Metarbela Trisignata
''Metarbela trisignata'' is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and e .... References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog Endemic fauna of Namibia Metarbela Moths described in 1929 {{Metarbelinae-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Max Gaede
Max Gaede (29 November 1871 – 27 October 1946) was a German engineer and entomologist of international fame who described several hundred of new species of Lepidoptera, mainly African Noctuidae. He became a member of the Internationaler Entomologischer Verein in 1899. Many Lepidoptera species have been named after Max Gaede. Some of them are: * '' Zekelita gaedei'' Lödl, 1999 * '' Decachorda gaedei'' Dufrane 1953 * '' Astyloneura gaedei'' Alberti, 1957 * ''Eutelia gaedei'' Hacker & Fibiger, 2006 * ''Zamarada gaedei'' D. S. Fletcher, 1974 * '' Hypocala gaedei'' Berio, 1955 * ''Ozarba gaedei ''Ozarba'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1865. Species *'' Ozarba abscissa'' (Walker, 1858) Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nam ...'' Berio, 1940 * '' Athetis gaedei'' Berio, 1955 * '' Callyna gaedei'' Hacker & Fibiger, 2006 Works Some of the publications of Max Gaede ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cossidae
The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are nocturnal Lepidoptera found worldwide, except the Southeast Asian subfamily Ratardinae, which is mostly active during the day. This family includes many species with large caterpillars and moths with a wingspan from . These moths are mostly grey; some have long, narrow wings and resemble hawkmoths (Sphingidae) which are more advanced macrolepidoptera, however. Many are twig, bark, or leaf mimics, and Cossidae often have some sort of large marking at the tip of the forewing uppersides, conspicuous in flight, but resembling a broken-off twig when the animals are resting. Caterpillars are smooth with a few hairs. Most cossid caterpillars are tree borers, in some species taking up to three years to mature. The caterpillars pupate within their tunnels; ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups, the largest being the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Endemic Fauna Of Namibia
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example ''Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. ''Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Metarbela
''Metarbela'' is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae described by William Jacob Holland in 1893. Species * '' Metarbela abdulrahmani'' Lehmann, 2008 * '' Metarbela alluaudi'' Le Cerf, 1914 * '' Metarbela bifasciata'' Gaede, 1929 * '' Metarbela bipuncta'' Hampson, 1920 * '' Metarbela bueana'' Strand, 1912 * '' Metarbela chidzingai'' Lehmann, 2008 * '' Metarbela cinereolimbata'' Le Cerf, 1914 * '' Metarbela costistrigata'' Hampson, 1920 * '' Metarbela cremorna'' Hampson, 1920 * ''Metarbela cymaphora'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Metarbela dialeuca'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Metarbela diodonta'' Hampson, 1916 * '' Metarbela distincta'' Le Cerf * ''Metarbela erecta'' Gaede, 1929 * ''Metarbela fumida'' Karsch, 1896 * ''Metarbela funebris'' Gaede, 1929 * ''Metarbela haberlandorum'' Lehmann, 1997 * ''Metarbela inconspicua'' Gaede, 1929 * ''Metarbela kobesi'' Lehmann, 2007 * ''Metarbela laguna'' Hampson, 1920 * ''Metarbela latifasciata'' Gaede, 1929 * ''Metarbela leucostigma'' (Hampson, 1910) * ''Me ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |