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Fruit-piercing moth (Eudocima materna) seen near guavadilla vine (Passiflora edulis flavicarpa) in Durban, South AfricaEudocima materna, the dot-underwing moth, [1] [2] is a moth of the family Erebidae found in widespread parts of the world, mainly in tropical Asia extending to New Guinea and Australia [3] as well as in Africa.
Polytela gloriosae, the Indian lily moth or lily caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781. [ 1 ] It is found in Sri Lanka , [ 2 ] India and probably in Indonesia .
The following is a list of the moths of ... Vols. 1-5 cxix + 2813 p - 1295 figs - 1 table - 15 pl (12 in col.) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Usually the life cycle of an Indian-meal moth colony starts in a location where grain is present. The temperature within a grain bin must exceed 50 °F (10 °C). The eggs of the moth are grayish white and have a length between 0.3 and 0.5 millimetres (1 ⁄ 64 and 3 ⁄ 128 in). Eggs can be laid directly on the food source singly or in groups ...
Phereoeca allutella, the household case-bearing moth, belongs to the subfamily Tineinae of the fungus moth family (Tineidae). It was first described by Hans Rebel in 1892. It is an occasional pest of furs, flannel and similar materials, and has been inadvertently introduced to many places it is not originally native to.
Clogmia albipunctata adults have broad wings covered with brownish and blackish hairs. There is a tuft of blackish hair near each wing vein fork and a tuft of white hair at the ends of most veins (i.e. each wing has a pair of black spots near the middle and several white spots along the edge).
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 ...
Tussore silk sarees from Phulia, Nadia, India. Tussar silk (alternatively spelled as tussah, tushar, tassar, [1] tussore, tasar, tussur, or tusser, and also known as (Sanskrit) kosa silk) is produced from larvae of several species of silkworms belonging to the moth genus Antheraea, including A. assamensis, A. paphia, A. pernyi, A. roylei, and A. yamamai.