A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes.
One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects.
The name given by Gray was pre-occupied by a genus of Lepidopterous Insects.
We do not regret the discovery made by Mr. Swainson of that name being previously occupied for a genus of Lepidopterous Insects.
Some very beautiful protective resemblances are shown among the caterpillars figured in Smith and Abbott's Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, a work published in the early part of the century, before any theories of protection were started.
This species is beautifully figured in Abbott and Smith's Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia.
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars.
I only make this assumption for the sake of simplicity, and not because I am convinced that the existing Rhopalocera are actually the oldest Lepidopterous group.
The greatest difference in the mode of life which occurs amongst Lepidopterous larvæ is shown by wood feeders.
Figured in “A Catalogue ofLepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the East India Company,” by Thomas Horsfield and Frederick Moore.
The former shows a great resemblance to Lepidopterous larvæ, and in the absence of all knowledge of the further development it might be attempted to unite them with these into one group.
The paper is here introduced chiefly with a view to illustrate an important case of incongruence among Lepidopterous pupæ.
Cases of the second kind are found among the Lepidopterous families, and especially in the higher groups (Rhopalocera and Heterocera), and appear still more striking in the higher groups of the Hymenoptera and Diptera.
See his paper “On the Natural Affinities of the Lepidopterous Family Ægeriidæ,” Trans.
Complete absence of marking, so common in the larvæ of other insects, such as the Coleoptera, is but seldom found among Lepidopterous caterpillars.
Porcellus indeed was referred to the genus Pergesa because of its different contour of wings, an instance which distinctly shows how dangerous it is to attempt to found Lepidopterous genera without considering the caterpillars.
It is thus contended that the neuration of a Lepidopterous insect probably reveals more plainly than any other character its true relationship with other species.
The male pupa is rather attenuated, and has all the organs of the future moth plainly indicated on the integument, as is usual with lepidopterous pupae.
For example: The average number of eggs laid by a Lepidopterous insect is certainly over 100, and in many species this number is greatly exceeded.
Assumed type of neuration of fore-wing of a Lepidopterous insect.
View of the under side of the head and first segment of the larva of a Lepidopterous insect.
The pupa of a Lepidopterous insect is completely encased in a chitinous envelope.
Outline of a Lepidopterousinsect showing the terms employed in describing the various margins and angles of the fore- and hind-wings.
Trichoptera), not having their wings covered by the scales which adorn the lepidopterous race.
In the Crimea the small caterpillar of a Procris or Ino (lepidopterous genera separated from Sphinx, L.
A third description of larvae, chiefly of the two lepidopterous tribes Tortricidae and Tineidae, form into convenient habitations the leaves of the plants on which they feed.
This is certainly true of most lepidopterous larvae, several of which as well as many Coleoptera (Haltica oleracea, &c.
Among other notable Lepidopterous pests are the "surface larvae" or cutworms (Agrotis spp.
Lepidopterous enemies are numerous all over the world.
Wherever you can, procure a specimen of each sex of an insect, and where important characters require it, let some of your Lepidopterous specimens exhibit the under side of the wings.
Calosoma, which devoursLepidopterous larvae, though poor in species and individuals, is widely scattered.
Lewin (William) Prodromus Entomology, or natural history of Lepidopterous insects of New South Wales.
You will often meet Lepidopterous larvae travelling over roads and pathways: at such times they have usually done feeding, and are seeking a spot in which they may assume the pupa with safety.
When one or two definite spaces in a Lepidopterous wing are denuded of scales.
Thus, if the lepidopterous insect sees a continuous picture of its surroundings, such a picture is produced by the overlapping and blending, at their edges, of hundreds or thousands of distinct parts.
It possesses two eyes, three anterior pairs of legs, and one at the posterior end of the body, giving it a curious resemblance to some Lepidopterous larvae.
Mr Boden has also recorded how he found in a seed-warehouse some peas that were being eaten by two species of Lepidopterous larvæ.
These fleas, being confined without other food, were observed to prey on the Lepidopterous larvæ and to feed freely on their juices.
The Natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, collected from the observations of John Abbot, with the plants on which they feed.
The young are fed at first on various larvae, especially those of a lepidopterous character.
Their food at first consists of larvae of various kinds, but chiefly those of a lepidopterous character, and small diptera.
A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops.
The fully-fed larva winters in an underground cocoon and then changes into the most remarkable of all known lepidopterous pupae, with relatively enormous toothed mandibles which bite a way out of the cocoon in preparation for the final change.
He leaves us, however, to imagine under what possible geographical conditions the climate in Europe could be too severe for a lepidopterous fauna, while at the same time Central Asia could maintain an abundant one.
In some lepidopterous larvae the head is of the same diameter with the rest of the body, but in insects in general it may, I think, be stated as less; and occasionally it bears no proportion whatever to it.
Prolegs only (many Tipulidae, and some subcutaneous Lepidopterous larvae, &c.
Lepidopterous pupae, however, are not excluded from the last skin of the larvae with this hard covering.
Where ten prolegs are present, as is the case in by far the greatest proportion of Lepidopterous larvae, there is constantly an anal pair, and a pair on each of the four intermediate segments just mentioned.
Those of Lepidopterous larvae are commonly conical, as are those likewise of Chrysomela and Coccinella &c.
In fact, in almost all Lepidopterous larvae the head may be regarded as divided into two lobes or eye-shaped portions, which include in the angle formed by their recession anteriorly from each other, the nasus (clypeus F.
In some lepidopterous larvae, however, as in that of Pieris Brassicae, though no visible neck presents itself, one is very perceptible when the insect stretches the head forward considerably.
The majority of coleopterous and hymenopterous pupae are white, or whitish; of lepidopterous and dipterous, brown of various shades, often verging on black in the former and on red in the latter.
Roesel has, I think, figured a Lepidopterous apode.
Move on,--you lepidopterous son of a wigglejoint, or I'll pull your real name on you in a minute and paralyze you stiff!
I spent a lot on that old 1797 Abbot & Smith's 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia.
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