The proboscis of eye-frequenting and piercing Lepidoptera (Insecta)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 77-83

  Büttiker, Wilhelm ^a   Krenn, Harald W ^b   Putterill, John F ^c  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIDAE; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 0040296902     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02526872     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Adler PH (1982) Soil- and puddle-visiting habits of moths. J Lepid Soc 36/3:161-173
2. Altner H, Altner I (1986) Sensilla with both, terminal pore and wall pores on the proboscis of the moth. Rhodogastria bubo Walker (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Zool Anz 216/3,4:129-150
3. Bänziger H (1968) Preliminary observations on a skin-piercing blood-sucking moth (Calyptra eustrigata) (Hmps) (Lep, Noctuidae)) in Malaya. Bull Entomol Res 58:159-163
4. Bänziger H (1970) The piercing mechanism of the fruit-piercing moth Calpe [Calyptra] thalictri Bkh (Noctuidae) with reference to the skin-piercing blood-sucking moth C. eustrigata Hmps. Acta Trop 27:53-88
5. Bänziger H ( 1973) Biologie der lacriphagen Lepidopteren in Thailand and Malaya. Rev Suisse Zool 79:1381-1469
6. Bänziger H (1980) Skin-piercing blood-sucking moths III: feeding act and piercing mechanism of Calyptra eustrigata (Hmps) (Lep. Noctuidae). Mitt Schweiz ent Ges 53:127-142
7. Bänziger H (1982) Fruit-piercing moths (Lep. Noctuidae) in Thailand: A general survey and some new perspectives. Mitt Schweiz ent Ges 55:213-240
8. Bänziger H (1983) A taxonomic revision of the fruit-piercing and blood-sucking moth genus Calyptra Ochsenheimer [=Calyptra Treitschke] (Lepidoptera Noctuidae). Ent Scand 14: 467-491
9. Bänziger H (1987) Description of new moths which settle on man and animals in SE Asia (genera Thliptoceras, Hemiscopis, Toxobotys, Pyralidae, Lepid.). Rev Suisse Zool 94:671-681
10. Bänziger H (1992) Remarkable new cases of moths drinking human tears in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae). Nat Hist Bull Soc Siam 40:91-102
11. Bänziger H (1995) Microstega homoculorum sp.n. - the most frequently observed lachryphagous moth of man (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae: Pyraustinae). Rev Suiss Zool 102/2:265-276
12. Bänziger H, Büttiker W (1969) Records of eye-frequenting Lepidoptera from man. J Med Entomol 6:53-58
13. Blaney WM, Simmonds SJ (1988) Food selection in adults and larvae of three species of Lepidoptera: a behavioural and electrophysiological study. Entomol Exp Appl 49:111-121
14. Börner C (1939) Die Grundlagen meines Lepidopterensystems. Verh 7. Int Kongr Entomologie 2:1374-1424
15. Büttiker W (1959) Observations on feeding habits of adult Westermanniinae (Lepid, Noctuidae) in Cambodia. Acta Trop 16: 356-361
16. Büttiker W (1962) Biological and morphological notes on the fruit-piercing and eye-frequenting moths. 11. Int Kongr Entomologie Wien (1960) 2:10-17
17. Büttiker W (1967) Biological notes on eye-frequenting moths from N Thailand. Mitt Schweiz Entomol Ges 39/3,4:151-179
18. Büttiker W (1970) Strange parasites of the eye. Ciba Symposium 17:22-29
19. Büttiker W (1973) Vorläufige Beobachtungen an augenbesuchenden Schmetterlingen in der Elfenbeinküste. Rev Suisse Zool 80:1-43
20. Büttiker W (1993) Domestic and wild mammalian hosts of ophthalmotropic Lepidoptera in Africa. Entomologist Extraordinary. S Afr Inst Med Res, Johannesburg, pp 5-9
21. Büttiker W (1996) Midgut structure and contents in some higher moths, especially in eye-frequenting taxa. Entomol Basiliensia (in press)
22. Darwin F (1875) On the structure of the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica, on orange-sucking moth. Quart J Microsc Sci 15:385-390
23. Downes JA (1973) Lepidoptera feeding at puddle-margins, dung, and carrion. J Lepid Soc 27/2:89-99
24. Eastham LES, Eassa JEE (1955) The feeding mechanism of the butterfly Pieris brassicae. Phil Trans R Soc London B 239:1-43
25. Frings H, Frings M (1956) The loci of contact chemoreceptors involved in feeding reactions in certain Lepidoptera. Biol Bull 110:291-299
26. Gouws JJ, Coetzer JAW, Howell PG (1995) A comparative microbiological study of clinically healthy eyes and those affected by ophthalmia in cattle and the association of noctuid eye-frequenting moths. Tydskr S Afr Vet Assoc 66/3:160-169
27. Krenn HW (1990) Functional morphology and movements of the proboscis of Lepidoptera (Insecta). Zoomorphology 110: 105-114
28. Nicolet J, Büttiker W (1975a) Observations sur la kérato-conjonctivite infectieuse du bovin en Côte d'Ivoire 1. Aspects microbiologiques. Rev Elev Med Vet Pays Trop 28/2: 115-124
29. Nicolet J, Büttiker W (1975b) Observations sur la kérato-conjonctivite infectieuse du bovin en Côte d'Ivoire 2. Étude sur le rôle vecteur des lépidoptères ophthalmotropes. Rev Elev Med Vet Pays Trop 28/2:125-132
30. Norris MJ (1936) The feeding-habits of the adult Lepidoptera Heteroneura. Trans R Entomol Soc London 85:61-90
31. Reid ETM (1954) Observations on feeding habits of adult Arcyophora. Proc R Entomol Soc London B 23/11, 12:200-204
32. Salama HS, Khalifa A, Azmy N, Sharaby A (1984) Gustation in the lepidopterous moth Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd). Zool Jb Physiol 88:165-178
33. Sellier R (1975) Étude ultrastructurale en microscopic électronique par balayage des organes sensoriels de la trompe des Lépidoptères Rhopalocères. Alexanor 9:9-15
34. Srivastava RP, Bogawat JT (1969) Feeding mechanism of a fruit-sucking moth Othreis materna (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J Nat Hist 3:165-181