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Pseudosphetta Fissigna
''Pseudosphetta'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by 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 ... in 1926. Species *'' Pseudosphetta fissigna'' Hampson, 1926 Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo *'' Pseudosphetta moorei'' (Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887) Sri Lanka, Andamans, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram *'' Pseudosphetta umbrosa'' Holloway, 2005 Borneo, Sumatra References Calpinae {{Calpinae-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] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...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] |
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings (''Catocala''); litter moths (Herminiinae); tiger, lichen, footman and wasp moths (Arctiinae (erebid moths), Arctiinae); tussock moths (Lymantriinae), including the arctic woolly bear moth (''Gynaephora groenlandica''); fruit-piercing moths (Calpinae and others); micronoctuoid moths (Micronoctuini); snout moths (Hypeninae); and zale (moth), zales, though many of these common names can also refer to moths outside the Erebidae (for example, Crambidae, crambid snout moths). Some of the erebid moths are called owlets. The sizes of the adults range from among the largest of all moths (around wingspan in the Thysania agrippina, white witch) to the smallest of the macromoths ( wingspan in some of the Micronoctuini). The coloration of the adu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum (London), Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a centre of research specialising in Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a ''cathedral of nature''—both exemplified by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudosphetta Fissigna
''Pseudosphetta'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by 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 ... in 1926. Species *'' Pseudosphetta fissigna'' Hampson, 1926 Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo *'' Pseudosphetta moorei'' (Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887) Sri Lanka, Andamans, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram *'' Pseudosphetta umbrosa'' Holloway, 2005 Borneo, Sumatra References Calpinae {{Calpinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudosphetta Moorei
''Pseudosphetta'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1926. Species *''Pseudosphetta fissigna ''Pseudosphetta'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse ...'' Hampson, 1926 Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo *'' Pseudosphetta moorei'' (Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887) Sri Lanka, Andamans, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram *'' Pseudosphetta umbrosa'' Holloway, 2005 Borneo, Sumatra References Calpinae {{Calpinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudosphetta Umbrosa
''Pseudosphetta'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1926. Species *''Pseudosphetta fissigna'' Hampson, 1926 Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo *''Pseudosphetta moorei ''Pseudosphetta'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1926. Species *''Pseudosphetta fissigna ''Pseudosphetta'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Ham ...'' (Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887) Sri Lanka, Andamans, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram *'' Pseudosphetta umbrosa'' Holloway, 2005 Borneo, Sumatra References Calpinae {{Calpinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
