Others are "negatives" of the sky motif, with black and yellow marks speckling off-white grounds.
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California alone has an estimated 66 million dead trees speckling its landscapes and waiting to become wildfire fuel.
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In recent days, he has begun speckling his remarks with more populist themes, like the value of work.
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But... The show occasionally lurches between its wildly different tones, awkwardly speckling dramatic scenes with bad jokes and vice versa.
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In fact, after driving with an open Coke I later found brown splatter speckling the dash above the cup holder.
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The paucity of craters speckling Sputnik Planitia shows that the ice plain&aposs surface has been shaped by geological activity recently .
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The image shown on the NASA stream demonstrates dust speckling InSight's camera, and it shows what appears to be the Martian horizon.
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Except for a speckling of acne on Ibadeta's chin, their skin was perfect, and their bodies, just past puberty, looked agile and lithe.
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And the presence of speckling raises the possibility that there may have been nest parasites long before the appearance of birds — the cuckoo dinosaur.
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It's meant to be a homage to the burger at Peter Luger, down to the casual speckling of sesame seeds on the toasted hard roll.
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His name is Abdullah Sheila, of the 8th Division, 23rd Brigade, and he stands in the cold with paint speckling his camo uniform and his boots.
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Sweat speckling her brow, Camacho and others heaved a granite lid on top of that, rolling it into position with the help of rusty metal pipes.
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Splotches of old chewing gum speckling a dirty concrete floor became "an everyday creative masterpiece" that drew inspiration from the celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and her polka dots.
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Nagata has something of an eye for dark details; the blood speckling the dry blocks of noodles she wolfs frantically down is one of the most memorable images of the book.
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Without all the synthetic hormones coursing through my blood, my cystic acne disappeared, but it was quickly replaced by a speckling of red spots that moved in for the majority of each month.
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Now speckling the crowds are Gary Sanchez T-shirts and No. 24 jerseys, evidence, it would seem, that fans are investing emotionally and financially — those licensed jerseys retail for $129.99 — in the team's slugging rookie catcher.
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But that's fitting for a biography of the straightforward farmer from Plains, Ga. Kyung Eun Han's fine-lined work – its pale colors and faint speckling, as in old photos – calls to mind traced photographs or rotoscope animation.
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One last feature Panasonic is touting on the ZS200 is the addition of the company's new L.monochrome filter which supposedly adds truly random speckling to produce the closest thing to real film grain you can get on a digital camera.
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Mr. West, whose ambitions are often grander than his fellow stadium-packing stars, is not merely introducing his own pop-up shops (as he and others have before), he is speckling the globe with them, in one weekend-long swoop.
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The AHL teams played beneath banners celebrating the Whalers' six retired numbers and two division championships (one in the WHA, another in the NHL), and from high in the stands, it was easy to spot green Whalers jerseys speckling the crowd.
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CreditCreditAntonio de Moraes Barros Filho/FilmMagic It was snowing outside, speckling the stiletto boots and soaking the tights of the fashion folk, and inside, snow lay lightly on the ground for Thom Browne's show, deep in the bowels of a Chelsea art gallery where Mr. Browne had recreated Washington Square circa the Henry James years.
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At first glance, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image seems to show an array of different cosmic objects, but the speckling of stars shown here actually forms a single body — a nearby dwarf galaxy known as Leo A. Its few million stars are so sparsely distributed that some distant background galaxies are visible through it.
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At a later dinner I enjoyed a bowl of mussels (a bit too scrawny) in a zesty ginger-lemongrass broth, followed by a perfect risotto of the day: cheese- and wild-mushroom-riddled; firm (not soupy as so many restaurant versions seem to be today); edged with grilled shrimp and cherry tomatoes; and topped with a speckling of Parmesan flakes speckled.
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The underparts are pale cinnamon-rufous, with some grey speckling on the throat.
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The petals may have darker spots near the base and purple or red speckling.
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The forewings are white, slightly speckled dark fuscous towards the costa and posteriorly. There are three or four indistinct strigulae (fine streaks) of dark fuscous speckling on the costa anteriorly. The hindwings are pale whitish yellowish, with some slight grey speckling posteriorly.Exotic Microlep.
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The forewings are pale pinkish ochreous, with some slight irregular dark grey speckling and a small undefined spot of denser speckling on the costa at one- third and a larger more apparent blotch about three-fifths. The hindwings are light slaty grey.Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (7): 196.
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Mississippi State University. The wingspan 13–18 mm. The ground color of the forewings is white with grayish- brown bands and dark speckling. The hindwings are white with a dark median band, a patch of dark speckling near the costa and a line of black pale- centered spots along the outer margin.
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Feeding by adult weevils, which are between 2.1 and 2.8 mm long, results in brown speckling on the plant's leaves.
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4: 332. The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The forewings are grey, whitish speckled and with a very oblique black rhomboidal blotch from the middle of the costa, closely preceded by two black strigulae finely separated with white speckling and margined posteriorly with fine white speckling. There is a narrow semi-oval black spot on the costa towards the apex, preceded by a black strigula separated by fine white speckling, between this and preceding the ground colour tinged ochreous and becoming clear brownish ochreous beneath it to apex.
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The wingspan is 13–16 mm. White with sparse, sometimes obscure, darker speckling. Forewing ground colour white. Apical cilia greyish fuscous.
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It is a light lime green, with pale green or white speckling, and turns a medium brown about two days before eclosion.
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The markings are indicated by dark reddish-fuscous irroration (speckling). The hindwings are ochreous, the dorsal third tinged with fuscous."Revision of Australian Tortricina".
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The arms and legs are dorsally tan and have some thin, broken black bands. The venter is blue and has varying degree of black speckling.
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There is a varying amount of cream to bright orange decoration consisting of scattered blotches and broad dorsolateral bands that reach the lores; this color may occasionally cover the entire dorsum. The brown coloration fades on the flanks to an off-white belly with brown speckling, with denser speckling on the throat. The lips are spotted, The iris is mid-brown. Males have a subgular vocal sac.
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The forewings are ochreous-whitish, thinly and irregularly speckled grey, with a small undefined spot of blackish-grey speckling on the middle of the costa and some irregular blackish-grey speckling in the middle of the disc. There are also slight blackish dots on the tornus and on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are light grey, subhyaline and whitish- tinged anteriorly.Exotic Microlep.
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The abdomen is light yellowish or yellowish-gray with sparse speckling. They are on wing year round. The larvae feed on the leaves of Dichondra caroliniensis.
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The ground colour of the forewings is either golden yellow or brownish orange with speckling of orange and dark brown scales. The hindwings are greyish white.
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This is bright olive-green on the upperside with dark speckling on the crown. The centre of the belly has a bright patch of pale yellow.
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Red (savage) eye. Different eyes. Weak speckling of the head (less than 50% white-colored feathers). White-colored feathers in parts of the body other than the head.
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The underparts of the female bar-tailed cuckoo-dove are rufous-buff but the feathers are not bifurcated and the breast lacks the black speckling of Mackinlay's cuckoo- dove.
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Female, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania The Nubian woodpecker Is a medium-sized species growing to a length of about . The male has a red crown and nape and a reddish streak on the cheek, while the female has a black crown speckled with white, a red nape, and a dark cheek stripe with white speckling. In other respects, the sexes are similar. The upper parts are olive-brown with much cream speckling and barring.
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There are two colour phases; iron-grey, with black and whitish speckling, and tawny-grey, with less black and more buffy speckling. In appearance it is very similar to a domestic cat, although the legs are proportionately longer. The most distinguishable characteristic is the rich reddish-brown colour on the backs of the ears, over the belly and on the back legs. Its body length is with a long tail; and weight range .
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The underparts are reddish-brown with white speckling on the sides of the breast and dark barring near the vent. The juvenile is similar but has an orange or reddish bill.
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The forewings are pale stramineous, with tawny brownish speckling grouped in a costal streak at the base and a costal spot beyond the middle, an elongate discal spot scarcely before the middle, and another resting on the fold, below and somewhat before it, the speckling being carried along the fold to the base. At the lower edge of the plical patch is a small black spot lying on the fold and along the termen the brown speckling is almost continuous, forming a narrow band in which is another small black spot at about the middle. There are also indications of three brown spots along the middle of the terminal cilia which are pale stramineous. The hindwings are pale shining steel-grey.
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The belly is generally lighter in color: cream, yellow-green or pale green. The dorsal pattern may have irregular blotches, turquoise to black, or speckling that doesn't reach very far down the sides. The head has two black stripes and black speckling on top, which are less visible towards the tail. Like all other pitvipers, B. thalassinus has heat sensitive organs, or loreal pits, located on either side of the head between the eye and the nostril.
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The clutch consists of 2 to 4 eggs. The eggs are pale salmon pink with speckling. The eggs are incubated for about 16 or 17 days by both the male and female.
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The eggs are pale pink or white with reddish brown speckling. The eggs hatch synchronously and the nestlings fledge after about 13 days. Nestlings are fed with caterpillars, soft insects and berries.
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The forewings are white with patches of olive-brown speckling with blackish scales. The hindwings are shining brownish- cinereous.lepiforum.de The larvae feed on Santolina species. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
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Three to seven pale blue eggs with light reddish speckling are laid and incubated by the female. They hatch after about eleven days and the young fledge in about a further thirteen days.
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Scoparia coecimaculalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is found on the Azores.Fauna Europaea The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are brownish grey, with fuscous speckling and markings.
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The forewings are pale tan to whitish with dark speckling. The hindwings are pale yellowish with a darker terminal line. Adults are on wing from May to July. The larvae probably feed on grasses.
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Also, the red in campbelli tends to be especially vibrant and bright compared to other subspecies. Non-morph Pueblan milk snakes always have pure white coloration on their light bands, save for some black speckling.
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The young of cinereous tinamous are capable of moving around when they are hatched to the point that they can almost run as soon as they're hatched. They are dark brown with a reddish speckling.
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The larvae feed on Dalbergia species. They have a grey body with black and white speckling and a greyish black head. Pupation takes place in a folded leaf in a pupa with a heavy powdery bloom.
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The forewings are uniform yellowish to light brown with fine dark speckling and lines. The hindwings are similar. Adults are on wing in late spring and summer. The larvae feed on the leaves of Quercus species.
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This goniodorid nudibranch is black in colour with a fine speckling of cream spots. The oral tentacles, lateral papillae, tail and rhinophores are tipped with orange and the gills are translucent with small yellow and black spots.
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There is some reddish-brown pigment that forms a band between the eyes and covers the supra-ocular area (interspersed with yellow speckling), as well as forming a faint rostral stripe between the eye and nose tip.
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The eyes are slightly larger and more prominent than in Murray cod. The head tends to be free of speckling however a distinct dark stripe through the eye is usually present. Trout cod are cream to light grey on their ventral (“belly”) surfaces. Their back and flanks are most commonly bluish-grey in colour, overlain with irregular black speckling, but this can be highly variable depending on the habitat specimens come from, and can range from almost white to light grey-green, light brown, dark brown or almost black.
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Eois perstrigata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Peru. The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are pale lilac-grey along the costa and pale brick-red below, with fine dark speckling.
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World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (acc.28-Nov-2015) The wingspan is 21–28 mm. The forewings are white or ochreous-whitish, with scattered dots or strigulae (lines) of dark fuscous irroration (speckling) except beneath the fold.
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Its scales are smooth and strongly oblique. The eyes are moderate in size with round pupils. The body of this species is yellowish-brown to dull brown, with darker brownish mottling. The belly is pale with some dark speckling.
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Lobocleta peralbata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona to Florida, north to North Carolina.mothphotographersgroup The wingspan is 11–20 mm. The forewings are white with brown speckling.
