Sphinx Moths

• Body symmetry

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
  • Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry

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  bilaterally symmetric

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
  • Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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• cellularity

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
  • Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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  multicellular

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
  • Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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• developmental mode

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
  • Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature

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  holometabolous

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
  • Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.

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• feeding structure

  • URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/FeedingStructure
  • Definition: The morphological structure of body parts used to ingest food.

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  biting-chewing mouthparts

  • URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/bitingChewing
  • Definition: Mouthparts adapted to cutting and grinding food particles using opposable mandibles with a mola (grinding surface).

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• geographic distribution includes

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
  • Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.

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  Mozambique

  • URI: https://www.geonames.org/1036973

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• habitat

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
  • Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x

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  tropical

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000204
  • Comment: Ontology Description: http://environmentontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://envo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/envo/envo.owl

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• number of public records in bold

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
  • Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)

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  13901
• type specimen repository

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
  • Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).

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  NHMUK
• visual system

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104
  • Definition: The sensory system subserving the sense of vision.

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  refracting superposition eyes

  • URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/refracting_superposition_eyes
  • Definition: superposition compound eyes where each ommatidium is equipped with a lens cylinder arrangement, producing the equivalent of a pair of lenses, with the first lens producing a small image halfway down the structure and the second lens turning the image back into a parallel beam. In the process the ray direction is reversed. Thus, the emerging beam is on the same side of the axis as the entering beam—the condition for obtaining a superposition image from the whole array.
  • Attribution: https://www.britannica.com/science/photoreception/Superposition-eyes#ref278829

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sphinx moths includes 7 children:

• Langiinae
• Macroglossinae (Macroglossine Sphinx Moths)
• Mioclanis Zhang, Sun & Zhang 1994
• Smerinthinae
• Sphingidites Kernbach 1967
• Sphinginae
• Teisseirei Roselli 1939
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