Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 664 Joined: 08.02.07
19 September 2007, New Brunswick, Canada.
Perhaps our most gaudy local caterpillar. Feeding on Aster leaf in full sun, certainly not cryptic - perhaps warning colouration?
Noctuid Cucullia convexipennis
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Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3346 Joined: 17.10.05
Brown Hooded Owlet, Cucullia convexipennis (Noctuidae, Cuculliinae)
While others can't climb, using infinite pains,
I, gravity turning to jest,
Ascend, with all ease, perpendicular planes,
Rough or smooth, just as pleases me best.
Wondering if anyone has the following resources:
- Revision of the European Empis (s. str.) simulium-group of species (Diptera: Empididae), with descriptions of four new species from the European
Anyone have scans of the Genus Semaranga in:
1)Kanmiya, K. (1983) A systematic study of the Japanese Chloropidae (Diptera).
2) Andersson, H. (1977 Taxonomic and Phylogenetic studies on Chloropid
Dr Michael von Tschirnhaus, a leading expert on Chloropidae and Agromyzidae, died on 16 September 2025 at the age of 86. He will be greatly missed by the international community. R.I.P.
Anyone has the scan of "Harkness, R. D.; Ismay, J. W. 1976: A new species of Trachysiphonella (Dipt., Chloropidae) from Greece, associated with an ant Cataglyphis bicolor (F.) (Hym., Formicidae)
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