Description
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Family Drepanidae
'The Drepanidae belong to the Superfamily
Drepanoidea. There are only four species of this family
found in North America. All are medium-sized, broad-winged moths with short bodies. The proboscis is reduced in size or absent. Larvae pupate in cocoons
on the ground
, sheltered by fallen leaves. Larvae lack rear
legs
.
'[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 656 meters (0 to 2,152 feet).[2]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Class:
Insecta
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Insects
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Ray-Finned Fishes
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
()
- Order:
Lepidoptera
()
- Butterflies and Moths
- Suborder:
Percoidei
()
- Family:
Drepanidae
()
-
- Hook-tip Moths
- Genus:
Achyla
()
- Specific name:
flavicornis
- L.
- Scientific name: - Achyla flavicornis
- Specific name:
flavicornis
- L.
- Genus:
Achyla
(
- Family:
Drepanidae
(
- Suborder:
Percoidei
(
- Order:
Lepidoptera
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Insecta
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Achyla
There are approximately 7 species in this genus:
A. ambisexualis · A. americana · A. bisexualis · A. conspicua · A. flagellata · A. flavicornis · A. klebsiana
More Info
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- Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
- Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
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- Hoffman, Richard Lawrence (1999): Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America - Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication 8, pp. 1-584
Notes
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Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 27, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 27, 2007:
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
- SysTax, Lobbecke Museum Dusseldorf
- SysTax, SysTax
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Bugs
Identifiers
Footnotes
- http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=28&sci=Drepanidae&com=Hooktip Moths [back]
- Mean = 183.350 meters (601.542 feet), Standard Deviation = 172.430 based on 255 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