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The back of the abdomen is medium brown with indistinct speckling, the underside is black. One male was collected on a tree trunk, several juveniles were collected by beating moss-covered branches and tree trunks in the understorey of lowland rainforest.
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The ground colour of the forewings is white, covered by dark speckling and overlaid by dark grey, dull orangish and brownish-grey shading in the antemedial, postmedial and subterminal areas.Bug Guide Adults have been recorded on wing from May to September.
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It moves its tail around frequently, making this feature even more obvious for observers. Juveniles look similar to adults, with only a few key differences. Their beaks are usually shorter and stockier. In addition, their underbelly might feature some faint speckling.
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Tortyra malacozona is a moth of the family Choreutidae. It is known from Peru and Costa Rica. The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are dark grey, with the tips of the scales white, forming a very close minute speckling.
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It has moderate sized parotoid glands. The ventral surface is white with a fair amount of dark blue/black speckling. There is an orange patch in the thighs. The flanks of this species is normally bluish in colour, giving it a dusky appearance.
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The northern royal albatross is typically about ,BirdLife International (2008) weighs and has a wingspan from .Robertson, C. J. R. (2003)Answers.com The juvenile has a white head, neck, upper mantle, rump, and underparts. There is dark speckling on the crown and rump.
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A black white-edged dash is found beneath the apex and there is a fine marginal line of black and white speckling around the apex and termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline (almost glass like) anteriorly.Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (12): 282.
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The back may have dark speckling and irregular spots. A thin, white line runs from the tip of the snout along the canthus to the edge of the eyelid. The throat and chest are yellow-orange. The webbing is deep orange-red.
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Snakes found at higher altitudes have darker colors. Specimens of the mottled rock rattlesnake (C. l. lepidus) from the Davis Mountains region often exhibit a more pink coloration, with dark-grey speckling rather than distinct banding. The banded rock rattlesnake (C. l.
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2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The ground colour is buff, streaked with whitish and with darker speckling.
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Gelechia petraea is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Guatemala.Gelechia at funet The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are whitish cinereous, or pale stone-colour, with a scarcely perceptible ochreous tinge and some scattered transverse greyish brown speckling.
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Zanna is a genus of tropical lantern bugs (family Fulgoridae) found in Asia and Africa. They are mostly grey with black speckling with a long snout with some folds on the surface. Although usually placed in the family Fulgoridae, molecular studies question this placement.
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McCann's skink have a slim and beautiful figure. In particular, the width of its neck is almost the same as that of the head. It has creamy-grey, yellow or brown soles of the feet and belly. The throat often has fine black speckling.
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The sides are finely spotted with yellow. The tail is yellow, while the other fins are dusky yellow. When the fish is fresh, reddish brown speckling is visible on some of the scales. As with many of the rockfish, identification can be somewhat difficult.
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Spatalistis translineata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on Java. The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are yellow, finely reticulated with dark ferruginous-brown speckling, and more or less strewn with numerous pale silvery-leaden dots.
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Eacles adoxa is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia. It is yellow with heavy red-orange speckling all over the wings. Orange eyespots are located in the center of each wing.
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Choreutis plectodes is a species of moth of the family Choreutidae. It is found in South Africa. The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are fuscous suffusedly mixed with darker fuscous, and irregularly speckled with whitish and with an irregular straight transverse whitish line at a transverse whitish mark in the disc at two-thirds, as well as a whitish line from the costa beyond the middle, running obliquely outwards and curved around the discal mark, where it is interrupted and replaced with whitish speckling, then irregularly dentate to the dorsum beyond the middle but again interrupted with whitish speckling on the fold.
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M. sundevallii usually has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , but may grow to almost SVL. Dorsally, it is grayish or light brown, with dark brown speckling. Ventrally, it is uniformly cream-colored, except for the underside of the tail, which may have speckling.Branch, Bill (2004).
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The hindwings have two transverse brownish bands, separated by a white area. There is a triangular patch of fine black speckling. Adults are on wing from May to September in two generations per year. The larvae are aquatic and feed on diatoms, including Navicula and Cymbella species.
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Phthorimaea ferella is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1875 and is found in Patagonia. The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The forewings are dirty yellowish brown with dark irroration (speckling), which is somewhat lighter on the inner margin.
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Unlike the members of the genus Bycanistes, the two species in the genus Ceratogymna have extensive, primarily blue, bare facial skin and dewlap, and the only white in their plumage is in the tail (although the yellow-casqued wattled hornbill has slight whitish speckling on the neck).
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Pselnophorus belfragei (Belfrage's plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the south-eastern United States, from South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and Oklahoma. The wingspan is about . Adults have light gray forewings with dark speckling and three or four black spots.
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Nests are often built in the vicinity of the nest of a black drongo. Two or three white eggs with reddish, brown and black speckling form the typical clutch. Both parents take part in nest and brood care, defending the nest against intruding birds such as shikras and crows.
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Amselina parapsesta is a moth of the family Autostichidae. It is found in Asia Minor.New Symmocid and Holcopogonid Species from the Eastern Mediterranean The wingspan is 14–17 mm. It is very similar to Amselina emir, but the greyish irroration (speckling) is denser and the indistinct spot is larger.
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Sparganothoides xenopsana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Puebla, Mexico. The length of the forewings is 11.9–13.1 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is mostly brownish orange, with yellowish brown to orange patches and speckling of dark brown scales.
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Pyrgotis calligypsa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are white, with a grey basal patch with some strigulae (fine streaks) consisting of blackish irroration (speckling) and suffused with white towards the costa.
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Palaeotoma styphelana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, with fine blackish strigulae (fine streaks) and irroration (speckling).
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R. lapidifer can grow to a maximum length around . It resembles a marine snapper (genus Lutjanus) in body shape and has five distinctive dark vertical bars on each side. The lips are large and underslung. The main body colour is an iridescent silvery-violet with random gold speckling.
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There is a white speckling on forehead along with a prominent dark eye patch. The underside is mostly white, which turned dark grey at underwings. The black bill is about 25–32 mm long, has a sharp hook. Legs are pink with black on the outer webs and toes.
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Capua aridela is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Norfolk Island. The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are silvery-white with scanty grey irroration (speckling) and sparsely scattered pale-ochreous scales and black markings.
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Epitrichosma phaulera is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, with fuscous irroration (speckling) and a rather large basal patch indicated by fuscous irroration.
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Anarsia euphorodes is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in China and Taiwan. The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish, thinly and irregularly speckled with grey and with a small undefined spot of blackish-grey speckling on the middle of the costa.
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The normal wild type animal is brown/tan with gold speckles and an olive undertone. The four mutant colors are leucistic (pale pink with black eyes), albino (golden with gold eyes), axanthic (grey with black eyes) and melanoid (all black with no gold speckling or olive tone). In addition, there is wide individual variability in the size, frequency, and intensity of the gold speckling and at least one variant that develops a black and white piebald appearance on reaching maturity. Because pet breeders frequently cross the variant colors, animals that are double recessive mutants are common in the pet trade, especially white/pink animals with pink eyes that are double homozygous mutants for both the albino and leucistic trait.
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The wingspan is 10–13 mm. The forewings are yellowish white, speckled and mottled with olive-grey, becoming darker or more fuscous in certain spots, these are indistinctly separable from the profuse speckling which commences a little beyond the base, three are placed on the line of the fold at equal distances, the outer one being a little beyond the middle of the wing. There is also a small spot about the flexus, another beyond the end of the cell, and the speckling about the end of the termen is somewhat grouped, with intermediate pale spaces at and below the apex, it is also partly distributed through the pale whitish cinereous cilia. The hindwings are very pale bronzy grey.
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The antennae are black with white speckling on the shafts. The body is brown with a purple flush on fresh specimens. The female has a dark grey-blue upperside, with black parts and broader edging. The undersides of the wings are like those of the male but with more stark markings.
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The Ozark bass is a comparatively slender species of rock bass with a large eye which has a red iris. The brownish-green body has an irregular pattern of black-speckling. This species attains a maximum total length of but they are normally around and the maximum published weight is .
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Sparganothoides umbosana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Sinaloa, Mexico. The length of the forewings is 11.2 mm for males and 12.5 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings is mostly golden yellow, with speckling of greyish brown and dark brown scales.
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Thelma's agonopterix moth (Agonopterix thelmae) is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in North America from New England to South Carolina, west to Kentucky and Illinois, north to Michigan and southern Ontario. The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are yellowish-brown with extensive dark speckling.
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The cheeks of P. tibialis are black with no speckling. Flies from the family Conopidae have thick ptilina, sacks on the head that can be inflated to break through the puparium wall. The ptilinum of P. tibialis contains numerous sclerotised scales, which help with eclosion from the host and digging behavior.
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The eggs are elliptical, strong, and variably coloured with heavy speckling. The common nighthawk lays two eggs per clutch; the eggs are laid over a period of 1 to 2 days. The female alone displays a brood patch. The chicks may be heard peeping in the hours before they hatch.
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A light fuscous line is found close beyond this on the upper half but similarly interrupted with whitish speckling beyond the discal mark, then irregularly dentate and somewhat mixed with whitish to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are dark grey.Meyrick E. 1921b. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera.
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The Valdina Farms salamander grows from in length, with short legs, reduced eyes under a layer of skin, and external gills. They are grey- or cream-colored, and translucent, sometimes with pale yellow striping or white speckling. Few specimens are known, so the variability of their color and pattern is unknown.
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The Fourche Mountain salamander has a sturdier body shape than most of the other salamander species in the locality. Its back is black with two rows of irregular grey blotches and a speckling of smaller pale spots. The underside is dark with a few lighter spots and the chin is pale.
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Their upperparts are dark brown to pale chestnut, with white speckling. Females are considerably darker, as well as larger, than the males, ranging from in length, compared with the males’ . They have broad, black-bordered, buff to chestnut facial discs, and fully feathered legs with powerful feet and long talons.
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Prigogine's nightjar is a small nightjar at 19 cm, short-tailed and large-headed. The adult female is dark brown with heavy speckling. In flight it is again mainly brown, without the white wing marking found in many of its relatives. There are pale brown wing spots, and whitish tail feather tips.
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Argyrotaenia quercifoliana, oak leafroller, size: 8.8 mm Argyrotaenia quercifoliana, the yellow-winged oak leafroller moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in eastern North America.Bug Guide The wingspan is 16–24 mm. Adults have pale yellowish-cream forewings with golden- brown speckling and brown, oblique lines.
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This species of Trapania is unusual in having raised rounded tubercles all over the body. It is translucent white in colour with dense speckling of brown and some larger brown patches. The lateral papillae have a patch of white surrounding a blue diagonal streak.Rudman, W.B., 2008 (March 10) Trapania palmula Gosliner & Fahey, 2008.
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The moth flies in one generation from mid-May to August . Larva greyish brown or dark brown; dorsal line paler, with dark irregular edges; a subdorsal row of blackish sagittate (arrowhead shaped) markings; spiracular line darker; head brown with dark speckling. The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants including nettle and dandelion.
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The forewings are whitish with very scanty fuscous irroration (speckling). The stigmata are minute, fuscous, the first discal at one-third, the plical beyond it, the second discal before two-thirds. There are some fuscous dots on the termen and apical two-fifths of the costa. The hindwings are whitish.Proc. Linn. Soc.
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The finger and toe tips are blunt; the toes have basal webbing. Skin is dorsally covered by many small tubercles of various sizes. In preserved specimens, the dorsum is dark grey or black with obscure light speckling that becomes heavier low on the sides. The venter is white with thin black lines.
