| Acrocercops melantherella | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Acrocercops |
| Species: | A. melantherella |
| Binomial name | |
| Acrocercops melantherella Busck, 1934 | |
Acrocercops melantherella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Cuba. [1]
The larvae feed on Melanthera aspera and Melanthera deltoidea . They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.
Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
Wedelia is a flowering plant genus in the sunflower family. They are one of the genera commonly called "creeping-oxeyes".
Geissorhiza is a genus with 103 species described to date of deciduous perennial flowering plants in the family Iridaceae first described as a genus in 1803. The entire genus is endemic to Cape Province of western South Africa. The genus name is derived from the Greek words geisson, meaning "tile", and rhizon, meaning "root".
Wulffia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family.
Lipochaeta, common name nehe, is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae that is endemic to Hawaii.
Melanthera, squarestem, is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae, native to North and South America, as well as Africa, Asia and Oceania, including Hawaiʻi.
James Clair Parks, Ph.D. (1942–2002) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist who was a professor and herbarium curator at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania, USA from 1967 until his death in 2002. In 2004, the herbarium at Millersville University was dedicated in his honor as the James C. Parks Herbarium.
Melanthera fauriei, known by the common name Olokele Canyon nehe, is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family.
Melanthera kamolensis, known by the common name Maui nehe, is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family.
Melanthera micrantha, known by the common name Kauai nehe, is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family.
Melanthera tenuifolia is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names Waianae Range nehe and slender-leaf nehe.
Melanthera venosa is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name spreading nehe. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Hawaii. It is federally listed as an endangered species of the United States.
Melanthera waimeaensis is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Waimea Canyon nehe. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Kauai. It is federally listed as an endangered species of the United States.
Adaina ambrosiae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America from California east to Florida and north to Ontario. It is also known from Bermuda, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Digitaria ciliaris is a species of grass known by the common names southern crabgrass, tropical finger-grass, tropical crabgrass or summer grass.
Melanthera nivea, also known as pineland squarestem, snow squarestem and Spanish: yerba de cabra, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family. It grows in the Americas.
Geissorhiza melanthera is a small perennial plant of 14–18 cm high that is assigned to the Iridaceae. It survives the dry southern summer through storage of its resources in a corm. The stem carries two or three erect, sticky leaves of up to 18 cm (7 in) long, H-shaped in cross-section. This species blooms with six to twelve bilaterally symmetrical flowers, in a spike. Sometimes the spike has one side branch with fewer flowers. Each flower has six pale beige perianth lobes, a purple-red ring around a purple red tube and three blackish stamens. Each flower is subtended by two 1¼–2¼ cm long green bracts. This species was found flowering from the end of September till mid October. It is an endemic of the western slopes of the Piketberg mountains in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Quadribractea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Quadribractea moluccana, native to the Maluku Islands and New Guinea. It has an affinity with but is probably not a member of the Melanthera alliance.