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Classical lepidopteran wing scale colouration in the giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
The palm borer moth Paysandisia archon (Castniidae; giant butterfly-moths) has brown dorsal forewings and strikingly orange-coloured dorsal hindwings with white spots surrounded by black margins.
Doekele G. Stavenga, Hein L. Leertouwer, Andrej Meglič, Kazimir Drašlar, Martin F. Wehling, Primož Pirih, Gregor Belušič   +6 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Giant butterfly moths of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia (Lepidoptera: Castniidae)

SHILAP, 2017
The Institute of Natural Sciences of Colombia’s National University, Bogotá is a repository of objects and organisms that are part of the general and natural history of this megadiverse South American country. During a recent curation of moths deposited
J. M. González, M. Gonzalo Andrade-C., B. Worthy, F. Hernández-Baz   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Giant Butterfly-moths of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with notes on the Herman Strecker collection (Lepidoptera: Castniidae)

SHILAP, 2010
En el año 1908, el Museo Field de Historia Natural de Chicago (FMNH, en sus siglas en inglés) adquirió la colección de Lepidoptera establecida por Herman Strecker (1836-1901) en Reading, Pennsylvania. La colección de Strecker, la cual se cree que llegó a
J. M. González, J. H. Boone, G. M. Brilmyer, D. Le   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Castniidae of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Wrocław: new findings from Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt’s collection with comments on Karl Adolf Georg Lauterbach and August Weberbauer [PDF]

Nota Lepidopterologica, 2021
Further results of our research into the Giant Butterfly-Moths (Castniidae) of the Museum of Natural History (University of Wrocław) are presented. Castniids of the Niepelt collection had previously been reviewed.
Jorge M. González, Paweł J. Domagała
doaj   +3 more sources

First records of Synpalamides phalaris (Fabricius, 1793) (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) in Venezuela, with comments on its natural history [PDF]

Check List, 2017
New records of Synpalamides phalaris (Fabricius, 1793) (Lepidoptera: Castniidae), collected from Venezuela, one of them from the Orinoco Delta, are presented. A brief historical account, brief description, comparison with specimens from
Jorge M. Gonzalez, Bob Worthy
doaj   +3 more sources

The giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon has spectrally rich apposition eyes with unique light-dependent photoreceptor dynamics [PDF]

Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2018
The palm borer moth Paysandisia archon (Burmeister, 1880) (fam. Castniidae) is a large, diurnally active palm pest. Its compound eyes consist of ~ 20,000 ommatidia and have apposition optics with interommatidial angles below 1°. The ommatidia contain nine photoreceptor cells and appear structurally similar to those in nymphalid butterflies.
Primož Pirih, Marko Ilić, Jerneja Rudolf, Kentaro Arikawa, Doekele G. Stavenga, Gregor Belušič   +5 more
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New Records of Giant Butterfly-Moths (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) from Colombia with General Notes on Natural History

Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 2012
Eupalamides cyparissias amazonensis and an intermediate phenotype of two ssp. of Duboisvalia simulans are reported for the first time from Colombia based on the discovery of one specimen each present in two collections of the country. Besides their relevance for increasing
HERNÁNDEZ-BAZ, FERNANDO, SERNA, FRANCISCO, VERGARA NAVARRO, ERIKA V, LAMAS, GERARDO, GONZÁLEZ, JORGE M.   +4 more
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Silene, a versatile model system: from sex and genome evolution to ecology and speciation

New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 6, Page 3613-3630, June 2026.
Summary Fundamental and applied research in evolutionary biology benefits from the use of model systems in which approaches from disparate disciplines can be integrated. Here, we review recent progress in evolutionary research on the long‐standing model system Silene, a large genus with a well‐resolved phylogeny and newly available, expanded genomic ...
Sophie Karrenberg, Václav Bačovský, Andrea E. Berardi, Isabelle De Cauwer, Tatiana Giraud, Fanny E. Hartmann, Roman Hobza, Vojtěch Hudzieczek, Gabriel A.B. Marais, Jenna R. Miladin, Bengt Oxelman, Alexander S.T. Papadopulos, Daniel B. Sloan, Janet C. Steven, Helena Štorchová, Pascal Touzet, Fabienne Van Rossum   +16 more
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Preservative Ethanol From Stomach Contents Is a Reliable Proxy for Diet DNA Metabarcoding

Environmental DNA, Volume 8, Issue 3, May–June 2026.
We tested whether DNA metabarcoding of preservative ethanol can substitute bulk stomach contents for reconstructing diets. Using two ethanol DNA extraction methods (precipitation and drying), the resulting profiles showed minor differences relative to each other and to bulk contents in richness, composition, and read counts, mostly limited to low ...
Daniel A. Velarde‐Garcéz, Patrícia Guedes, Cátia Chaves, Joana Pinto, Tania Bird, Yodiney dos Santos, Marion Tafani, Maria da Conceição Afonso, Marquinha Martins, Ricardo Lima, Pedro Beja, Vanessa A. Mata   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catalysts for change: Museum gardens in a planetary emergency

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 401-410, March 2026.
Natural history museums are often seen as places with indoor galleries full of dry‐dusty specimens, usually of animals. But if they have gardens associated with them, museums can use living plants to create narratives that link outside spaces to inside galleries, bringing to life the challenges facing biodiversity.
Ed Baker, Paul Kenrick, Sandra Knapp, Tom McCarter, John Tweddle   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source