单词 | poplar lutestring |
释义 | > as lemmaspoplar lutestring poplar lutestring n. a Eurasian noctuid moth, Tethea or (family Thyatiridae), which has brown markings on its grey forewings and whose larvae feed on the leaves of aspen and poplar trees. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Cymatophoridae, Polyplocidae, or Thyatiridae > member of poplar lutestring1819 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 402 The lesser Lutestring..The Poplar Lutestring. 1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) xiii. 191 The black form..of the Poplar Lutestring, which has increased in so spectacular a fashion in industrial Germany.., seems in this country to have been found only in a restricted rural area in Yorkshire. 1984 B. Skinner Moths Brit. Isles 14/2 Poplar Lutestring... Larva. All the races feed on aspen, but those of the English race are found occasionally on poplar. < as lemmas |
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