Meaning of "arctiid" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF ARCTIID

arctiid  [ˈɑːktɪɪd]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARCTIID

Arctiid is a noun.

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WHAT DOES ARCTIID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Arctiidae

The Arctiidae are a large and diverse family of moths, with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This group includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths, which usually have bright colours, footmen, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have 'hairy' caterpillars which are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms. The scientific name refers to this. Caterpillars may also go by the name 'tussock moths'. While they were historically treated as a separate family, most recent classifications place them as a subfamily within the family Erebidae.

Definition of arctiid in the English dictionary

The definition of arctiid in the dictionary is any moth of the family Arctiidae, which includes the footman, ermine, and tiger moths.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARCTIID»

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Tiger Moths and Woolly Bears : Behavior, Ecology, and ...

Gunnar. Brehm. 15. Patterns. of. Arctiid. Diversity. Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? —Charles Darwin, The Origin ofSpecies ...

William E. Conner Professor of Biology Wake Forest University, 2008

Female Pheromonal Chorusing and Aggregation in an Arctiid ...

I report a unique finding of communal sexual display and aggregation mediated by female sex advertisement pheromone in Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae).

Hangkyo Lim, 2006

Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology

Dihydropyrrolizidine attractants for arctiid moths that visit plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Journal of Chemical Ecology l5: 47-60. Krasnoff. S. B. and Roelofs. W. L. tt989). Quantitative and qualitative effects of larval diet on male scent ...

Ring T. Cardé, Jocelyn G. Millar, 2004

Arctiidae: List of Arctiid Genera

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Source: Wikipedia, 2012

Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins

Tymbal organs of arctiid moths. A: External anatomy of a tymbal organ with microtymbals. B: Tymbal muscles. C: Direction of successive buckling of mi- crotymbals. D: Examples of time series and spectrograms of arctiid clicks (Phrag- matobia ...

Jeanette A. Thomas, Cynthia F. Moss, Marianne Vater, 2004

For Love of Insects

quality in an arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix): hydroxydanaidal is the only criterion of choice. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49: 283-288. lyengar, V. K., C. Rossini, E. R. Hoebeke, W. E. Conner, and T. Eisner. 1999. First record of the ...

Thomas Eisner, 2005

100 Butterflies and Moths: Portraits from the Tropical ...

We immediately thought the voucher numbers were mixed up, and that someone had put an arctiid caterpillar into a bag that was supposed to have a new species of pyrrhopygine skipper in it. It was colored like a brilliant red, black, and white ...

Jeff C. Miller, Daniel H. Janzen, Winifred Hallwachs, 2007

Chemoecology of Insect Eggs and Egg Deposition

Female choice increases offspring fitness in an arctiid moth (lltetheisa ornatrix). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 15013-15016. Iyengar, VK, Rossini, C, Eisner, T. 2001. Precopulatory assessment of male quality in an arctiid moth (lltetheisa ...

Monika Hilker, Torsten Meiners, 2008

Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory

Planta 207:483–495 Hartmann T, Biller A, Witte L, Ernst L, Boppre M (1990) Transformation of plant pyrrolizidine alkaloids into novel insect alkaloids by arctiid moths (Lepidoptera). Biochem Syst Ecol 18:549–554 Hartmann T, Dierich B (1998) ...

Andreas Schaller, 2008

List of the Specimens of the British Animals in the ...

ARCTIID^. Arctiidœ, Step. H. ii. 3, 1828. Sub-F. I. LIPARIDL. Liparidi, Step. MSS. Liparides, Bois. I. M.2ed. 66, 1840. 69. LYMANTRIA. Lymantria, Hüb. V. 160, 1816. Psilura, Step. H. ii. 79, 1828. 1. Lymantbia Monacha. The Black Arches.

British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray, 1850