单词 | yellow-spot unicorn hawk |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow-spot unicorn hawk 2. Any of various butterflies or moths having yellow spots or markings on the wings or body. Chiefly attributive, as yellow spot jewel, yellow spot swift, †yellow-spot unicorn hawk. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sphingidae > sphinx quinque-maculatus yellow spot1813 1813 Catal. Nat. Hist. in Mus. Dublin Soc. 80 Bom[byx]—Bicolora. Bicoloured Moth... Aulica. Yellow-spot ditto. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 24 The Yellow-spot Unicorn Hawk (Sphinx quinque Maculatus). 1903 C. A. Hart Synopsis Insect Coll. 14 Polites peckius Kirby (Pamphila). Yellow Spot. 1926 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 31 iii. 635 [Baoris] eliola... The Yellow Spot Swift. Mussoorie to Karens. 2004 M. F. Braby Butterflies Austral. 222 Yellow Jewel Hypochrysops byzos. Other name: Yellow-spot Jewel. < as lemmas |
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