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Eumorpha Translineatus
''Eumorpha translineatus'' is a moth of the family Sphingidae. Distribution It is known from Brazil and Bolivia. Description It can be distinguished from all other ''Eumorpha'' species by the pale brown forewing upperside crossed by a series of narrow dark brown transverse lines resembling the pattern seen in species of ''Marumba'' and the almost circular dark brown patch near the middle of the posterior margin. It can be distinguished from ''Eumorpha adamsi'' by the lack of pink coloration on the hindwing upperside. Eumorpha translineatus MHNT CUT 2010 0 272 Serra do Mar, Santa Catarina, Brazil male dorsal.jpg, Male dorsal Eumorpha translineatus MHNT CUT 2010 0 272 Serra do Mar, Santa Catarina, Brazil male ventral.jpg, Male ventral Biology The larvae probably feed on Vitaceae The Vitaceae are a family of flowering plants, with 14 genera and around 910 known species, including common plants such as grapevines (''Vitis'' spp.) and Virginia creeper (''Parthenocissus ...
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Walter Rothschild
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Rothschild was the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926. Early life Walter Rothschild was born in London as the eldest son and heir of Emma Louise von Rothschild and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, an immensely wealthy financier of the international Rothschild financial dynasty and the first Jewish peer in England. The eldest of three children, Walter was deemed to have delicate health and was educated at home. As a young man, he travelled in Europe, attending the University of Bonn for a year before entering Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1889, leaving Cambridge after two years, he wa ...
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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 ...
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Sphingidae
The Sphingidae are a family of moths ( Lepidoptera) called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as “hornworms”; it includes about 1,450 species. It is best represented in the tropics, but species are found in every region.Scoble, Malcolm J. (1995): ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity'' (2nd edition). Oxford University Press & Natural History Museum London. They are moderate to large in size and are distinguished among moths for their agile and sustained flying ability, similar enough to that of hummingbirds as to be reliably mistaken for them. Their narrow wings and streamlined abdomens are adaptations for rapid flight. The family was named by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1802. Some hawk moths, such as the hummingbird hawk-moth or the white-lined sphinx, hover in midair while they feed on nectar from flowers, so are sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds. This hovering capability is only kno ...
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Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ...
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Bolivia
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Eumorpha
''Eumorpha'' (meaning "well formed") is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae. The genus is mostly found in North and South America. Species *'' Eumorpha achemon'' ( Drury, 1773) *'' Eumorpha adamsi'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) *'' Eumorpha analis'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) *'' Eumorpha anchemolus'' (Cramer, 1779) *'' Eumorpha capronnieri'' (Boisduval, 1875) *'' Eumorpha cissi'' (Schaufuss, 1870) *'' Eumorpha drucei'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) *'' Eumorpha elisa'' (Smyth, 1901) *'' Eumorpha fasciatus'' ( Sulzer, 1776) *'' Eumorpha intermedia'' (Clark, 1917) *'' Eumorpha labruscae'' ( Linnaeus, 1758) *'' Eumorpha megaeacus'' (Hübner, 1816) *'' Eumorpha mirificatus'' ( Grote, 1874) *'' Eumorpha neuburgeri'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) *'' Eumorpha obliquus'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) *'' Eumorpha pandorus'' (Hübner, 1821) *'' Eumorpha phorbas'' (Cramer, 1775) *'' Eumorpha satellitia'' ( Linnaeus, 1771) *'' Eumorpha strenua'' (Menetries, 1857) *'' Eumorpha translineatu ...
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Marumba
''Marumba'' is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. Species *'' Marumba amboinicus'' (C. Felder, 1861) *'' Marumba cristata'' (Butler, 1875) *'' Marumba diehli'' Roesler & Kuppers, 1975 *'' Marumba dyras'' (Walker, 1865) *'' Marumba fenzelii'' Mell, 1937 *'' Marumba gaschkewitschii'' (Bremer & Grey, 1853) *'' Marumba indicus'' (Walker, 1856) *''Marumba jankowskii'' (Oberthur, 1880) *'' Marumba juvencus'' Rothschild & Jordan, 1912 *'' Marumba maackii'' (Bremer, 1861) *'' Marumba nympha'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) *'' Marumba poliotis'' Hampson, 1907 *'' Marumba quercus'' (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) *'' Marumba saishiuana'' Okamoto, 1924 *'' Marumba spectabilis'' (Butler, 1875) *''Marumba sperchius'' (Menetries, 1857) *'' Marumba tigrina'' Gehlen, 1936 *'' Marumba timora'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) Gallery Marumba amboinicus MHNT CUT 2010 0 57 Ambon Isl 70m Indonesia male.jpg, '' Marumba amboinicus'' Marumba cristata titan M ...
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Eumorpha Adamsi
''Eumorpha adamsi'' is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, in 1903, and is known from Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay but is probably present throughout most of South America. Males have a forewing length of 40 millimetres. It is similar to '' Eumorpha translineatus'', but can be distinguished by the bright pink marginal band and tornal patch on the hindwing upperside. Adults have been recorded in February. The larvae probably feed on ''Vitis ''Vitis'' (grapevine) is a genus of 79 accepted species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. The genus is made up of species predominantly from the Northern Hemisphere. It is economically important as the source of grapes, ...'' species. References Eumorpha Moths described in 1903 Taxa named by Walter Rothschild Taxa named by Karl Jordan Sphingidae of South America {{Philampelini-stub ...
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Vitaceae
The Vitaceae are a family of flowering plants, with 14 genera and around 910 known species, including common plants such as grapevines (''Vitis'' spp.) and Virginia creeper (''Parthenocissus quinquefolia''). The family name is derived from the genus ''Vitis''. Most ''Vitis'' species have 38 chromosomes (n=19), but 40 (n=20) in subgenus ''Muscadinia'', while ''Ampelocissus'', '' Parthenocissus'', and ''Ampelopsis'' also have 40 chromosomes (n=20) and '' Cissus'' has 24 chromosomes (n=12). The family is economically important as the berries of ''Vitis'' species, commonly known as grapes, are an important fruit crop and, when fermented, produce wine. Species of the genus '' Tetrastigma'' serve as hosts to parasitic plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. Taxonomy The name sometimes appears as Vitidaceae, but Vitaceae is a conserved name and therefore has priority over both Vitidaceae and another name sometimes found in the older literature, Ampelidaceae. In the APG III system (2009 ...
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Moths Described In 1895
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 ...
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Taxa Named By Walter Rothschild
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to remain at odds over what belongs to a taxon and the criteria used for inclusion. If a taxon is given a formal scientific name, its use is then governed by one of the nomenclature codes specifying which scientific name is correct for a particular grouping. Initial attempts at classifying and ordering organisms (plants and animals) were set forth in Carl Linnaeus's system in ''Systema Naturae'', 10th edition (1758), as well as an unpublished work by Bernard and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. The idea of a unit-based system of biological classification was first made widely available in 1805 in the int ...
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