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Agathiphaga queenslandensis Dumbleton, 1952 |
Agathiphaga is a genus of insects in the order Lepidoptera. Lionel Jack Dumbleton ( 1905 - 25 September 1976) was a New Zealand Entomologist. This is a list of the Diversity of the Lepidoptera showing the estimated number of genera and species described for each superfamily and where available family In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Insects ( Class Insecta) are a major group of Arthropods and the most diverse group of Animals on the Earth with over a million described Lepidoptera is an order of Insect that includes Moths and butterflies. This caddis fly-like lineage of primitive "Kauri moths" was first reported by Lionel Jack Dumbleton in 1952, as a new genus of Micropterigidae. Caddisflies, sedge-flies or rail flies (Order Trichoptera, from Greek trich, "hair" and ptera, "wings" An evolutionary lineage is a sequence of Species, that form a line of descent each new species the direct result of speciation from an immediate ancestral species Lionel Jack Dumbleton ( 1905 - 25 September 1976) was a New Zealand Entomologist. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Micropterigoidea is the superfamily of "mandibulate archaic moths" all placed in the single family Micropterigidae, containing currently 12 living genera He described two species, one occurring in Queensland, Eastern Australia[1] and the other distributed from Fiji to Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Taxonomy, sometimes alpha taxonomy, is the Science of finding describing and categorising Organisms thus giving rise to taxonomic groups or taxa Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent Fiji (Matanitu ko Viti फ़िजी officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands (Matanitu Tu-Vaka-i-koya ko Viti फ़िजी द्वीप समूह गणराज्य Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu ( French: République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu) is an Island The Solomon Islands is a country in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands The caterpillars feed only on Agathis (Araucariaceae) and are currently considered the second most primitive living lineage of moths after Micropterigoidea (Kristensen, 1999: 41-44). The genus Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammar, is a relatively small Genus of 21 species of Evergreen Trees in the The Araucariaceae are a very ancient family of Conifers They achieved maximum diversity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods when they existed almost Micropterigoidea is the superfamily of "mandibulate archaic moths" all placed in the single family Micropterigidae, containing currently 12 living genera Remarkably, the larva has been reported to be able to survive for 12 years in diapause (Upton, 1997), durability possibly a prerequisite to its possible dispersion around the Pacific islands in the seeds of Agathis. A larva ( Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of Animal with indirect development, undergoing Metamorphosis (for example Diapause is a Physiological state of Dormancy with very specific triggering and releasing conditions The genus Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammar, is a relatively small Genus of 21 species of Evergreen Trees in the
References
- Dumbleton, L. F. (1952). A new genus of seed-infesting micropterygid moths. Pacific Science, 6: 17-29.
- Kristensen, N. P. (1999). The non-Glossatan Moths. Ch. 4, pp. 41-49 in Kristensen, N. P. (Ed. ). Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography. Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology. A Natural History of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom. Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.
- Upton, M. S. (1997). A twelve-year larval diapause in the Queensland kauri moth, Agathiphaga queenslandiae Dumbleton (Lepidoptera: Agathiphagidae). The Entomologist, 116: 142-143.
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