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The underparts are brown with buff, cinnamon and white speckling. The flanks and belly are generally paler, with some brown barring. Female birds are rather tawnier and brighter than males, and juveniles are similar to the adults but paler and duller. The beak is brown, the iris yellow and the legs brown.
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The southern water skink is a medium-sized skink with a snout-to-vent length of up to . The head and body are mainly olive-brown, with darker speckles. The flanks are olive- brown with pale speckling. It does not have markings underneath the chin nor a pale stripe on the cheeks.
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Papaipema arctivorens, the northern burdock borer, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Quebec to northern Georgia, west to Missouri and north to Minnesota and Ontario.Papaipema arctivorens, Bug Guide The wingspan is 27–39 mm. The forewings are light orange with rusty red shading and speckling.
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The Larch Mountain salamander is a small, terrestrial salamander. The species is characterized by a variable dorsal stripe, typically orange, light brown, or yellow, which is often blotchy. The ground color is brown, with light speckling in certain areas. This species is easily distinguishable from other western Plethodon by its reddish-salmonish venter.
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Heterodon nasicus and H. kennerlyi tend to be sandy colored with black and white markings, while H. platirhinos varies from reds, greens, oranges, browns, to melanistic (i.e. black) depending on locality. They are sometimes blotched and sometimes solid- colored. Leiohetereodon geayi is a brown or tan colored snake with dark speckling on it.
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Larva ochreous grey, paler, more greenish, at sides; lines greenish edged with black: the subspiracular line whitish and double; head with black speckling. The larva is green or brown with two white stripes down each side. It feeds on a range of plants (see list below). The species overwinters as an egg.
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This fish is 50 to 65 millimeters in length. It is olive green in color with black speckling and a black stripe. During the breeding season in April through July the stripe becomes a deeper black, there are red areas on the upper parts, and the fins become yellow.Johnson, T. D., et al.
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The forewings are white with a rather thick light fuscous streak throughout, speckled dark fuscous, narrow towards base. There is a light fuscous tornal spot, more or less edged anteriorly with black irroration. There is also a pre-apical spot of fuscous and black speckling, extended into the apical projection. The hindwings are whitish-grey.
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The Synchroscope gave machine minders the capacity to visualise images as they were being printed. In the US, Gravure Research Inc. commissioned Crosfield to develop equipment to stop "speckling", undesirable white flecks in shadow areas. In 1966 the Heliostat, which applied an electric charge of several thousand volts to attract ink to paper, appeared.
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Sparganothoides morata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Panama, Venezuela and Trinidad. The length of the forewings is 5.8–6 mm for males and 5.9–7.1 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings is mainly brownish yellow to brownish orange, with brownish orange to brown speckling.
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The forewings are whitish tan, with irregular gray, brown and cream overscaling and irrorations (speckling). The hindwings are dingy white, with pale gray overscaling and mottling. Adults have been recorded on wing from October to April. Larvae have been reared from the fruit of grape Vitis species, Prunus domestica, Prunus armeniaca and Prunus persica.
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The head and thorax are greyish-ochreous, with a white line above the eyes. The thorax is sometimes white-sprinkled. The antennae are grey and the abdomen is greyish-ochreous with suffused streaks of white irroration (speckling). The forewings are brownish-ochreous, becoming browner posteriorly, more or less sprinkled irregularly with whitish and blackish.
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The tail is prehensile. The juvenile is dark overall, clouded with greyish color and fine yellow speckling on the back. The male of this species can be distinguished by its broad triangular head, with the front teeth of the jaw extending beyond the bottom lip. This species is an excellent climber and difficult to capture.
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The body is translucent with dense surface speckling of red- brown pigment on the back and sides. The areas at the base of the cerata are clear of pigment. There are no dark spots on the ceratal tubercles, just many small white glands below the skin. The maximum recorded body length is 5 mm.
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It is sealed with an operculum made of protein rather than calcium carbonate. The operculum is circular, multispiral, with a central nucleus. The fleshy foot of the snail is a bright reddish orange with black speckling lining the basal margin. Four elongate epipodial tentacles are spaced evenly along both sides of the muscular foot.
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Adults grow to in length and are moderately stout. Elongated supraocular scales form a pair of "horns" or "spines" over the eyes. The color pattern consists of a silvery-gray ground color overlaid with a series of black dorsal blotches that merge to form a broad wavy stripe. Black speckling is present on the flanks.
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The median and subterminal areas have dense light gray speckling and three irregular white spots arranged in a triangle, each white spot is surrounded by black shading. The legs and antennae are banded black and white. It is extremely similar/identical to the Palearctic Tebenna micalis. Adults are on wing in June and July.
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This species was described based on a single adult female, the holotype, measuring in snout–vent length. The tail length is . The overall dorsal coloration is dark brown, getting lighter (gray brown) ventrally. There is coarse yellow to yellow-range dorsal speckling, and large, scattered yellow lateral spots, some of them extending onto the venter.
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The lesser chameleon lives in a dry arboreal habitat, fragmented by grasslands. Generally it leads a solitary lifestyle, often aggressive towards other members of its own species. They hunt opportunistically. Unlike most chameleons, the female is the more colourful sex, gravid females are adorned with alternating greenish-black and yellow bands and yellow speckling highlighting darker areas.
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These are dotted with brown above. The forewings have brown irroration (speckling), forming a vague spot in the middle of the cell. The hindwings and all fringes are almost the same color as the forewings.Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America Adults are on wing from January to May and in September and October.
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Faculta synthetica is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico (Sonora).Faculta at funet The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are blackish with a slight purplish tinge and minute hoary speckling, except where black spots, each accompanied by some brownish ochreous scales, are distinguishable from the less intensely dark wing-surface.
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The forewings are rather dark fuscous, on the dorsal half with a few scattered white scales and with a rather thick attenuated suffused dark fuscous dorsal streak. There is an obscure suffused dark fuscous transverse spot on the end of the cell and a patch of white speckling before the termen. The hindwings are grey.Exotic Microlepidoptera.
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Neophylarcha helicosema is a moth in the Copromorphidae family, and the only species in the genus Neophylarcha. It is found in Guyana and French Guiana. The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous, posteriorly tinged brownish-ochreous with some fuscous speckling and with short blackish- grey marks from the costa and dorsum at the base.
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They tend to be more uniform with less speckling and striping than their cousins of subfamily Nothurinae, the steppe tinamous. Some of the members of the genus Crypturellus are sexually dimorphic with the females being brighter and having more barring with the rest of the subfamily having only slightly larger females as the only difference in the sexes.
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The black-faced munia has a black face, throat, and upper breast. The nape and back are dark brown, and the wings and tail are black. The underparts and rump are white with fine black speckling or barring. The bill is thick and bicoloured, with a dark upper mandible and blue-gray lower mandible, and the legs are dark.
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They nest in small trees, shrubby growth, or cacti. The nests are often compact, made of sticks, plant roots, and stems, and are often lined with leaves, moss, bark and plant roots. They are built mainly by the female. There are usually two to four white to blueish white eggs sometimes with a speckling of pale brown or gray.
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These are a milky-blue colour, usually plain but sometimes with a slight speckling of rusty-brown and measure an average of . The hen incubates the eggs which hatch in about thirteen days. The young are fed by both parents and fledge when about eleven days old, but are not fully independent for another twelve days or so.
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Adult coloration is brown to blue on the back and top of the head, lighter to silvery white on the sides, and white on the ventral surface; speckling is fine, sparse, and restricted to the back. Adults can reach maximum lengths of but most adults are between They feed on plankton but only while at sea.
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Sparganothoides calthograptana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in north-western Hidalgo and the Popocatépetl Park in Mexico. The length of the forewings is 10.3–11.4 mm for males and 10.1–12.2 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings is yellowish brown to brownish orange with speckling of brown-tipped scales.
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On the crown, the feather shafts are dark, producing a somewhat streaked effect. The upper wings and back are blackish brown. The uppertail coverts are whitish buff again, and the rectrices are barred black and whitish, ending in white. The underside is uniformly pale buff; there may be a bit of dark speckling on the thighs, however.
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Length can range from , wingspan from and weight from . On the head, the wild male has a short crest on the nape. The bill is black with a speckling of pale pink. A blackish or dark red knob can be seen at the bill base, which is similar in colour to the bare skin of the face.
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The New Mexico spadefoot toad grows from 1.5 to 2.5 inches in length, and has a round body, with relatively short legs. They are green, to grey, to brown, usually reflecting the soil color of their native habitat, often with black and orange colored speckling on their back, and a white underside. They have large eyes, with vertical pupils.
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Lobocleta ossularia, the drab brown wave moth, is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California to Florida, north in the east to New York and Illinois.mothphotographersgroup The wingspan is 13–19 mm. The forewings are greyish-brown with black speckling and four dark brown lines.
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This deer has a light rump patch without including the tail. Its coat color is brown with a speckling to the hairs. The inner sides of the buttocks are greyish white, followed by a line on the inner sides of the thighs and black on the upper side of the tail. Each antler consists of five tines.
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The forewings are light brownish ochreous, the costal area and cell tinged with whitish except near the base, the costal edge dark grey throughout. There is a slender dark grey dorsal streak from near the base to three-fourths and from one-fourth to the middle of the costa there are three short indistinct irregular lines of dark fuscous speckling becoming obsolete in the disc. A round whitish submedian spot edged with dark fuscous speckling is found before the middle of the wing, and a more obscure similar spot is located rather obliquely before and above it in the disc. There are two round dark fuscous dots transversely placed on the end of the cell and several small dark grey dots are found in an oblique series from the costa at three-fifths.
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The forewings are creamy white, specked and spotted with dark umber-brown. There is a group of three spots forming a triangle at the base, two at half the wing-width, and a third, forming the apex, on the costa at about one-fourth. An oblique streak, apparently composed of two or more dark spots, descends obliquely outward from the costa, reaching to the fold, scarcely separated from its outer edge is another spot on the disc before the middle, and remote from this is another at the end of the cell, the costa being slightly shaded with umber- brown speckling above and before it. At the apex and along the termen is a shade of profuse umber-brown speckling, extending partially into the brownish grey cilia which become whitish about the apex.
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Oncocyclus Hybrid X I. iberica: 'Judas' (White standards, veined and flushed greyed purple; white falls, almost completely obscured by coarse veining and speckling of greyed purple, large black violet signal, C. G. White W-201 X I. iberica). Iris korolkowii X I. iberica crosses; 'Agatha', 'Aglaia' (with purple, silver/grey and violet blooms), 'Antigone' (with black, lavender and violet blooms), 'Belisane' (I.
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The cup-shaped nest is built at ground level or low in a bush. Three to six eggs are laid with four being most common. These are whitish with reddish-brown speckling and are incubated for 12 days. The breeding season is variable, lasting from May to August in India, May to July in Honshū and June to August in Hokkaidō.
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Eadmuna paloa is a species of moth of the family Mimallonidae. It is found in south-eastern and southern Brazil, where it has been recorded from São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Paraná and Minas Gerais. The length of the forewings is for males and for females. The forewings are silvery grey brown with contrasting, extensive speckling due to dark, petiolate scales.
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Nest building takes 4–7 weeks to complete and is composed of twigs, coarse grass and lined with softer grass. The eggs are oval in shape and range from 17-22mm in size. The woodswallows eggs come in a clutch size of 3-4 eggs. , white to dull white in colouration with blotched markings which are red-brown and lavender speckling.
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The starry night cracker is a black butterfly with iridescent blue speckling on its wings. The female has a white band on the underside of the forewing that is broader than the band on the male. The wingspan is about . The caterpillars have short horns on their heads, the function of which is unknown, and the pupae are bright green.
