The six-spot burnet is a day-flying moth of the family Zygaenidae.
Lycaena phlaeas, the small copper, American copper, or common copper, is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family. According to Guppy and Shepard (2001), its specific name phlaeas is said to be derived either from the Greek φλέγω (phlégo), "to burn up", or from the Latin floreo, "to flourish".
Henry John Elwes, FRS was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalaya and Korea. He was one of the first group of 60 people to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897. Author of Monograph of the Genus Lilium (1880), and The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland (1906–1913) with Augustine Henry, as well as numerous articles, he left a collection of 30,000 butterfly specimens to the Natural History Museum, including 11,370 specimens of Palaearctic butterflies.
Iambrix salsala, the chestnut bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae, that is found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Cyana is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
Cigaritis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Afrotropical realm, the Indomalayan realm and adjacent regions of Asia.
Himantopterus is a genus of moths in the family Himantopteridae. It was described by Constantin Wesmael in 1836.
Phragmataecia castaneae, the reed leopard or giant borer, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1790. It is found in central and southern Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, north-western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, India, Lebanon, Turkey, western China, south-western Siberia, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
Lophocampa argentata, the silver-spotted tiger moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Packard in 1864. It is found from British Columbia to southern California, and east to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and possibly to northern Mexico.
Bryophila is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was described by Treitschke in 1825.
Quedara is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The genus was erected by Charles Swinhoe in 1919.
Tapena is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae subfamily Pyrginae.
Nossa is a genus of moths in the family Epicopeiidae. The genus was described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892.
Ovipennis dudgeoni is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Henry John Elwes in 1890. It is found in Sikkim, India.
Cyana unipunctata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Henry John Elwes in 1890. It is found in Japan.
Himantopterus dohertyi is a moth in the family Himantopteridae. It was described by Henry John Elwes in 1890. It is found in India.
Campylotes is a genus of day-flying moths of the family Zygaenidae. The genus was erected by John O. Westwood in 1840.
