Titan Sphinx
''Aellopos titan'', the Titan sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. Distribution It has been found all the way from Maine in the United States through Central America and south to Argentina and Uruguay in South America. Description The wingspan is 55–65 mm. The body is dark brown with a wide white stripe across the abdomen. The wings are dark brown and the upperside of the forewing has a black spot at the end of the cell and two bands of translucent white spots. The upperside of the hindwing has pale patches along the costa and inner margin. Aellopos titan MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Minas Suriname male dorsal.jpg, Male dorsal Aellopos titan MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Minas Suriname male ventral.jpg, Male ventral Aellopos titan MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Minas Suriname female dorsal.jpg, Female dorsal Aellopos titan MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Minas Suriname female ventral.jpg, Female ventral Biology Adults are on wing yea ...
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Pantanal
The Pantanal () is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands. It is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay. It sprawls over an area estimated at between . Various subregional ecosystems exist, each with distinct hydrological, geological and ecological characteristics; up to 12 of them have been defined.Susan Mcgrath, photos by Joel Sartore, ''Brazil's Wild Wet'', National Geographic Magazine, August 2005 Roughly 80% of the Pantanal floodplains are submerged during the rainy seasons, nurturing a biologically diverse collection of aquatic plants and helping to support a dense array of animal species. Etymology The name "Pantanal" comes from the Portuguese word ''pântano'' that means "big wetland", "big bog", "big swamp", "big quagmire" or "big marsh" plus the suffix ''-al'', that means "abundance, agglomera ...
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Cephalanthus Occidentalis
''Cephalanthus occidentalis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae that is native to eastern and southern North America. Common names include buttonbush, common buttonbush, button-willow, buck brush, and honey-bells. Description ''Cephalanthus occidentalis'' is a deciduous shrub or small tree that averages in height, but can reach . The leaves are opposite or in whorls of three, elliptic to ovate, long and broad, with a smooth edge and a short petiole. The flowers are arranged in a dense spherical inflorescence in diameter on a short peduncle. Each flower has a fused white to pale yellow four-lobed corolla forming a long slender tube connecting to the sepals. The stigma protrudes slightly from the corolla. The fruit is a spherical cluster of achenes (nutlets). Taxonomy There are two varieties, not considered distinct by all authorities: *''Cephalanthus occidentalis'' var. ''occidentalis'' (syn. var. ''pubescens'') – common buttonbush. Eastern North ...
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Moths Of North America
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 esta ...
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Moths Described In 1777
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 establishe ...
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Aellopos
The genus ''Aellopos'' consists of large day-flying moths in the family Sphingidae. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. Species in this genus occur from Maine in the United States through Central America and down to Argentina and Uruguay in South America. Species *''Aellopos blaini'' (Herrich-Schaffer, 1869) *''Aellopos ceculus'' (Cramer, 1777) *''Aellopos clavipes'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) – clavipes sphinx moth *''Aellopos fadus'' (Cramer, 1775) – Fadus sphinx moth *''Aellopos tantalus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – Tantalus sphinx moth *''Aellopos titan'' (Cramer, 1777) – Titan sphinx moth Aellopos ceculus MHNT CUT 2010 0 309 Todos Santos Chapare Bolivia male.jpg, ''Aellopos ceculus'' Aellopos clavipes MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Mazatlán Mexico male.jpg, ''Aellopos clavipes'' Aellopos fadus MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 Manicoré Amazonas Brazil male.jpg, ''Aellopos fadus'' Aellopos tantalus MHNT CUT 2010 0 273 San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico male.jpg, ''Aellopos ta ...
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Randia Grandifolia
''Randia'' can refer to : * ''Randia'' (bird), a monotypic genus of bird containing a single species, ''Randia pseudozosterops'', also known as Rand's warbler * ''Randia'' (plant), a genus of plants of the family Rubiaceae * r/India, a subreddit on the social site Reddit. See also * Randhia Randhia is a village on Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India. Randhia was formerly a princely state. Villages in Amreli district {{India-hist-stub ...

Albizzia Adinocephala
''Albizia'' is a genus of more than 160 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. The genus is pantropical, occurring in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, America and Australia, but mostly in the Old World tropics. In some locations, some species are considered weeds. They are commonly called silk plants, silk trees, or sirises. The obsolete spelling of the generic name – with double 'z' – is still common, so the plants may be called albizzias. The generic name honors the Italian nobleman Filippo degli Albizzi, who introduced '' Albizia julibrissin'' to Europe in the mid-18th century. Some species are commonly called mimosa, which more accurately refers to plants of genus '' Mimosa''. Species from southeast Asia used for timber are sometime termed East Indian walnut. Description They are usually small trees or shrubs with a short lifespan, though the famous ''Samán del Guère'' near Maraca ...
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Randia Aculeata
''Randia aculeata'', commonly known as white indigoberry or white indigo berry, is a species in the Rubiaceae. It is a shrub or small tree that grows from 2 to 6 m tall. ''R. aculeata'' is native to Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, elsewhere among the Caribbean islands, and also from Mexico south through Central and South America to Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ....Francis, John K''Randia aculeata'' L.U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Accessed online: 21 December 2007. References External links *''Randia aculeata''at the USDA PLANTS database. aculeata Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Ixoroideae-stub ...
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Randia Monantha
''Randia'' can refer to : * ''Randia'' (bird), a monotypic genus of bird containing a single species, ''Randia pseudozosterops'', also known as Rand's warbler * ''Randia'' (plant), a genus of plants of the family Rubiaceae * r/India, a subreddit on the social site Reddit. See also * Randhia Randhia is a village on Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India. Randhia was formerly a princely state. Villages in Amreli district {{India-hist-stub ...

Casasia Clusiifolia
''Casasia clusiifolia'', also called the sevenyear apple, is a species of plant belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It is common in Florida. References

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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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