myoglossatan
English
death's-head hawkmoth
Etymology
translingual Myoglossata + -an
Adjective
myoglossatan (comparative more myoglossatan, superlative most myoglossatan)
- (zoology) Of or pertaining to the clade Myoglossata, including butterflies and moths.
- 2022 June 27, Weiting Zhang,Chungkun Shih,Michael S. Engel,Dong Ren, Cretaceous lophocoronids with short proboscis and retractable female genitalia provide the earliest evidence for their feeding and oviposition habits:
- Based on molecular data, Kristensen et al. (2015) contradicted the myoglossatan monophyly, in favour of the clade Acanthopteroctetidae + ...
- 1998, Teilband/Part 35 Volume 1: Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography:
- Other putative myoglossatan au- tapomorphies include the somewhat enlarged median mesonotal wing process, as well as the upwards bend of acrotergite I and ...
Hypernyms
- coelolepidan
Hyponyms
- archaic bell moth
- neolepidopteran