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In addition to being near-complete, the Burning Tree Mastodon is remarkable in other ways. Preserved stomach contents indicated a diet of moss, seeds, leaves, water lilies, and swamp grass. Before this discovery, American mastodons were interpreted as having diets consisting principally of twigs and cones from evergreen trees.
Dominickus is an extinct genus of moth in the butterfly-moth family Castniidae containing a single species Dominickus castnioides. [1] The species is known from late Eocene , Priabonian stage , [ 2 ] lake deposits near the small community of Guffey in Teller County, Colorado , United States.
The moth was close to near extinction in the 1980s and 1990s, but monitoring of nineteen sites shows that the moth is responding well to conservation management with more than 900% increase in abundance since 2000. [5] [6] The moth was previousLy found in Wales; near Bala in 1930 and near Dolgellau in 1973.
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.
They were found as rare palynological elements in the sediments of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary from the cored Schandelah-1 well, drilled near Braunschweig in northern Germany. This pushes back the fossil record and origin of glossatan lepidopterans by about 70 million years, supporting molecular estimates of a Norian (c. 212 million years ...
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 .
Sphinx ligustri, the privet hawk moth, is a moth found in most of the Palearctic realm. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . Description
A. radcliffei caterpillar A. radcliffei pupa. Acronicta is a genus of noctuid moths containing about 150 species distributed mainly in the temperate Holarctic, with some in adjacent subtropical regions.