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Gortyna nitela
Stalk Stalk, n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. st[ae]l, stel, a stalk. See Stale a handle, Stall.] 1. (Bot.) (a) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp. (b) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. 2. That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. --Grew. 3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. 4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] To climd by the rungs and the stalks. --Chaucer. 5. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids. (b) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect. (c) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans. 6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. Stalk borer (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a noctuid moth (Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.

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- Gortyna /ɡɔːrˈtaɪnə/ (Ancient Gr****: Γόρτυνα; also known as Gortyn (Γορτύν)) was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the...
- Saint Philip of Gortyna (Gr****: Φίλιππος; died 180) was Bishop of Gortyna on Crete. Little is known about him except for his authorship of a now lost...
- Gortyna (Gr****: Γόρτυνα), is a former muni****lity in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the muni****lity...
- Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Gr****: Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα, pronounced [ˈɣortina]) is a muni****lity, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean...
- Family: Noctuidae Genus: Papaipema Species: P. nebris Binomial name Papaipema nebris Guenée, 1852 Synonyms Gortyna nebris Gortyna nitela Papaipema nitella...
- Gortyna xanthenes, the artichoke moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1842. It is found on the Canary...
- Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Noctuidae Genus: Papaipema Species: P. cerina Binomial name Papaipema cerina (Grote, 1874) Synonyms Gortyna cerina Grote, 1874...
- Binomial name Papaipema leucostigma (Harris, 1841) Synonyms Gortyna leucostigma Harris, 1841 Gortyna purpurifascia Grote & Robinson, 1868 Papaipema luteipicta...
- Gortyna is a moth genus in the family Noctuidae. Gortyna basalipunctata Gaeser, 1888 Gortyna borelii Pierret, 1837 (= Hydroecia leucographa) Gortyna flavago...
- obliqua (Harvey, 1876) Synonyms Gortyna obliqua Harvey 1876 Gortyna ximena Barnes & Benjamin, 1924 Hydraecia ximena Gortyna columbia Barnes & Benjamin, 1924...