A New Cryptic Lactura from Texas (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Lacturidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2017 A new species of Lactura is described from Texas: Lactura rubritegula sp. n. Identity of the new species can be reliably determined by both larval and adult characters, CO1 haplotypes, and its late-spring period of flight activity.
Tanner Matson, David L. Wagner
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A Revision of North American Lactura (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Lacturidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 The Lactura Walker, 1854 fauna north of Mexico is revised. Six species are documented, one new species Lactura nalli Matson & Wagner, sp. n. is described, and two new synonymies are proposed: Lactura psammitis (Zeller, 1872), syn. n.
Tanner A. Matson +2 more
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Three species of Limacodidae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea), new to Korea
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2018 Three species of Limacodidae, Ceratonema butleri Kawada, 1930, Microleon decolatus Sasaki, 2016, and Isopenthocrates japona Yoshimoto, 2004, are recorded for the first time from Korea.
Jae-Cheon Sohn +2 more
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EDIS, 2015 This EDIS publication is an alternate version of a page published first on the Featured Creatures website. The Featured Creatures collection provides in-depth profiles of insects, nematodes, arachnids and other organisms relevant to Florida.
Donald W. Hall
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Evolution and losses of spines in slug caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Larvae of the cosmopolitan family Limacodidae, commonly known as “slug” caterpillars, are well known because of the widespread occurrence of spines with urticating properties, a morpho‐chemical adaptive trait that has been demonstrated to protect the ...
Yu‐Chi Lin +3 more
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The anti-bat strategy of ultrasound absorption: the wings of nocturnal moths (Bombycoidea: Saturniidae) absorb more ultrasound than the wings of diurnal moths (Chalcosiinae: Zygaenoidea: Zygaenidae) [PDF]
Biology Open, 2017 The selection pressure from echolocating bats has driven the development of a diverse range of anti-bat strategies in insects. For instance, several studies have proposed that the wings of some moths absorb a large portion of the sound energy contained ...
Athanasios Ntelezos +2 more
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Figure 12 in The phylogenetic relationships of Chalcosiinae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Zygaenidae) [PDF]
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2005 Figure 12. Stylized drawings of selected characters of adult head. See Appendixes 2 and 3 for character descriptions and their distributions. A–E, frontal view. F–I, dorsal view. J–M, lateral view. N–P, labial palpus. Q–V, dorsal view of chaetosemata.
Quicke, Donald L. J. +2 more
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An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera (Insecta) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part I. superfamilies Hepialoidea, Cossoidea, and Zygaenoidea [PDF]
Evolutionary Systematics, 2021 Zoological collections remain the main archive of animal biodiversity on Earth, and especially in times of large-scale declines of many groups represent important resources for biodiversity and conservation research.
Reza Zahiri +9 more
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Five new species of Limacodidae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea) from South-East Asia
Zootaxa, 2021 Solovyev, Alexey V., Saldaitis, Aidas (2021): Five new species of Limacodidae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea) from South-East Asia. Zootaxa 4999 (2): 101-116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.2.
Saldaitis, Aidas, Solovyev, Alexey V.
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On recently described Procridinae taxa from the Volga Region (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)
SHILAP, 2022 The systematic position of the recently described taxa: Jordanita (Roccia) scintillosa Zolotuhin, 2020, J. (R.) smaragdonna Zolotuhin, 2020, and Adscita (Adscita) albanica accola Zolotuhin & Nedoshivina, 2020, are discussed. J.
Konstantin A. Efetov, Gerhard M. Tarmann
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