| Telchin syphax | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Castniidae |
| Genus: | Telchin |
| Species: | T. syphax |
| Binomial name | |
| Telchin syphax | |
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Telchin syphax is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is widely distributed in the Amazon basin in South America.
Syphax was a king of the Masaesyli tribe of western Numidia during the last quarter of the 3rd century BC. His story is told in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita. He ruled over a territory extending from present day Constantine to Fez.
Telchin licus, the banana stem borer, is a moth of the Castniidae family. It is native to South America, where it is found from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas, throughout the Amazon basin in Brazil and Peru. It has also been recorded as an introduced species in Hawaii.
Castniomera is a monotypic moth genus in the family Castniidae described by Constant Vincent Houlbert in 1918. Its single species, Castniomera atymnius, commonly known as the giant butterfly-moth, was first described by Johan Wilhelm Dalman in 1824. It is known from Mexico through Central America to Venezuela.
Telchin is a genus of moths within the family Castniidae.
Amauta papilionaris is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama.
Eupalamides guyanensis is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is widely distributed in northern South America, from Venezuela to Guyana, Colombia and Brazil (Pará).
Corybantes mathani is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in South America, including Venezuela, Guyana and Peru.
Feschaeria amycus is a moth in the Castniidae family. It has been recorded from Guyana, Brazil, Venezuela and Tobago.
Castnius pelasgus is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Suriname, Peru and Amazonas.
Castnia fernandezi is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Venezuela.
Castnia invaria is a moth in the family Castniidae. It is found in South America.
Athis fuscorubra is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Trinidad, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela. It is probably also found in the Colombian Amazonas and north-western and northern Brazil.
Athis palatinus is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil.
Athis rutila is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana and Peru.
Eupalamides cyparissias is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is widespread in the Amazon basin including Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, the Guianas, Suriname and north to Panama.
Haemonides cronida is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Duboisvalia simulans is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil.
Syphax Airlines is a charter airline with its head office and main base at Sfax–Thyna International Airport in Sfax, Tunisia. Between 2011 and 2015 the airline operated as a scheduled carrier and served destinations in the Mediterranean.
A stemborer is any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems. However the term most frequently refers among the Coleoptera to the larva of certain longhorn beetles such as Dorysthenes buqueti and those of the genus Oberea, and among the Lepidoptera to certain moths of the Crambidae, Castniidae, Gelechiidae, Nolidae, and Pyralidae families.
The Syphax family is a prominent American family in the Washington, D.C., area. A part of the African-American upper class, the family is descended from Charles Syphax and Mariah Carter Syphax, both born into slavery. She was the daughter of an enslaved woman and planter George Washington Parke Custis, only grandson of First Lady Martha Washington.
