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Cynocephalus – A dog -headed creature. Daksha – His head was replaced by a goat 's head after a beheading. Ganesha – An elephant -headed God. Hayagriva – A horse -headed avatar. Tumburu - A horse faced Hindu deity. Horse-Face – A horse -headed guardian or type of guardian of the Underworld in Chinese mythology.
Phigalia olivacearia mephistarua Reiff, 1913. Phigalia revocata Walker, [1863] Apocheima titea (Cramer, 1780) Phigalia titea, the spiny looper or half-wing moth, is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. [1] [2] The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1780 (some sources give 1782). [3] The average wingspan is about 34 mm.
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 that includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families and 46 superfamilies, and one of ...
Futakuchi-onna (ふたくちおんな, "two-mouthed woman") is a type of yōkai or Japanese monster. She is characterized by her two mouths – a normal one located on her face and a second one on the back of the head beneath the hair. There, the woman's skull splits apart, forming lips, teeth and a tongue, creating an entirely functional ...
Microlepidoptera ( micromoths) is an artificial (i.e., unranked and not monophyletic) grouping of moth families, commonly known as the "smaller moths" ( micro, Lepidoptera ). These generally have wingspans of under 20 mm, so are harder to identify by external phenotypic markings than macrolepidoptera. They present some lifestyles that the ...
The word insect comes from the Latin word insectum from in, "cut up", as insects appear to be cut into three parts. The Latin word was introduced by Pliny the Elder who calqued the Ancient Greek word ἔντομον éntomon "insect" (as in entomology ) from ἔντομος éntomos "cut in pieces"; [2] this was Aristotle 's term for this class ...
The modern English word moth comes from Old English moððe (cf. Northumbrian mohðe) from Common Germanic (compare Old Norse motti, Dutch mot, and German Motte all meaning 'moth'). Its origins are possibly related to the Old English maða meaning ' maggot ' or from the root of midge which until the 16th century was used mostly to indicate the ...
Graellsia isabellae, the Spanish moon moth, is in the silkmoth family Saturniidae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Graellsia . The species was first described by Mariano de la Paz Graells y de la Agüera in 1849 and the genus was erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1896.