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The preserved moth specimen, identified as Pachyrhabda citrinacma, found in the collection of National Taiwan University. Photos from Shen, Su and Hsu (2024) Discover more new species.
Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal's body by mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study.
A wet specimen is a specimen preserved in fluid, often 70% alcohol. Specimens that would receive this preservation technique are usually soft-bodied, such as caterpillars, larva, and spiders because of their soft abdomens. This is done to minimize shriveling allowing the identifying characteristics to be preserved as true to life as possible.
Beetle collection at the Melbourne Museum, Australia. Insect collecting refers to the collection of insects and other arthropods for scientific study or as a hobby. [1] Most insects are small and the majority cannot be identified without the examination of minute morphological characters, so entomologists often make and maintain insect collections.
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Apeira syringaria, the lilac beauty, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe and east across the Palearctic to the Russian Far East and Japan. The wingspan is 38–42 mm. The length of the forewings is 19–22 mm. The front wings are coloured violet-grey to bright reddish brown and yellowish in the marginal field.
Coscinocera hercules, the Hercules moth, [1] is a moth of the family Saturniidae, endemic to New Guinea and northern Australia. The species was first described by William Henry Miskin in 1876. Description
Epiborkhausenites is an extinct genus of moth in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae [1] and containing a single species Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus. [2] The species is known only from Middle Eocene , Bartonian stage , [ 3 ] Baltic amber deposits near the town of Palanga in Lithuania .