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Sceptea
''Sceptea'' is a moth genus in the family Autostichidae. Its name comes from the Greek ' meaning "to be considered". Species * '' Sceptea aequepulvella'' (Chambers, 1872) * '' Sceptea decedens'' Walsingham, 1911 References Symmocinae {{Symmocinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sceptea Aequepulvella
''Sceptea aequepulvella'' is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers Vactor Tousey Chambers (commonly V.T. Chambers) (6 August 1830, Burlington, Kentucky – 7 August 1883, in Covington, Kentucky) was an American entomologist who specialized in Microlepidoptera. He along with James Brackenridge Clemens, was a pione ... in 1872. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are ocherous brown, heavily overlaid with black scales especially along the edges and towards the apex. At the end of the cell is a poorly defined blackish dot and on the middle of the fold is a similar dot. The hindwings are bluish fuscous. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sceptea Decedens
''Sceptea decedens'' is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco). The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, suffused and sprinkled with olivaceous fuscous, tending to become concentrated in an ill-defined streak along the fold, a spot on the middle of the cell, another at the end of the cell becoming absorbed in an indistinct oblique transverse fascia from costal to dorsal the cilia, a subterminal shade, and a few dark spots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are brownish grey. References Moths described in 1911[...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] |
Genus
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 above species and below family. 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 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. phylogenetic analysis should c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autostichidae
Autostichidae is a family of moths in the moth superfamily Gelechioidea __NOTOC__ Gelechioidea (from the type genus '' Gelechia'', "keeping to the ground") is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths. It is a large .... Subfamilies * Autostichinae Le Marchand, 1947 * Deocloninae Hodges, 1998 * Glyphidocerinae Hodges, 1998 * Holcopogoninae Gozmány, 1967 * Oegoconiinae Leraut, 1992 * Symmocinae Gozmány, 1957 References *Autostichidae at funet Gelechioidea Moth families {{Autostichidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
