Digglesia [SEP] parent taxon
Pararguda
Pararguda is a genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. The genus was erected by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1908. All the species identified in this genus were found in Australia.
Species.
Based on Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms:
- "Pararguda nasuta"
- "Pararguda tephropsis"
- "Pararguda nana"
- "Pararguda albida"
- "Pararguda spodopa"
- "Pararguda crocota"
- "Pararguda australasiae"
- "Pararguda rufescens"
never completely published because of financial problems. He and his niece Rowena Birkett produced some 325 hand-coloured plates of some 600 Australian birds for a work titled "The Ornithology of Australia", of which three volumes were published from 1865 to 1870.
The moth genus of "Digglesia", the brushed trapdoor spider "Ozicrypta digglesi", and the sea snail "Zafra digglesi" are named after him.
Diggles' health deteriorated from about 1875, a contributing factor being worries about his publishing problems. He died