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Spodolepis substriataria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by George Duryea Hulst in 1896. It is found from Alaska to Nova Scotia, south in the east to New Jersey and in the west to California. The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The forewings are light gray with black speckling, often with shades of brown along the costa and apex.
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The relict dace (Relictus solitarius) is a cyprinid fish of the Great Basin of western North America. It is the sole member of its genus. Relict dace coloration is variable, but generally dusky overall, with olive and brassy shades dorsally. An obvious speckling pattern with patches ranging from brown to green, and yellowish narrow stripes appear on the back and belly.
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The dorsal surface is mottled brownish-grey with darker speckling. The patagium (winglike membrane) is dark brown near the edge and paler brown near the body, with six transverse pale-edged bands. The ventral surface is yellow or pinkish, with the gular pouch a creamy yellow anteriorly, and bluish-grey and black posteriorly. The underside of the patagium is yellowish-brown.
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Euphilotes enoptes smithi is a small butterfly with a wingspan no greater than 2.5 centimeters. Males manifest dorsal wing color of a bright lustrous blue, while females exhibit brown dorsal coloration. Both sexes have with orange-red band markings on the hind dorsal wings. Ventral wing coloration for both males and females is a whitish gray, punctuated with black speckling.
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The ventral surfaces are dirty off-white, mixed with very light grey patches, and sometimes with brown speckling concentrated laterally. The hidden surfaces of the thighs and tarsus are egg- yolk yellow to orange. The iris is yellowish white with thin brown reticulations. The female is similar to the males but is more robust and has relatively narrower head and more greenish coloration.
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The inflorescence bears opening flowers and hanging, pointed flower buds. As the bud opens the sepals all separate instead of remaining fused as those of many other Clarkia species do. The triangular to semicircular petals are about 2 centimeters long and lavender to bright reddish-purple, sometimes with dark speckling. There are 8 stamens with anthers all alike, and a protruding stigma.
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The eyelashes are thought to aid in camouflage, breaking up the snake's outline among the foliage where it hides. the eyelash viper occurs in a wide range of colors, including red, yellow, brown, green, even pink, as well as various combinations thereof. It often has black or brown speckling on the base color. No external features distinguish the two sexes.
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Galapagos Species Checklist of the Charles Darwin Foundation The habitat consists of coastal mangrove swamps and shorelines.New North American records of Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Pyralidae) from southern Florida The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are dark brown to brownish gray with indistinct lines, as well as dense speckling. The hindwing have a similar color and lack prominent markings.
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The anterior half of the wings is pinkish-orange and the posterior half is coffee-brown.Final Instar and Metamorphosis of Hypopyra pudens The larvae feed on Paraserianthes species, including Paraserianthes falcataria (= Falcataria moluccana).The Moths of Borneo They are smoky-grey, with closely spaced, fine, dark speckling over the entire body. The head is pigmented with symmetrical shades of cream and brown.
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This is a small species, measuring just 25 mm in total length. The tips of the fingers and toes are slightly swollen. The colouration of the dorsal surface is light brown with slightly dark speckling on the back of the head, with the remainder of the back being dark brown with irregular dark markings. The arms and legs are strongly banded.
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There are 11 spines in the dorsal fin and 16 soft rays while the anal fin contains 3 spines and 8 soft rays. The caudal fin is truncate or marginally rounded. This species is reddish brown in colour with a white dot on each scale leading to the appearance of fine, white speckling. There is a dark reddish brown stripe on the maxilla.
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The coloration is grayish brown dorsally and black laterally, with a pinkish line that extends from the groin to above the eye and onto the canthus rostralis separating them. The dorsum has a few, scattered blotches of paler brown, a few scattered white dots middorsally, and sparse pale blue speckling dorsolaterally. The ventral surfaces are black with some very pale blue spots.
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Paratype of subspecies pilyachuch from Kamchatka, in the Natural History Museum, London Small blue males are dark brown with a scattering of bright blue scales that speckle their wings. Females lack this blue speckling. Both males and females exhibit the characteristic silver underside with black spots. The male has a bluish tint at the base of its wings similar to the upper side.
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Colonanthes is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Colonanthes plectanopa, which is found in Brazil (Amazonas) and Peru.funet.fi The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are brownish suffused or irrorated (speckled) grey, with minute whitish speckling and two white strigulae from the costa near the base and at one-fifth converging to a median basal tuft.
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It has a white, cream or pale yellow ground, which is covered in dark veining or speckling in violet, mauve, purple or brown shades. The larger standards are paler, normally white and less veined. The falls, have darker veining and a dark signal patch and brown or purple beard. It is commonly known as Iris elegantissima, especially in Europe and Russia.
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Tortyra chalcobathra is a moth of the family Choreutidae. It is known from Brazil. The wingspan is 11–13 mm. The forewings are blackish with a shining brassy wedge-shaped streak from the base of the costa above the dorsum to one/fifth, edged above with black on the costal half, beyond this a band of whitish speckling extending to the fascia.
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There is dark band running from behind the eye to the insertion of the forelimb. The upper surface of the upper forelimb is orange- brown. The ventrum is pale with some speckling. The call comprises a pulsed chirp of 4–6 pulses and is followed by 2–6 evenly spaced double clicks, often ending with one or two single pulse clicks.
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Its colour varies in different shades of brown from light grey through pale mustard to dark brown. It is pale in colour along the belly, sometimes with slight speckling or blotches, with a dark brown throat band. It has 17 to 25 midbody dorsal scale rows, 176 to 219 ventrals, and 51 to 69 subcaudals, with an entire anal scale across the vent.
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Grand skinks are relatively large compared to other New Zealand skinks, capable of growing to lengths up to 11 inches (29 cm). They are marked with yellow-green speckling, which provides excellent camouflage in their rocky habitat of lichen-covered rocks and schist outcrops. Like most skinks, grand skinks are omnivores and feed on a wide variety of insects and fleshy fruits.
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The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are grey finely and closely iriorated white and with some darker grey suffusion towards the costa before and beyond the bend. The stigmata are blackish grey surrounded with whitish suffusion, the plical beneath the first discal. There are slight indistinct marginal dots of blackish-grey speckling around the posterior part of the costa and termen.
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This lizard grows to a snout-to-vent length of about with a tail twice as long as its body. The head and body are somewhat flattened and the markings rather variable. The basal colour is dark olive-brown and there are usually two series of pale dorso-lateral spots which may merge into each other forming lines. The areas between these stripes have further pale speckling.
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Female Terpsiphone mutata nesting. The small eye ring is not typical of the Madagascar sub- species and this may be one of the Comoro Islands sub-species. The female typically lays a clutch of three eggs measuring in length and in width. These range in color from pinkish-white to salmon-pink, with dense brown or lavender speckling or blotching on the wide end of the egg.
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Eadmuna guianensis is a species of moth of the family Mimallonidae. It is found in Guyana and French Guiana, where it is found in Amazon rainforests. The length of the forewings is 18–20 mm. The forewings are brown and silvery grey, the brown colour is especially predominant distally from the thorax, with less extensive speckling due to a relative lack of dark, petiolate scales.
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This species is shy and has a more slender snout and have slightly smaller teeth than the dangerous saltwater crocodile. The body colour is light brown with darker bands on the body and tail—these tend to be broken up near the neck. Some individuals possess distinct bands or speckling on the snout. Body scales are relatively large, with wide, close-knit armoured plates on the back.
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The forewings are blackish with white irroration (speckling), which forms indistinct oblique bands, the first from the costa near the base to the dorsum near the middle, the second from the costa before the middle to the dorsum beyond the middle, the third from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus. There is a terminal series of white dots. The hindwings are blackish.
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Anolis lividus, the Plymouth anole, is a species of anole lizard that is endemic to the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It is widespread and abundant in many areas. Individuals vary widely in appearance. Males can be grass-green or yellow-green, and may be plain or with lighter blue speckling towards the anterior, and a rust-red tint over the head and limbs.
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The speckled earless lizard is an overall gray- brown in color, with black and white speckling all along its back, with a solid gray-brown underside. It has distinct black and white bars immediately preceding the hind legs. Males tend to have a blue coloration to the white bars, whereas females do not. Like all species of earless lizards, it has no external ear openings.
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The wingspan is . There are two generations per year in western Europe, with Adults on wing in July, and again from September to early-June, hibernating through the winter. The imago of the brindled plume is similar in appearance to the beautiful plume (Amblyptilia acanthadactyla) but is darker appearing greyish-brown (cf. warm reddish-brown colour of the beautiful plume) and has distinct white speckling.
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The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are greyish fuscous, with profuse hoary speckling and a dark fuscous elongate spot on the costa before the middle, which is preceded and followed by some hoary whitish scaling, of which there is also a slight patch at the commencement of the costal cilia. The hindwings are brownish grey. The larvae feed on Rhizophora mangel.Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
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It has a white line bordering its upper flanks, and its wing coverts are light coloured, contrasting with its darker flight feathers. Its plumage is patterned by the pale fringes of the feathers. Juveniles differ mostly in their lack of black speckling on the breast and belly and by their greyish legs. Adults have a distinctive 'concertina' pattern of folds in the feathers on their necks.
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There is a yellowish-green or grey-green ring of bare skin round the eye, and the rest of the bare facial skin is bright red. The legs are greyish-blue with a strong spur. The female is slightly shorter and has no spur. Her colour is reddish- brown, each feather having fine black speckling and a pale streak by the shaft, giving her a mottled look.
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The shrub typically grows to a height of and a width of . It blooms from July to September and produces plentiful large pendulous pink-white flowers that hang from short branched stems on old wood. The terete dark green leaves are long by about wide ending with a sharp point. Smooth grey obovate fruit, sometimes with darker grey speckling are about long and wide.
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The forewings are pale ochreous, with some faint light brownish speckling. The stigmata are blackish, the first discal small, the second larger and transverse, the plical reduced to two or three specks beneath the first discal, a small cloudy dark fuscous subdorsal spot is found beneath the second discal and there are some minute dark fuscous terminal specks. The hindwings are whitish ochreous.Exotic Microlepidoptera.
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The forewings are brownish gray with black speckling and lines. The hindwings are uniformly brownish gray except for a dark thin terminal line. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from June to October in California. The larvae feed on the foliage of various coniferous trees, including Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, Pseudotsuga, Thuja plicata, Abies amabilis, Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii.
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The adult Tamaulipas pygmy owl has a length of between with a relatively long tail of between . Their average weight is , the male generally being lighter than the female. The male has a brownish facial disc flecked with white with short white eyebrows. The upper parts are olive-brown, with a greyer crown and fine white speckling at the front and sides of the crown.
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The forewings are light reddish ochreous suffusedly mixed ferruginous and with the basal half of the costa suffused with ferruginous with a blue gloss. The base of the dorsum is dark grey. The stigmata is blackish, the plical and first discal rather large, the plical rather posterior, these two connected by irregular grey suffusion, the second discal smaller. There is some blackish speckling towards the termen.
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Ailigandí area, Panama A captive adult black hawk-eagle. The black hawk-eagle is 58–70 cm (23–28 in) long and weighs about 900–1,300 grams (2-2.9 lbs). It has black plumage with varying patterns on its wings and body, and white speckling in places. It has barred wings, slightly elliptical in shape, and a long, narrow tail which is rarely fanned.
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The Mosor rock lizard is a flattened lizard with a long head and slender tail. It grows to a snout-to-vent length of about with a tail approximately twice as long. The dorsal surface is somewhat glossy and is brown, greyish-brown or olive-brown with darker mottling and speckling. The flanks are usually darker in colour and the spotting may be restricted to the mid-dorsal area.
