| Inopsis scylla | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Inopsis |
| Species: | I. scylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Inopsis scylla (H. Druce, 1885) | |
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Inopsis scylla is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1885. It is found in Panama. [1]
Charybdis is a sea monster in Greek mythology. Subsequent scholarship has suggested that it was based on a whirlpool in the Strait of Messina.
In Greek mythology, Scylla is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa.
Mud crab may refer to any crab that lives in or near mud, such as:
HMS Scylla (F71) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was built at Devonport Royal Dockyard, the last RN frigate to be built there as of 2016. Scylla was commissioned in 1970, taken out of service in 1993 in accordance with Options for Change, and sunk as an artificial reef in 2004.
Scylla paramamosain is a mud crab commonly consumed in Southeast Asia.
Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.
Scilla is a town and comune in Calabria, Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. It is the traditional site of the sea monster Scylla of Greek mythology.
Inopsis is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was described by Felder in 1874.
Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". Several other idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings. The mythical situation also developed a proverbial use in which seeking to choose between equally dangerous extremes is seen as leading inevitably to disaster.
Catephia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. Most species of this genus are found in Africa.
HMS Scylla was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. The first to bear the name Scylla, she was launched in 1809 and broken up in 1846.
Catephia scylla is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by James Farish Malcolm Fawcett in 1916. It is found in Kenya.
Inopsis catoxantha is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Felder in 1874. It is found in Mexico.
Inopsis modulata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1884. It is found in Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico.
Inopsis metella is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1885. It is found in Guatemala.
Inopsis funerea is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1883. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona and South Carolina.
The Lithosiina are a subtribe of lichen moths in the family Erebidae. The taxon was erected by Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820.
Antaeotricha modulata is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil, Guyana and French Guiana.
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