread throughout southern Europe both as a weed and cultivated as a garden plant. It has been introduced to the United States as an ornamental where it has become naturalized as a weed of cropland and vacant land, particularly on disturbed ground. Description The plant grows to a height of , sometimes exceeding , and has white or yellow flowers with a purple centre. In the deeply pigmented centre of the flower, the surface features striations, which have been the subject of controversy about whether they act as a diffraction grating, creating iridescence. The pollinated but unripe seedpods look like oriental paper lanterns, less than across, pale green with purple highlights. The flowers of ''Hibiscus trionum'' can set seed via both outcrossing and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abutilon Otocarpum
''Abutilon otocarpum'', the desert lantern, is a small shrub of the family Malvaceae found in most parts of Australia. Description This shrub can grow to 60 cm tall, with flat leaves that alternate up its stem. Leaves of the desert lantern can grow to 1.5 – 6 cm long and are narrow to circular, hairy and toothed. The flowers are yellow, with 5 petals, borne singly on stalks originating at the bases of the leaves, often appearing clustered at the ends of the stems. The desert lantern differs from dwarf lantern flower ('' Abutilon fraseri'') and plains lantern-bush ('' Abutilon halophilum'') in that the petals are about the same length as the calyx, and from velvetleaf (''Abutilon theophrasti ''Abutilon theophrasti'' (velvetleaf, velvet plant, velvetweed, Chinese jute, China jute, crown weed, buttonweed, lantern mallow, butterprint, pie-marker, or Indian mallow) is an annual plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southern Asia. It' ...'') in that the tops of the fruitlets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolidae
Nolidae is a family of moths with about 1,700 described species worldwide. They are mostly small with dull coloration, the main distinguishing feature being a silk cocoon with a vertical exit slit. The group is sometimes known as tuft moths, after the tufts of raised scales on the forewings of two subfamilies, Nolinae and Collomeninae. The larvae also tend to have muted colors and tufts of short hairs. Formerly, this group was included in the Noctuidae. Subfamilies * Chloephorinae * Collomeninae * Eligminae * Nolinae * Risobinae Monotypic subfamilies * Afridinae – ''Afrida'' * Bleninae – '' Blenina'' * Diphtherinae – '' Diphthera'' (monotypic genus) * Eariadinae – '' Earias'' * Westermanniinae – ''Westermannia'' Genera ''incertae sedis'' The following genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes abov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gossypium Populifolium
''Gossypium'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Gossypieae of the mallow family, Malvaceae, from which cotton is harvested. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Old and New Worlds. There are about 50 ''Gossypium'' species, making it the largest genus in the tribe Gossypieae, and new species continue to be discovered. The name of the genus is derived from the Arabic word ''goz'', which refers to a soft substance. Cotton is the primary natural fibre used by humans today, amounting to about 80% of world natural fibre production. Where cotton is cultivated, it is a major oilseed crop and a main protein source for animal feed. Cotton is thus of great importance for agriculture, industry and trade, especially for tropical and subtropical countries in Africa, South America and Asia. Consequently, the genus ''Gossypium'' has long attracted the attention of scientists. The origin of the genus ''Gossypium'' is dated to around 5–10 million years a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gossypium Australe
''Gossypium australe'' is an endemic woody shrub, related to cotton, found in north western Australia. Preferring sandy soils near watercourses, it grows to about two or three feet tall. The leaves are grey and hairy, oval to elliptic, long and soft to the touch. Flowers are around long and present a pale pink mauve 'rose' with a deeper shade at the centre. Fruit are hairy, spherical and contain a bristly seed long., It is sometimes confused with Sturt's desert rose ''Gossypium sturtianum ''Gossypium sturtianum'', or Sturt's desert rose, is a woody shrub, closely related to cultivated cotton, found in most mainland states of Australia and the Northern Territory. It is also known as the Darling River rose, cotton rosebush and Au ...''. References australe Rosids of Western Australia Malvales of Australia Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Australia-rosid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