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The male brown-eared woodpecker has a dark brown fore-crown and red hind-crown, while the female lacks the red colour. In other respects, the sexes are similar. There is a buff supercilium and a large patch of rufous-brown behind the eye and over the ear coverts. The mantle back and wings are olive-brown, and the tail is deep brown with white speckling on the outer feathers.
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The upper wings are brown and slightly barred and the under wings are yellowish. The tail coverts are white with slight brown barring, the upper tail is blackish with fine barring at the sides and the under tail has buff edges. Underparts are cream or buff with some darker speckling, the breast sometimes being tinged with orange. The beak is black, the iris yellowish and the legs grey, pink or buff.
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Eadmuna pulverula is a species of moth of the family Mimallonidae. It is found in Brazil, where it has only been recorded from São Paulo. The length of the forewings is about 24 mm. The forewings are similar to those of the females of Eadmuna paloa, but with a slightly more pronounced apex and overall darker coloration and heavier speckling due to a higher number of petiolate scales.
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Butterworths, London, pp. 147–157. If there is insufficient calcium available in the local soil, the egg shell may be thin, especially in a circle around the broad end. Protoporphyrin speckling compensates for this, and increases inversely to the amount of calcium in the soil. For the same reason, later eggs in a clutch are more spotted than early ones as the female's store of calcium is depleted.
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She lays 2–4 eggs, which are white with a wreath of pale brown spots at the large end and a sparse speckling of pale brown spots elsewhere. The eggs average in size. The female alone incubates for 16 days, sitting within the domed nest with her tail sticking out of the opening and her head turned so she can see out. She is restless while incubating, regularly changing her position.
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The forewings are ocherous-brown with dark brown patches, with white irroration (speckling) forming a trace of transverse wavy lines and dotting the brown costa. The fringes are brownish gray with whitish bases containing brown and white scales. The hindwings and fringes are gray- brown.Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America The larvae feed on Calendula species, as well as Senecio aronicoides and Senecio jacobaea.
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Steinitz' goby grows to a maximum length of . It has protuberant eyes and a long narrow body. Its colouring is white with about five broad, transverse, reddish-brown bands with some fine pale yellow lines between them. The dorsal fin has a speckling of small orange spots and has seven spines and twelve soft rays while the anal fin has a single spine and also twelve soft rays.
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The species is variable in color and pattern. The dorsal surface on males is reddish or gray-tan, with black speckling and lighter marbling; or it is dull green with slight markings and a dark blue head. The male's ventral surface is dull gray, and it has blue-gray spots on its upper thighs and sides of its tail. Females have a gray dorsal surface and a bluish underside.
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Clepsis anderslaneyii is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Chiricahua, Huachuca and Santa Rita mountains in south-eastern Arizona, United States, where it has been recorded at altitudes ranging from 1,490 to 1,770 meters. The length of the forewings is 8.5–9 mm for males and 8–9.5 mm for females. The ground color of the forewings is straw yellow with dark brown speckling.
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The wingspan ranges from 45 mm to 62 mm (median 55 mm). It is relatively stout- bodied, with forewings relatively narrow-elongate. The wings are white, "peppered" with black, and with more-or-less distinct cross lines, also black. The black speckling varies in amount, in some examples it is almost absent, whilst in others it is so dense that the wings appear to be black sprinkled with white.
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White is permitted on the chest and feet. Lighter and darker shades of gray are permitted throughout the coat, even to the point of speckling. The FCI standard further requires a dark nose, eyelids, and pads of the feet; a scissors bite; and a moderately sloped stop of about 45°. Per the FCI standard, the tail is docked at 50% of natural length, and the dewclaws are removed.
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M. productus California, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Its length is about 3 ft (90 cm) and it can live up to 20 years. Its coloration is metallic silver-gray with black speckling and pure silvery white on the belly. The North Pacific hake has two dorsal fins and a truncated caudal fin. Its pectoral fin tips usually reach to or beyond the origin of its anal fin.
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Bates's nightjar is a large, dark nightjar. At rest looks large headed and long tailed. The upperparts and wing coverts are dark brown marked with black and buff streaks and spots, with a normally indistinct buff collar on the hindneck which may be more obvious on some individuals. The underparts are blackish brown with buff speckling on the breast, becoming barred on the belly, the throat is whitish.
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It is primarily slate grey, rather than truly black as its name would imply. The upperparts of an adult black tinamou are a uniform grey, while its midsection and greater wing coverts are sometimes edged with brown. Its lower breasts and flanks are a sooty brown color, as well as its belly. It has a rufescent vent, which may or may not have black speckling, depending on the subspecies.
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The black speckling on the back and flanks is consistent however. The spiny dorsal fin is moderate in height and is partially separated by a notch from the high, rounded soft dorsal fin. Soft dorsal, anal and caudal (tail) fins are all large and rounded, and are light grey to dark grey or black with distinct white edges. The large, rounded pectoral fins are usually similar in colour to flanks.
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Afro Moths The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are bronzy greyish fuscous with a straight, transverse, pale whitish ochreous fascia before the middle, followed by a dorsal spot before the tornus and a rather larger costal spot of the same colour before the commencement of the cilia. There is some faint whitish ochreous speckling on the wing-surface. The hindwings are dark grey.Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.
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The rest of the upper parts are brownis, barred withreddish-brown and grey. The underparts have a scalloped appearance as the white feathers are edged with black. The lower belly and under-tail coverts are cinnamon. The female is similar in appearance but the hind neck and mantle are black with paler speckling, the throat is buff and the breast and belly are white barred with reddish-brown and black.
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Male and female spot-winged wood quails are similar in appearance but the female is slightly smaller. The bird has a reddish-brown crown with a loose crest, speckled with buff. The supercilium (stripe above the eye) and the chest-band are reddish-cinnamon. The upper parts are greyish-brown, with dark vermiculations and speckling, with the individual feathers on neck, mantle, back and scapulars having white streaks beside the shaft.
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In spring, a stem up to long bears a row of 15-25 bell-shaped, bright pink and green flowers, which are unusually inflated. It is often confused with Gasteria armstrongii or Gasteria carinata var. verrucosa, which both have a similar squat, retuse, distichous growth form. However G. baylissiana can be distinguished by its dense white "misty" speckling of tiny tubercles, and by its smaller, distinctively-shaped flowers.
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The forewings are dark yellow with dark reddish speckling up to the postmedial line, purplish-grey between the PM and ST lines, and dark brown beyond the ST line except for a pale apical patch. The reniform spot is orbicular, and there are dark yellow claviform spots. The hindwings are greyish, becoming darker towards the outer margin. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from August to October.
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The upperparts of the body are black apart from the turquoise shoulders, rump and edgings of the wings and tail. The flanks are blue and the central belly is white. Females have a greenish tinge to the head, sometimes with black speckling on the crown, and more extensively white underparts. Immatures are duller, with a green head, dark grey upperparts, off-white underparts, and little blue in the plumage.
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It has a relatively long snout and ears, while the tail is comparatively short, measuring 20 cm in length. Fur color varies individually, seasonally and geographically, though the typical coloration is yellowish to silvery grey, with slightly reddish limbs and black speckling on the tail and shoulders. The throat, abdomen and facial markings are usually white, and the eyes are amber-colored. Females bear two to four pairs of teats.
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The Trewhiddle style is recognized for its intricately carved decoration, including animal, plant, interlace and geometric patterns; niello inlays, densely decorated surfaces, and dome-headed rivets. A defining feature is the dividing of the main area of decoration into small panels, typically separated by beaded borders. Panels usually contain a single motif, typically a crouching, backward-looking or biting animal. Speckling of individual motifs was a technique frequently used to create surface texture or movement.
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Iris haynei, the Gilboa iris, is a plant species in the genus Iris, subgenus Iris and section Oncocyclus. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from the shrublands and mountainsides of Palestine and Israel. It has smooth, linear or lanceolate, greyish-green leaves. Long slender stem and in Spring, (between March and April) large, fragrant flowers in shades of deep purple, violet, purple, brownish purple or dusky lilac veining or speckling over a pale ground.
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Its lower mantle and back are white with more black speckling than the crown, and it has dark black-brown upper wings with white flecks on its covert. Its tail is white with a black-brown tip, as are its underwings. There is a black band behind the leading edge of its wings between the carpal joint and the tip. As they age, its head, back, rump, tail, and scapular region whiten.
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They are generally nocturnal and can be attracted by light at night. They are on the wing in late spring to early summer, about May to July or starting somewhat earlier, depending on location. Their forewings are predominantly blackish, with irregular white mottling and speckling which results in a rough black zig-zag stripe running along the length of the wings. The forewing border is a hairy fringe colored with alternating black and white.
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It is most serious on the flowerhead types (cauliflower, broccoli), less serious on the leaf brassicas (cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and least serious on the root brassicas (turnips, swedes) and oil brassicas (rape). The pathogen persists as oospores in the soil. Attacks are most important in Brassica seedbeds, with infection appearing as yellow speckling of the upper surface of seedling leaves, and white mildew on the lower surface. Severely affected seedlings are stunted or killed.
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Brachynotus sexdentatus is a small crab, reaching a maximum carapace width of , but typically less than . The front of the carapace has two lobes and three lateral teeth on each side, each ending in a sharp point. The whole animal is olive green, with speckling in black, with the legs slightly paler or greyer. The claws are of similar side on either side of the body, but are much larger in males than in females.
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Among standard measurements in adults, the wing chord is , the tail is , culmen is and the tarsus is . The plumage is predominantly brown in colour and often shows a high degree of speckling. A broad brown chest-band is present in most plumages and a square dark carpal patch contrasting with the white under-wing is an easily identifiable characteristic in light morph individuals. A wide variety of plumage patterns are exhibited in light vs.
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The male has bronze-green upperparts, glittering green underparts, a dusky lower belly and a bronzed or purple-black tail depending on subspecies. The female has bronze- green upperparts, grey underparts, including the lower belly, green speckling on the flanks and grey corners to the dusky bronze tail. Both sexes have pink or red feet. Young birds resemble the adult, but have buff feather tips to the head, neck and rump feathers.
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The Cascade Caverns salamander is translucent, with a faint net-shaped pattern that is brown in color, often with white speckling. The species is rarely seen, so the amount of variation in their coloration is unknown. They are neotenic, meaning they retain characteristics into adulthood that are usually associated with juvenile salamanders, such as external gills. They have stout bodies, with short legs, and reduced eyes set under a layer of skin.
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This species is up to 16.5 centimeters long, including its long tail. It is gray with brown and black washes, white speckling along the sides, and usually a brownish dorsal stripe bordered with black dots.Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps gavilanensis). CaliforniaHerps. This species and several other native California salamanders were described as new species in 2001 when the Batrachoseps pacificus species complex was split according to the results of a phylogenetic analysis.
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This small worm grows to a length of about . The two palps are widely separated and the eversible pharynx bears a large tooth near the rim but behind the pharyngeal opening. On the dorsal surface, long and short cirri alternate. The antennae and cirri have dark spots, but the general body colour is variable, being some shade of brown, grey or pink, sometimes with orange or pink speckling near the anterior end.
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They are bi-coloured, and are pale lilac, creamy, cream-yellow, light tan, or white background. They are then covered in purple brown, or purple, or purple-pink, veining, spots or speckling. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate and very recurved, and they measure long and wide.
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The colour and thickness of the veining or speckling can vary. In the centre of the petal is a signal patch, which is orbicular (round), purple-brown, or almost black, and 1.2 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. Also in the middle of the falls, a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is sparse and has purple brown, or almost black hairs. The standards are sub-orbicular and they measure long and wide.
