Appias lalage, the spot puffin, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, Indochina and Hainan.
Mesapamea secalis, the common rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Europe, north-west Africa, Turkey and northern Iran.
Grammodes stolida, the geometrician, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in Africa, southern Europe, most of Asia and Australia. It migrates to central and northern Europe as far north as England, Denmark and Finland.
Acrapex hamulifera is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by George Hampson in 1893. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Hellinsia tinctus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Arizona and Mexico.
Mnesarchella loxoscia is a species of primitive moth in the family Mnesarchaeidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. and is found in the Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Taupo, Gisborne, Rangitikei, Wellington and the Marlborough Sounds regions. Adults of this species are normally on the wing from December and January but can be on the wing as early as October.
Helcystogramma juventellus is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1897. It is found in Jamaica and Mexico (Tabasco).
Chionodes concinna is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).
Chionodes cacoderma is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).
Recurvaria thysanota is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).
Filatima perpensa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.
Battaristis symphora is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco).
Idiophantis chiridota is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Sri Lanka, Thailand, on the Sunda Islands and Fiji.
Ornativalva heligmatodes is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1904. It is found in Algeria and Tunisia.
Falculina lepidota is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.
Antaeotricha bicolor is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil.
Ptilothyris purpurea is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Walsingham in 1897. It is found in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.
Antaeotricha praerupta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana.
Stenoma lavata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1913. It is found in Tabasco, Mexico.
Tanycnema is a monotypic moth genus of the family Tineodidae or false plume moths. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1922. Turner described the genus in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, writing:
Gen. Tanycnema, nov.
Frons with a strong anterior tuft of hairs. Tongue present. Palpi rather long, porrect. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae short. Legs long, slender; outer tibial spurs about 3/4 length of inner spurs. Forewings narrow, elongate; 2 from well before angle, 3 from angle, 4 and 5 somewhat approximate at origin, 6 from upper angle, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 arising slightly before 10, 11 free. Hindwings twice as broad as forewings; 2 from 3/4, 3 from angle, 4 and 5 somewhat approximate at origin, 6 well separated at origin from 5, still more widely from 7, 7 from upper angle, closely approximated to 12 for some distance, but not anastomosing.
A peculiar, isolated, and primitive genus. The wide separation of 6 from 7 of the hindwings, and the absence of any anastomosis of 7 with 12 are primitive characters; on the other hand the relative approximation of 5 to 4 in the hindwings, and the stalking of 7 and 10 of the forewings are specialised characters, the former being unique in this family, to which the genus must, I think, be referred, though the absence of maxillary palpi, suggests some relationship to the Pterophoridae, but this may be more apparent than real.
