| Madagascan Sunset Moth |
Engraving of 1869 captioned Urania riphaeus | | Scientific classification | | | | Binomial name | Chrysiridia rhipheus
(Hübner, 1823), (Cramer, 1782) (Drury, 1773, originally Papilio rhipheus) Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - spiders,scorpions, etc. ...
Orders Subclass Apterygota Archaeognatha (bristletails) Thysanura (silverfish) Subclass Pterygota Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic) Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Superorder Exopterygota Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dermaptera (earwigs) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (stick insects) Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Psocoptera...
The order Lepidoptera is the second most speciose order in the class Insecta and includes the butterflies, moths and skippers. ...
Diversity over 20,500 species Geometroidea is the superfamily of geometrid moths. ...
Subfamilies Auzeinae Uraniinae (7 genera) Microniinae Epipleminae The Uraniidae are a family of moths containing four subfamilies, ninety genera, and roughly seven-hundred species. ...
Diversity 7 genera Genera Alcides Chrysiridia Cyphura Lyssa Urania Urapteritra Urapteroides The Uraniinae or uraniine moths are a subfamily of the lepidopteran family Uraniidae. ...
Charles Émile Blanchard (March 6, 1819 - February 11, 1900) was a French zoologist. ...
Jacob Hübner (1761 - 1826) was a German entomologist. ...
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Jacob Hübner (1761 - 1826) was a German entomologist. ...
Pieter Cramer (May 21, 1721 - September 26, 1776 or 1779) was a wealthy Dutch wool merchant and entomologist. ...
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| | Synonyms | | Urania rhipheus
Urania ripheus
Urania rhiphaeus[1]
Chrysiridia riphearia
Chrysiridia rhiphaeus[2]
Chrysiridia madagascariensis[1] (Less., 1831)
Chrysiridia ripheus
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René Lesson. ...
| The Madagascan Sunset Moth, or simply Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus, also known as Urania rhipheus, U. rhiphaeus,[1] C. rhiphaeus,[2] and C. madagascariensis[1]) is a moth of the Uraniidae family. A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly. ...
Subfamilies Auzeinae Uraniinae (7 genera) Microniinae Epipleminae The Uraniidae are a family of moths containing four subfamilies, ninety genera, and roughly seven-hundred species. ...
Native Malagasy people call it Adriandolo or Lolonandriana, meaning noble butterfly,[1] or noble spirit.[3] The Malagasy (in French also les Malgaches) ethnic group forms the vast majority of the population of Madagascar. ...
Description
Chrysiridia rhipheus (Drury, 1773) has a wingspan of 7.5 to 9 cm (3 to 3 1/2 inches).[4] It is black with iridescent red, blue and green markings. The iridescent parts of the wings do not have pigment; the color originates from refraction of light by the ribbon-like scales covering the moth’s wings. This characteristic makes this species and its neotropical relative Urania common subjects of optical sciences. [5] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The straw seems to be broken, due to refraction of light as it emerges into the air. ...
In this SEM image of a butterfly wing the scales are clearly visible, and the tiny platelets on each individual scale are just barely visible in the striping. ...
Neotropical or Neotropic relates to a biogeographical region in the New World, bordered in the north by the dry areas in Mexico and the southern states of the USA. in the south by southern Patagonia. ...
This moth is often considered as one of the most impressive and beautiful Lepidoptera. It was known by Victorians who used its wings to make jewellery.[6][7] The order Lepidoptera is the second most speciose order in the class Insecta and includes the butterflies, moths and skippers. ...
Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ...
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Habits The Sunset Moth is day flying while most moths are active at night. It is also toxic, a common defense found in several diurnal moths. A diurnal animal (dÄ«-ÅrnÉ™l) is an animal that is active during the daytime and sleeps during the night. ...
A bat illustrating nocturnal features. ...
Toxic redirects here, but this is also the name of a song by Britney Spears; see Toxic (song) Look up toxic and toxicity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Range Chrysiridia rhipheus is endemic to Madagascar, ranging from the eastern forest in places where Omphalea oppositifolia [8] occurs whence it migrates occasionally across the high plateaux establishing seasonal populations in the western limestone karst. [9] Its sister species C. croesus occurs in Eastern Tanzania In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced. ...
Life cycle
Caterpillar Its caterpillar is whitish-yellow with black spots and red feet and is covered in club-ended black setae. This article is about a form of an insect. ...
A seta is a stiff hair, bristle, or bristle-like process or part of an organism. ...
Pupa The caterpillar pupates in an open network cocoon on the ground .[7][10] Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) pupa Chrysalis redirects here: for other meanings see Chrysalis (disambiguation). ...
Host plants The larva feeds exclusively on species of Omphalea Euphorbiaceae containing alkaloids potentially sequestered or excreted by the caterpillar, the pupa and the moth. [11] Species Omphalea bracteata Omphalea brasiliensis Omphalea celata Omphalea diandra - Jamaica navelspurge Omphalea grandifolia Omphalea hypoleuca Omphalea malayana Omphalea megacarpa Omphalea oleifera Omphalea queenslandiae Omphalea sargentii Omphalea triandra - Jamaican cobnut, pop nut Omphalea tricocca et al. ...
Genera See text Ref: Euphorbiaceae in The Families of Flowering Plants, as of 2002-07-13 The Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) is a large family of flowering plants with 280 genera and around 6000 species. ...
Gallery
Underside of Madagascan Sunset Moth Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (3888 × 2592 pixel, file size: 4. ...
Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (3888 × 2592 pixel, file size: 4. ...
Notes and references - ^ a b c d e (French) Decary, Raymond (1950). La Faune Malgache. Payot Paris.
- ^ a b "Import Health Standard for the Importation of Tropical Butterfly and Moth Pupae into New Zealand" in "Biosecurity New Zealand". Retrieved November 8, 2006.
- ^ Dispatches from the Vanishing World Our Far Flung Correspondents (Madagascar), Page 2. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
- ^ The Sunset Moth (Urania riphaeus) on ButterflyUtopia.com. Retrieved December 23, 2006.
- ^ Prum,R.O. Quinn T. and Torres, R.H. 2006. Anatomically diverse butterfly scales all produce structural colours by coherent scattering. The Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 748-765 doi:10.1242/jeb.02051 [available at http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/209/4/748.pdf]
- ^ Urania ripheus page in "Newman Art Desings". Retrieved October 24, 2006.
- ^ a b Carter, David (2000). Butterflies and Moths (Eyewitness Handbook). Dorling Kindersley Publishing. ISBN 1-56458-062-8.
- ^ http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Madagasc/euphorb/nme05458.html
- ^ Lees, David and Neal Smith (1991) "Foodplants of the Uraniinae (Uraniinae) and their Systematic, Evolutionary and Ecological Significance" or an OCR of the pdf document. In Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, vol. 45. Retrieved October 29, 2006.
- ^ (French) Chrysiridia rhipheus page in "Insectarium de Montréal". Retrieved October 29, 2006.
- ^ Kite, G.C., Fellows, L.E., Lees, D.C., Kitchen, D. & Monteith, G.B. 1991. "Alkaloidal glycosidase inhibitors in nocturnal and diurnal uraniine moths and their respective foodplant genera, Endospermum and Omphalea. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 19 (6): 441-445."
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Chrysiridia rhipheus - Nature's Iridescence, An Electron Microscopic Study Contains pictures of the Sunset Moth’s green iridescent scales.
- God of Insects Sunset Moth picture, (underside in top of the picture top view in the bottom)
- WildMadagascar.org Two photos of a wild Sunset Moth.
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