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Texas Banded Gecko (Coleonyx brevis), Webb County Texas, USA (10 June 2016). Texas banded geckos are small, terrestrial lizards, rarely exceeding in length. They have alternating bands of yellow and brown or pink colored banding down their body, generally with black accenting on the bands, and sometimes with varying degrees of black speckling. Hatchlings and juveniles display a banded pattern; the banded pattern gets a more mottled appearance as the gecko becomes an adult.
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The Montserrat galliwasp or Montiserrat galliwasp (Diploglossus montisserrati) is a species of lizard in the Anguidae family endemic to Montserrat in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It is the only anguid species in the region. It can reach 180 mm snout-to-vent, with well-developed limbs. It is brown all over, with white speckling on its flanks and legs, subtle dark lines around its neck, and white scales speckled with brown on its upper mouth.
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Adults of C. pricei usually do not exceed 50–60 cm (about 20–24 in) in total length (including tail). The maximum total length recorded is 66 cm (26 in). The color pattern consists of a gray, bluish-gray, brownish-gray, or medium- to reddish-brown ground color, usually with a fine brown speckling. This is overlaid with a series of dorsal blotches that tend to be divided down the median line to form 39-64 pairs.
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Ennypia moths have light brownish-gray wings with variably dense dark speckling and prominent, black antemedial and postmedial lines. The postmedial line is angled diagonally from the inner margin toward the apex and has a highly irregular toothed and scalloped outline, meeting the costa in the apical area. It is also irregular and fainter than on the forewing, with the outer margin being slightly angular. The antemedial line is scalloped or zigzagged hindwing and slightly paler.
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The forewings are whitish grey, shaded with greyish fuscous, especially along the costal third. This is interrupted on the costa by a pale median space and some pale speckling before the apex. Some minute blackish dots are scattered along the line of the fold, with one on the disc before the middle and a few black scales beneath the apex at the base of the yellowish-grey cilia. The hindwings are brownish grey.Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
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Bathyraja panthera, the leopard skate, is a species of cartilaginous fish in the family Arhynchobatidae. It was first described as a new species in 2011, having been discovered in the Aleutian Islands at depths between . It is a moderately large species with a short snout and wide mouth. The dorsal surface is pale greenish-brown, with speckling, round black spots and yellow blotches, giving it its specific name panthera from its resemblance to a leopard skin.
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Some specimens have red or orange speckling. The belly is typically a solid gray or white in color. The several naturally occurring color variations include albinos, high orange or hypomelanistic, and a few specimens which display leucism, which have become regularly captive-bred and are popular in the pet trade. The Texas rat snake becomes very black with white spots in some specimens caught in Sabine County, Texas, which reflects the northern intergrade of the black rat snake.
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The black-bellied slender salamander is about 3.1 to 4.3 cm long. It has a worm-like body, a small head and small limbs, and a long cylindrical tail, often twice the length of its body. The black-bellied slender salamander can have a black, tan, reddish, brown or beige dorsum often with a contrasting broad mid-dorsal stripe of similar colors. It has a purplish or black venter with fine light speckling over the entire surface.
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The forewings are rather dark bronzy fuscous with an obscure cloudy whitish transverse line at two-fifths, the ground colour rather darker before it. There is a slight cloudy whitish transverse mark on the costa at two-fifths, and a pre-tornal dot opposite and sometimes some faint whitish speckling towards the termen. There is a black marginal line around the apical part of the costa and termen, thicker on the costa. The hindwings are grey.
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Adult birds are about and the sexes are similar in this species. As compared to the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), it is much darker in colouration, especially the crown and nape which are nearly black. The barring on the upper parts is blacker and the markings on the lores and ear coverts are darker brown. The throat and breast are brownish-buff rather than white and the dark speckling on the belly extends further up the flanks and breast.
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The painted swellshark (Cephaloscyllium pictum) is a little-known species of catshark, belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae, found in eastern Indonesia. This species reaches a maximum known length of , and has a thick body with a short, broad and flattened head. It is dark gray with a variegated pattern of irregular darker and lighter blotches above, and lighter below with gray blotches and speckling on the snout. Like other swellsharks, it can inflate itself as a defensive measure.
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The forewings are dull whitish covered by general dark fuscous irroration (speckling) and some inconspicuous ocherous longitudinal streaks. There is an ocherous streak within the costa from the base to nearly halfway. There is also an ocherous streak in the plication to the plical stigma at one-third. The stigmata are usually distinct as blackish dots, with the first discal slightly beyond the plical and the second discal at about two-thirds, both more or less associated with ocherous.
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The top of the head is cream with many small, dark brown spots forming blotches. The sides of the head have a chocolate-brown stripe from below the eye stretching to the side, connecting at the back of the head. The body is flecked with brown, the top yellowish-cream in color with 7–8 irregular brown crossbars and the sides light pinkish tan without patterning. The limbs are also pinkish tan with irregular brown flecking and cream speckling.
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There is a moderately broad slightly curved shining brassy fascia at two-fifths, edged on each side with black, followed by a fascia of whitish speckling narrow on the dorsum, gradually expanded to above the middle, where it extends to three-fifths, then rapidly narrowed to the costa. A coppery-purple posterior patch, its edge convex, runs from the costa just before the apex to the dorsum beyond the middle. The hindwings are dark fuscous.Exotic Microlep.
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The bar-breasted firefinch with a red head and breast and white barring or speckling on the breast. The forehead, lores and supercilium are deep red fading on the ear coverts, chin, throat and neck sides to less intensely red colour. The crown and most of the upperparts are greyish briwn and rather uniform contrasting with deep red lower rump and upper tail coverts. Tail is darker brown than back with variable amounts of red near the base.
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Some forms of laser rot could appear as black spots that looked like mold or burned plastic which cause the disc to skip and the movie to exhibit excessive speckling noise. But, for the most part, rotted discs could actually appear perfectly fine to the naked eye. Later optical standards have also been known to suffer similar problems, including a notorious batch of defective CDs manufactured by Philips-DuPont Optical at their Blackburn, Lancashire facility in England during the late 1980s/early 1990s.
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Carinotetraodon imitator, commonly known as dwarf Malabar puffer, is a species of pufferfish found in rivers in the Western Ghats of India. It resembles the closely related C. travancoricus. It can be distinguished from its congener as the males have brighter yellow coloration than males of C. travancoricus as well as lacking the iridescent blue lines behind the eye. Females are less brightly colored and possess a fine speckling of black spots in place of the larger black blotches of C. travancoricus.
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The limbs are slender, the digits having adhesive toepads; there is extensive webbing between fingers III and IV, and between the toes. The dorsal surface and flanks of this frog are a uniform green with fine white speckling; the ventral surface is white, the hind part being transparent, enabling the yellow intestines to be seen. The upper lip is white, the tongue is green and the iris is white, with dark reticulations, and a horizontal pupil. The bones are dark green.
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The forewings are ashy grey, with sparsely scattered greyish fuscous speckling, the usual spots are not more noticeable than other specks. Near the base of the dorsum is an outwardly oblique greyish fuscous shade, rising to a little above the fold. A slight clouding of the same colour appears at the commencement of the costal and dorsal cilia respectively, the anteterminal portion of the wing beyond it being slightly paler than the general hue. The hindwings are greyish brown.Biol. centr.-amer. Lep.
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The forewings are greyish-ochreous, or light brownish slightly speckled ochreous-whitish and with the costal edge ochreous-whitish except towards the extremities. The stigmata are cloudy and fuscous, the plical obliquely before the first discal, sometimes an additional spot midway between the plical and the base. There are faint ochreous-whitish dots on the costa at three-fourths and the tornus opposite, and sometimes a hardly traceable curved line of ochreous-whitish speckling joining these. The hindwings are grey.Exot. Microlep.
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Ambystoma macrodactylum, the long-toed salamander, is a salamander that occupies widespread regions, including the coastal regions of the pacific northwest. Long-toed salamanders live in a variety of habitats including sagebrush communities, coniferous forest, and in alpine meadows. Eggs and larvae have been spotted in watery areas including lakes, ponds, wetlands, springs, and puddles. An adult salamander can grow between 5 centimeters and 8.1 centimeters and are typically black with multicolored dorsal stripes and white speckling on their sides.
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The Taliabu grasshopper warbler (Locustella portenta) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. It is endemic to the island regency of Taliabu in Indonesia. It has a very small, restricted distribution in a few square kilometers of a mountainous region of the island. It can be distinguished from other members of the genus Locustella by its unique vocalizations, as well as the fine dusty speckling on its body which increases towards the breast and lower throat.
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Immatures resemble females overall. Typical calls are a metallic iehk or plihk (Howell and Webb) or piik resembling other Pheucticus grosbeaks' calls, and a soft whoi or hu-oi (Howell and Webb 1995) or hoee (Sibley 2000) often given in flight. The song is a variable, rich-toned warble resembling that of the black-headed grosbeak, but shorter. As is typical of the genus, it lays two to five pale bluish to greenish eggs with heavy brown and gray speckling.
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Ranoidea wilcoxii shows extreme sexual dimorphism, meaning the males and females have different appearances. Females can reach a length of up to 70 mm and males 45 mm. Individuals are a smooth brown in colour with speckling and blotching in the groin. A thick black stripe extends from the nostril to the base of the forearm, encompassing the eye and tympanum The lower underside and groin can be from a light yellow to olive green, tending more often towards a beige brown.
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The eggs average and are non-glossy, olive-brown, with some darker speckling at the broader end. Four to six eggs are laid in late March and April and incubated by the female for about twenty-six days. After hatching, the chicks spend about two weeks in the nest before leaving to swim amongst the reeds. The female rears them without help from the male, regurgitating food into the nest from her crop, the young seizing her bill and pulling it down.
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Chylismia brevipes is a species of wildflower native to the American desert southwest known by the common names yellow cups, Mojave suncup, and golden suncup. This is a hairy annual with tall stems often reaching over half a meter in height and surrounded by basal leaves which may be simple or composed of several leaflets. It produces an inflorescence which has one to several blooms in it. The flowers are bright yellow, often with reddish speckling at the base of each petal.
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Pseudotelphusa basifasciella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.Pseudotelphusa at funetmothphotographersgroup The wingspan is 10–15 mm. The forewings are white with two black spots along the costa and smaller spots and speckling near the outer margin, as well as a thick black oblique band in the basal area.
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The scaled piculet grows to a length of . The plumage is mottled, the scaled effect coming about because the feathers have pale-coloured bands and darker tips. The crown and nape are black, the male having some red speckling at the front of the crown; the female lacks this red colouration, but otherwise, the sexes are similar. The mantle and back are olive or tan and are scaled, the flight feathers and tail feathers are brown, the two central tail feathers having white tips.
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Most tinamou eggs are solid colored, without spots or speckling; however, the eggs of Tinamotis species may exhibit small white speckles. The benefit of laying brightly colored eggs is unknown, but is not detrimental as most tinamou predators hunt at night. Eggs are relatively large compared to the mass of the female, though even the largest birds produce eggs very similar in size to the smallest of species. Their shapes are either spherical or elliptical; the two ends are similar in shape, and difficult to distinguish.
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The rufous-backed stipplethroat is about long. The male has mainly brown upper parts with a reddish-brown back and rump, and black wing coverts with white speckling and two white bars. The male's throat is black spotted with white, and the sides of the head, the breast and belly are grey. The female is similar to the male but the wing coverts are tipped with buff and the sides of the face and the throat are ochre, the throat sometimes being tinged with red.
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The forewings are whitish ochreous, with some slight fuscous speckling on the dorsal area and very few minute black specks on the costa, as well as two small dark fuscous marks or dots beyond the middle. The stigmata is small, dark fuscous or blackish, with the plical rather obliquely before the first discal, and sometimes with an additional dot midway between the first discal and the base, as well as a marginal series of blackish dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are grey.Exotic Microlepidoptera.
