Thysanoplusia exquisita | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Thysanoplusia |
Species: | T. exquisita |
Binomial name | |
Thysanoplusia exquisita (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) | |
Synonyms | |
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Thysanoplusia exquisita is a moth of the family Noctuidae. it is found in southern Africa, from Angola to Madagascar and South Africa, as well as in Oman, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. [1]
Known hostplants of the larvae of this species are Asteraceae ( Senecio bupleuroides and Euryops spathaceus )
Plusiinae is a smallish subfamily of the moth family Noctuidae. As the Noctuidae appear to be a paraphyletic assemblage, the Plusiinae may eventually be raised to family status.
Plectrohyla exquisita is a species of frogs in the family Hylidae. Before its description in 1998, it was confused with Plectrohyla teuchestes. It is endemic to the Sierra de Omoa in the Cortés Department of northwestern Honduras. The species range is within the Cusuco National Park.
The exquisite rainbowfish is a species of fish in the family Melanotaeniidae endemic to Australia. It occurs in freshwater habitats of the Northern Territory, typically in running water. It grows to 7.5 cm (3.0 in) standard length.
Iridana is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are endemic to the Afrotropical realm.
Hydatina is a genus of sea snails, bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aplustridae.
Thysanoplusia orichalcea, the slender burnished brass, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is a polyphagous pest of vegetable crops that originated in Indonesia, from where it spread to Europe, South Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In northern Europe it is a migrant species.
Thysanoplusia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae described by Taira Ichinosé in 1973.
Marriottella is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Thysanoplusia daubei is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North and East Africa, Southern Europe, Arabia, Turkey, Southern Iran to the Himalayas, India, Indochina, China, Japan and Taiwan.
Julia exquisita is a small species of sea snail with a green bivalve shell. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Juliidae.
Puncturella exquisita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.
Austroharpa exquisita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Harpidae, the harp snails.
Pseudocypraea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ovulidae, one of the families of cowry allies.
Iridana exquisita, the exquisite sapphire gem, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Ghana, western Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon. The habitat consists of forests.
Thysanoplusia sestertia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. it is found in Africa, where it is known from Gabon, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, as well as from Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
The Natal dartfish is a species of dartfish which was described in 2013 from specimens collected in the Red Sea, off Mauritius and Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Formerly, the elegant firefish was thought to be found in the western Indian Ocean but N. exquisita was found to be larger, with a more slender body and longer snout, as well as the having a shorter first spine on the first dorsal fin. They also differ in colour with this species being yellow in the anterior part of the body and this colour extends further towards the tail than the analogous coloured area on N. decora. A hybrid N. decora x esquisita is thought to have been photographed in the Maldives in 1988, while the IUCN states that further taxonomic research is required to ascertain the validity of N. exquisita.
Marriottella exquisita is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Marriottella of the family Tephritidae.