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Usta
Usta is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1863.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cavorting Emperor
speciesUsta terpsichore
Wallengren's Emperor
speciesUsta wallengrenii
Usta angulata
speciesUsta angulata
Usta subangulata
speciesUsta subangulata
Usta grantae
speciesUsta grantae
Usta alba
speciesUsta alba
Usta arabica
speciesUsta arabica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Phytognomonica
Giambattista della Porta · 1588 · p.162
Margarita philosophica
Reisch, Gregorius · 1504 · p.463
Ulyssis Aldrovandi ... De reliquis animalibus exanguibus, utpote de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis & zoophytis, libri quatuor post mortem eius editi
Aldrovandi, Ulisse · 1618 · p.47
Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画), Vol. 1
Katsushika Hokusai · 1814 · p.23
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch · 1770 · p.119
Jean Jules Linden — Pescatorea: iconographie des orchidées (1860)
Jean Jules Linden · 1860 · p.161
The Book of Nature
Jan Swammerdam · 1737 · p.439
Jan Jonston — Naeukeurige beschryving van de natuur der viervoetige dieren (1660)
Jan Jonston · 1660 · p.109
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.201
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.267
Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1705 · p.57
Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1705 · p.67
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 428929.