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The ventral scales number 158-179 and 164-185 in males and females, respectively, while the subcaudal scales are divided and number 39-56 or 34-51 in males or females. The color pattern consists of a brown or dark-brown ground color overlaid with a series of 16-27 dark brown or black dorsolateral blotches. The blotches are edged in white and may be trapezoidal, triangular, subtriangular, or headphone-shaped and oppose each other middorsally. The belly is white or yellow with gray speckling.
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The morphology of some traits is subject to clinal variation, gradually changing from one side of the island to the other, or from sea level to the hilltops. The ground color ranges from pale tan or yellow to deep green or brown. It also has patterned markings that range from light-colored speckling to complex marbled patterns, and some populations also have large black-ringed "eye" spots on their flanks. The Dominican anole spends much of the time in trees but mainly hunts on the ground.
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Juveniles are brownish and may have some white barring or speckling towards the belly and vent, and can be mistaken for the white-bellied drongo. First-year birds have white tips to the feathers of the belly, while second-years have these white-tipped feathers restricted to the vent. They are aggressive and fearless birds, and although only in length, they will attack much larger species that enter their nesting territory, including crows and birds of prey. This behaviour led to their former name of king crow.
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The large flowers, are in diameter, they have a white, cream, or pale yellow ground, has dark, veining or speckling in violet, mauve, purple or brown shades. Compared to Iris iberica which can have blue veining and marking. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The darker veined, scallop shell shaped, falls are deflexed (bending over to an almost flat position), and up to long.
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Upperside: similar to that of the male but the median white transverse band across both wings broader, extended on the forewing up to vein 7 and with no inner edging of blue or iridescent light blue irroration (speckling); the black at the bases of the wings and on the margins not so intense in shade, more of a brownish black. Underside: ground colour and markings very similar, the basal two oblique bands on the forewing generally farther from one another than in the male.
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Eggs are laid primarily on Bignoniaceae, Fabaceae, Oleaceae, Pedaliaceae, Solanaceae and Verbenaceae. In India the larvae sometimes occur in such numbers as to cause serious damage to crops such as Sesamum indicum. Mature larvae can be 120 mm long, and come in green, yellow or brown color forms. Larvae closely resemble those of A. atropos except that the dark blue dorsal speckling is more pronounced on the anterior half of each abdominal segment, and the tail horn is less curved and lacks a reflexed tip.
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The forewings are creamy white, with raised tufts touched with yellowish. The costal edge has a brown streak with an elongate dark brown subcostal mark at three-fifths. Along the posterior third of the costa, this streak is interrupted three times by white raised tufts. There is fine sprinkling of shades of brown, arranged more or less in longitudinal rows, parallel to the veins below the costa and there is some finer, blackish speckling below the posterior part of the costa and in the apex.
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Similar to males, they have iridescent green or gold speckling, though the speckles are concentrated on the opercles or cleithrum (bone that extends from pectoral fin up to the cranium above the gills). Females' eyes are also dark, and their upper and lower jaws range in color from olive-black to pale yellow. Their abdomens are pale yellowish-green, and their bellies are tinted pink. They also have olive-black lateral stripes and dorsal saddles; the color between the dorsal saddles is amber to pale yellow.
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Illustration of male, d'Orbigny 1847 The species grows to a length of and is rather variable in appearance. The male has a red fore-crown while the female has a brown or black crown. The upper parts of head and body are olive brown with white speckling, especially on the mantle. The wings are brown above, with pale edgings to the secondaries and tertiaries, and the tail is brown, the two central feathers being white, and there being a white patch on the outer edge near the tip.
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The parotoid gland of the green tree frog is much smaller, and it also lacks the yellow speckling on the back and the yellow markings on the hand, groin, and thigh. It can be distinguished from the white-lipped tree frog(giant tree frog N. infrafrenatus) by the distinct white stripe that species has along the edge of the lower jaw and extending to the shoulder, which is not present in the green tree frog. Tadpole The tadpoles' appearance changes throughout their development. When newly hatched, they are long and when fully developed, .
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The forewings are stone-whitish, dusted with brownish cinereous and with minute black speckling around the outer third of the costa, continuing around the apex and along the dorsum to within one-third of the base. There are also three small, elongate, black dots, one in the fold beyond the middle, another slightly above and beyond it on the disc, and a third in the same line with the latter, about the end of the cell. The middle spot is equidistant between the other two. The hindwings are shining, pale bluish grey.Ent. mon. Mag.
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Idiothele mira is a small species, mature females reaching 4.5 inches in diagonal leg span and is very reclusive, rarely leaving its burrow, usually only for mating purposes. This species is easily distinguished by its bright blue "toes" or tarsi and metatarsi, paired with a black and golden carapace, gold radiating within black in a "starburst" pattern, the abdomen is also golden with black speckling. Males have a smaller body size when compared to the leg span, and reach 3.5 inches on average. The eggsac of Idiothele mira commonly contains 25-45 spiderlings.
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Acanthemblemaria maria is a slender, elongated fish with a maximum total length of but a more normal length is . The long, continuous dorsal fin has 29 to 40 rays, the flexible spines usually being more numerous than the soft rays. This fish is very variable in colouring; it has whitish vertical stripes or patches on a usually brown background, and an irregular speckling of tiny spots. The large eyes are surrounded by yellowish-green orbital rings and the cheeks often bear a spot of blue or brown above a white band.
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The stigmata are blackish grey, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is some faint grey speckling indicating an oblique shade about two-fifths and an irregular slightly curved grey shade from the middle of the costa behind the second discal stigma to the dorsum at four-fifths. A curved series of dark grey dots is found from the costa at three-fourths to the dorsum before the tornus, strongly indented towards the costa. There is a marginal series of blackish dots around the apex and termen.
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Oligosoma maccanni can be identified due to their physical features these include but are not limited to an oval shaped body (in cross section), a pointed head, a long tail which tapers downwards, and comparatively long limbs and toes. McCann's skinks have shiny scales on their skin, they also have two pale and key dorsolateral lines. The O. maccanni 's dorsal stripe does not extend to the end of the tail. The only presence of speckling on the body is under the chin, the O. maccanni 's also have a well-defined pale dorsolateral strip.
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The dermal denticles are widely spaced, highly variable in size, and have 1-3 ridges and cusps. This shark is a dark gray above, with faint blackish saddles mostly broken up into irregular blotches, and a smattering of lighter spots. There are also blackish bars below the eyes, over the gills and pelvic fins, and on the upper caudal fin lobe before the ventral notch. The underside is pale with many gray blotches, and black and white speckling on the snout; the demarcation between the dorsal and ventral coloration is irregular but abrupt.
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Afro Moths The wingspan is about 9 mm for males and 8 mm for females. The forewings are pale brownish ochreous, with scattered blackish speckling. This appears in a very faintly indicated oblique transverse band, leaving the costa at about one- fourth and crossing the fold between two minute spots of raised blackish scales, the first below the fold, slightly anterior to that on the cell. Another pair of minute raised spots is situated one at the end of the cell, the other a little beyond it, above the outer extremity of the fold.
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When extended, this slug can attain a length of 12 cm (5 in.). It is highly variable in coloration and positive identification depends on dissection and inspection of the genitalia. It is usually very pale in color, ranging from mottle pale yellow, cream to white. It may have irregular black spotting or speckling all over the dorsal surface that may coalesce into two poorly defined bands running down either side of the body; in the juveniles, these two bands may be clearer and better defined as grey bands, especially anteriorly.
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Forewing grey, dark speckled:costa black- spotted: claviform stigma small: orbicular round, pale, sometimes whitish: reniform large, the lower lobe dark grey, all three finely black-edged; veins towards termen finely black; hindwing dull whitish, with abroad border and the veins fuscous. — saucia Esp. is the form showing a tendency to an ochreous tint; - in ab. farkasii Tr. the forewing is more variegated, light and dark, the larger pale orbicular stigma and a pale patch obliquely below it forming a prominent streak; — indistincta Tutt has a uniform dull appearance, without speckling; — albifusa Walk.
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Juvenile martial eagles are conspicuously distinct in plumage with a pearly gray colour above with considerable white edging, as well as a speckled grey effect on crown and hind neck. The entire underside is conspicuously white. The wing coverts of juveniles are mottled grey-brown and white, with patterns of bars on primaries and tail that are similar to adult but lighter and greyer. In the 4th or 5th years, a very gradual increase to brownish feather speckling is noted but the back and crown remain a fairly pale grey.
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The coloration is gray to brownish gray on the back which is lighter below, and notably darker on the "lips", around the eye, and near the dorsal fin. There is sometimes a dark blaze between the head and dorsal fin as well. One female in the Southern Hemisphere was bluish black with a white area between the dorsal fin and tail as well as a light gray jaw and throat, as well as black speckling. One individual from the Canary Islands had an area of white from snout to blowhole.
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There is a black dot beneath the costa at one-third and a round black dot below the fold at one-third, one above the fold somewhat before it. The stigmata are black, raised, accompanied by whitish scales, the plical less marked, rather before the first discal, similar dots near the dorsum beyond the middle and towards the tornus. There is a whitish dot on the tornus and an indistinct blackish dash in the disc posteriorly, as well as some blackish speckling towards the apex. The hindwings are dark grey.Exot. Microlep.
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Iris lortetii X I. Iberica: 'Iberian Gem', 'Mustapha Kemal', and 'Shah-Shah' (Soft cream white standards; cream falls, stippled and dotted dark henna, black signal). I. iberica X Iris sari: 'Iblup'. I. iberica and Iris paradoxa: 'Koenigii'. I. iberica X Onco- hybrid: 'Indigent Arab' (Silver grey ground with light brown veining, falls heavily veined brown, small dark brown signal), and 'Ord Mountain' (Grey standards, heavily veined and dotted dark red brown; near black falls in center with grey ground speckling at hafts and on edge, it is a collected natural hybrid of Iris lycotis, X Iris 'Vulcan's Forge').
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From above, adult has a rufous cowl, a blackish mantle and a slightly brownish black back and wings with white-tipped shoulders and tail coverts. Below the underwing is paler looking relative to body with flecking or speckling only on the hand and thinly barred flight feathers. In flight, the juvenile ornate hawk-eagle is mainly dark brown above with whitish scaled blackish-brown shoulders. Below, the juvenile's wings have scattered spots on the axillaries and great wing-coverts, blackish tips to the white based outer primaries and thin barring on the other flight feathers, at times matching the patterning of the tail.
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Elegant crested tinamou – one of the crested species The plumage of the family is cryptic, as is usual with ground birds, with typical colors ranging through dark brown, rufous, buff, yellow and grey. Plumage does not usually differ between sexes, but in a few species females are brighter. The forest dwellers tend to be darker and more uniform, whereas the steppe species are paler with more barring, speckling, or streaking. Tinamous have well-developed powder down feathers; these grow continuously and disintegrate at the tips into a powder that is spread through the rest of the feathers by preening.
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The dorsal edge is fuscous from near the base to the termen and the plical and second discal stigmata are small and dark fuscous, the first discal indicated by faint fuscous suffusion. There is a faintly indicated streak of slight fuscous suffusion from the middle of the costa to the dorsum at two-thirds, angulated beyond the second discal stigma. There is a gently curved line of fuscous scales from the costa at three- fourths to the dorsum towards the tornus and some slight fuscous speckling towards the termen. The hindwings are pale grey, the apical area suffused whitish yellowish.
