Compsopsectra

Last updated

Compsopsectra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Suborder:
Infraorder:
Division:
Superfamily:
Family:
Genus:
Compsopsectra

West, 1932 [1]

Compsopsectra is a genus of moths in the family Limacodidae.

Contents

Species

See also

Related Research Articles

Stanley Holloway English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist

Stanley Augustus Holloway was an English stage and film actor, humourist, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career.

Sterling Holloway American actor

Sterling Price Holloway Jr. was an American actor, who appeared in over 100 films and 40 television shows. He did voice acting for The Walt Disney Company, including providing original voice-work for Mr. Stork in Dumbo, Kaa in The Jungle Book and the title character in Winnie the Pooh.

Cossoidea Superfamily of moths

Cossoidea is the superfamily of moths that includes carpenter moths and relatives. Like their likely sister group Sesioidea they are internal feeders and have spiny pupae with moveable segments to allow them to extrude out of their exit holes in stems and trunks during emergence of the adult.

Ratardinae

The Ratardinae are a small subfamily of large moths from Southeast Asia.

Herbert Druce, FLS was an English entomologist. His collections were acquired by Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), Osbert Salvin (1835–1898), and James John Joicey (1870–1932) before being bequeathed to the Natural History Museum, London. He is not to be confused with his son, the English entomologist Hamilton Herbert Druce, who also worked on Lepidoptera.

<i>Parasa</i> Genus of moths

Parasa is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1860.

<i>Gyrtona</i> Genus of moths

Gyrtona is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863.

<i>Aquita</i> Genus of moths

Aquita is a genus of moths in the family Nolidae.

<i>Tetragonus catamitus</i>

Tetragonus catamitus, the common butterfly moth, or Philippine callidulid moth, is a moth of the family Callidulidae. It was first described by Carl Geyer in 1832. Noted from Taiwan, north-eastern India, south-west India, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, the Tenasserim Hills of Myanmar and from Java. They are day-flying moths that can be easily mistaken for a butterfly due to the position in which they hold their wings.

Louis Beethoven Prout (1864–1943) was an English entomologist and musicologist.

Pseudonagoda is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae.

Atosioides is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae.

Pseudidonauton bhaga is a species of moth of the family Limacodidae. It is found on Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

<i>Flavinarosa</i> Genus of moths

Flavinarosa is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae.

<i>Narosa</i> Genus of moths

Narosa is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae described by Francis Walker in 1855.

<i>Demonarosa</i> Genus of moths

Demonarosa is a genus of moths in the family Limacodidae from Asia.

<i>Mahanta</i> (moth) Genus of moths

Mahanta is a genus of moths in the family Limacodidae.

<i>Eupterote</i> Genus of moths

Eupterote is a genus of moths in the family Eupterotidae. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820.

Compsopsectra elegans is a species of moth in the family Limacodidae. It is the type species of its genus. The type specimen was from the Philippines islands.

References

  1. Further descriptions of new species of Japanese, Formosan and Philippine Heterocera. RJ West, Novitates Zoologicae 37, 207-228, 1932.