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Mythimna l-album, the L-album wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae.It is distributed throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia and in the Levant, then east across the Palearctic to Central Asia.
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...
Mimallonidae (mimallonids), sometimes known as "sack-bearer" moths for the larval case-building behavior, are a family of Lepidoptera containing over 300 named species in 43 genera. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These moths are found only in the New World , with most taxa occurring in the Neotropics . [ 4 ]
The insect order Lepidoptera consists of moths and butterflies (43 superfamilies). [1] Most moths are night-flying, while the butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea ) are the mainly day-flying. Within Lepidoptera as a whole, the groups listed below before Glossata contain a few basal families accounting for less than 200 species; the bulk of ...
Mythimna is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. ... Mythimna l-album Linnaeus, ... Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera.There are twelve genera recognised (Davis, 1999). Many species are leaf miners [2] and much is known of their host plants, excluding Paraclemensia acerifoliella. [3]
Basic moth identification features. 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 ...
Acrolophinae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera. [1] [2] The subfamily comprises the burrowing webworm moths and tube moths and holds about 300 species in five genera, which occur in the wild only in the New World. [3] It is closely related to the family Tineidae. [4]