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The adult female differs from the male in being a richer colour and in having a broad, reddish-brown collar round the back of the neck. The spots and vermiculations on the back and tail are not so dark, the beak and legs are brighter yellow, and the irises are creamy white or yellowish-brown. In non-breeding plumage, the rufous collar of the female becomes mixed with grey and the other plumage also become greyer. The juvenile is similar to the male in appearance but has dingier plumage, a less vivid breast colour and more fine speckling.
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Stenella frontalis, La Gomera Near South Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands A juvenile swimming in the blue water The coloring of the Atlantic spotted dolphin varies enormously as it grows, and is usually classified into age- dependent phases known as two-tone, speckled, mottled, and fused. Calves are a fairly uniform gray-white, with one or no spots. When they are weaned, speckling occurs, typically between 3 and 4 years and lasting for an average of 5 years. A juvenile is considered mottled when it develops merging gray and white spots on the dorsal surface and black spots on the ventral surface.
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Sternarchella schotti is a species of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae. This species is endemic to Brazil where it is found in the Amazon River basin, and is sometimes kept in aquaria. The species grows to approximately 20 cm in length, and has a pale pink color in life with brown speckling along the dorsal surface of the head and body. As with many other ghost knifefishes (Apteronotidae) this species is aggressive with other electric fish species (Gymnotiformes), but is often compatible in captivity with species in other orders, such as catfish and angelfish.
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The North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting, or jack salmon (Merluccius productus) is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from northern Vancouver Island to the northern part of the Gulf of California. It is a silver-gray fish with black speckling, growing to a length of . It is a migratory offshore fish and undergoes a daily vertical migration from the surface to the seabed at depths down to about . It is the object of an important commercial fishery off the West Coast of the United States, and annual quotas are used to prevent overfishing.
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Megalomus hirtus has a wingspan of the front wings barely exceeding . Usually it reaches a wingspan of . In these brown lacewings the radial sector of the fore wings shows at least five ribs, preferably six or seven. Moreover the front and hind wings are rather dark, with well contrasted brown speckling and cross bands. Aspöck H., Aspöck U. & Hölzel H. (1980) - Die Neuropteres Europas – Goecke & Evers, Krefeld De Sancti Petri Fabrica per il riconoscimento dei Neuropterida adulti (specie) e stadi preimmaginali (quando va bene, generi, se non famiglie) dell’area geografica ± europea The head and the body are glossy, black or brown black.
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Empty nest boxes, and sites used by house sparrows or other hole nesting birds, such as tits, pied flycatchers or common redstarts, are rarely used for the autumn display. left The untidy nest is composed of hay, grass, wool or other material and lined with feathers, which improve the thermal insulation. A complete nest consists of three layers; base, lining and dome. The typical clutch is five or six eggs (rarely more than four in Malaysia), white to pale grey and heavily marked with spots, small blotches, or speckling; they are in size and weigh , of which 7% is shell.
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Like other members of its family, it has a long anal fin, a minute caudal fin, no pelvic or dorsal fins, and an electroreceptive dorsal appendage that originates about halfway along the back. There are 155-168 anal fin rays, 14-15 pectoral fin rays, and 16-17 caudal fin rays. The scales are large and diamond-shaped, with 6-8 rows above the lateral line but not reaching the upper surface of the head and body. Virtually unpigmented aside from tiny chromatophores speckling the bottom of the head and branchiostegal membranes, P. amazonensis is uniformly white-pink with translucent fins.
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Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview The wingspan is . The forewings are pale ochreous- yellowish with the markings consisting of shining white edged lines of dark fuscous irroration (speckling). There is a streak from the base just beneath the costa to the costa at two-thirds, with a narrower streak rising out of this along the upper margin of cell to just beneath the apex (the area between this and the preceding wholly irrorated dark fuscous), another along the lower margin of the cell and transverse vein, another along the fold throughout, and irregular lines along veins two to five, seven and eight.
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Although elms in Australia exist far away from their natural habitat and associated pest and disease problems, a few problematic insect species have managed to infiltrate Australia's strict quarantine defences . The elm leaf beetle was first discovered on the Mornington Peninsula in 1989 and had spread to the City of Melbourne by 1991. The beetles have caused significant damage to elm species since that time, although the City of Melbourne keeps them in check with a regular spraying regime. Another less serious insect pest is the elm tree leafhopper, which causes speckling of leaves resulting in a silvery appearance.
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The forewings are grey, with the extreme tips of the scales whitish, forming a minute speckling, some slight brownish tinge in the disc. There is a small blackish-grey elongate spot on the middle of the costa, a smaller and more indistinct spot preceding it and two following it. There is a linear black dot in the middle of the base and a narrow black streak on the fold from near the base to one-third. A thicker black longitudinal streak is pointed at both ends, occupying the median fifth of the disc, a similar streak between this and the apex, and a small apical mark.
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The forewings are dark greenish olivaceous, with minute paler speckling and some blackish patches and suffusion. A small black spot at the extreme base of the costa is followed by a second costal spot before one-third. An elongate costal spot precedes the middle, and there is a larger one beyond the middle, pointing downward to an obscure spot at the end of the cell, and forming, at its outer edge, the margin of a slender pale olivaceous line crossing the wing from the costal to the dorsal cilia. This line is angulated inward on its upper half and outward at its middle, then descending straight to the dorsum.
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A speckling of workhouse hospitals and the London Smallpox Hospital in St Pancras (moved to Highgate Hill in 1848-50), were all that existed to treat smallpox victims until the latter part of the century. This changed with the creation of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1867, which embarked on the building of five planned smallpox and fever hospitals in Stockwell, Deptford, Hampstead, Fulham and Homerton to serve the different regions of London. Fearful residents succeeded in blocking the building of the Hampstead hospital, and residents in Fulham obtained an injunction preventing all but local cases of smallpox from being treated in their hospital.
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It can point forward, backwards or form a straight line; this variability can help to identify individual whales. A pair of light gray blowhole streaks extend posteriorly behind the blowholes, often curving to the left – the left more strongly than the right. Occasionally fine ear stripes may be present behind the opening of the auditory meatus, while dark or light speckling or streaking can occur along the flanks as well as what are called tiger stripes – "parallel, dark, usually vertical stripes". Like Bryde's whale (and occasionally blue and fin whales), dwarf minkes can exhibit auxiliary ridges on either side of the central ridge of the rostrum.
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Kang in central Botswana Brown snake eagle hydrating after a drink in Yankari National Park, Bauchi, Nigeria Their plumage about the body is entirely a fairly dark brown, with some claims of a purplish sheen in certain light conditions. The body colour extends to the wings but for their contrasting unmarked flight feathers which are whitish-grey. The shortish tail, which is most easily seen in flight, is at all ages barred brown and grayish cream. The juvenile is similar in appearance and colour but tends to have very sparse white feather bases, with birds from south of the range apparently showing heavier white speckling, especially on the abdomen and head.
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The equipment was on a commercial scale but devoted to studio work. The pottery was called Mungeribar: "red clay" in the local Aboriginal (Woiwurrung) language. :… we finally arrived at a stoneware body mixing a local fireclay with commercial red clay, china clay and ball clay … it works well and reduces to a red-brown with lighter speckling … Most of the glazes we use are, as a result, in the darker earthy colours but speckled light greys and ochres are also possible. The Mungeribar Pottery's mark is a Macdonald's em impressed; Sprague's personal mark is a capital I over a horizontal separator and the Morse code for S—three dots.
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Iris hermona, the Golan iris, is a plant species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris, and in the section Oncocyclus. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from the pastures and meadows of the Golan Heights in Israel and Syria. It has linear, upright leaves, tall slender stem holding a bi-coloured flower, having a pale lilac, cream-yellow, light tan, or white background, which is then covered in purple brown, or purple, or purple-pink veining, spots or speckling. It has a round purple-brown or almost black signal patch, and a sparse purple brown or almost black beard.
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The forewings are ochreous fulvous or ochreous brown with a white streak, attenuated basally, along the costa, the anterior margin of the forewing, from the base to near the middle, then leaving the costa and narrowed to beyond the middle. There is a very oblique white striga (pointed, rigid hairlike scale or bristle) from the costa at two-thirds, near the termen acutely angulated to the tornus, edged posteriorly with dark grey speckling which is strongest in the disc, and preceded in the angle by a fine black dash. There are two or sometimes three inwards-oblique white marks on the costa posteriorly, followed by two black marks before the apex. The hindwings are grey.
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Juvenile males may average a slightly darker brown plumage with less speckling on their upper body than like-age females, their head and neck plumes may also appear shorter, which can accentuate the slighter, more angular skull possessed by males. In disposition, the male juveniles are said to be more highly strung and higher voiced than their female counterparts. The head gradually grows paler over several years. The whitish mottling may increase on the upperparts, belly and especially on the underwing area later into their 3rd year (considered the first subadult plumage) and subadult birds can appear fairly blotched with white but much individual variation in coloring is known at this age.
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The discovery that gray can be linked to a single animal provides an example of how humans have "cherry-picked" attractive mutations in domestic animals. Gray is controlled by a single dominant allele of a gene that regulates specific kinds of stem cells. Homozygous grays turn white faster, are more likely to develop melanomas, and are less prone to develop the "fleabitten" speckling than heterozygous grays. Researchers suggest the pigmented speckles of the “fleabitten” gray, as well as more intense reddish- brown colored areas called “blood” markings, may be caused by a loss or inactivation of the gray allele in some of the somatic cells as that would explain why the speckles are more common on heterozygous grays than homozygotes.
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The starred wood quail is between about long, males being slightly larger than females. The bill is blackish, the irises brown and the legs grey, and the long feathers on the back of the head form a pronounced crest, reddish-brown in the male and brownish-black in the female. Other than this, the sexes are very similar in appearance; the front of the crown is dark brown and the rest of the head, neck, throat and mantle is grey. The general colour of the upper parts is olive-brown, marked with darker vermiculations, paler on the rump and darker on the wings and scapulars, with large black markings on the flight feathers and pale speckling on the wing coverts.
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Harlan's hawks usually have faint streaks on the sides of their head and about their chest with a little gray mottling or speckling on the scapulars. Apart from a variably white-streaked throat, their underparts are usually mostly black with variable white streaking and barring on the thighs or crissum. There are up to four main variations from the typical one above: extreme dark morph (where even the throat is black and no pale streaking is present), dark morph (with barring still present from the tarsus to the underside), rare pale morph (with few blackish blobs on the belly and generally a whiter head) and perhaps even rarer types where the base color is grayish. Unlike most red- tailed hawks, generally immatures are similar enough than adults that it can be difficult to distinguish them.
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Parents do not recognize their own eggs or newly hatched chicks, but are able to distinguish their chicks by the time they are two days-old, shortly before they begin to wander from the nest. The precocial chicks, which are very pale with black speckling, are brooded and fed by both parents, but may gather in crèches when older. The young terns fledge after 38 to 40 days, but remain dependent on the parents after leaving the colony until they are about four months old.Cooper (2006) 760–764 A nesting colony in Tubbataha Reef, Philippines Egg, Collection Museum Wiesbaden In South Africa, this species has adapted to breeding on the roofs of building, sometimes with Hartlaub's gull, which also shares the more typical nesting sites of the nominate race.
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The smooth sided flukes, usually about wide, are dark gray dorsally and clean white (occasionally light gray to gray) ventrally with a thin, dusky margin. Some small, dark gray speckling may be present on the body. Antarctic minkes lack the bright white, transverse flipper band of the common minke and the white shoulder blaze and bright white flipper patch (occupying the proximal two-thirds of the flipper) of the dwarf minke. Instead, their narrow, pointed flippers, about one-sixth to one-eighth of the total body length, are normally either a plain light gray with an almost white leading edge and a darker gray trailing edge or two-toned, with a thin light gray or dark band separating the darker gray of the proximal third of the flipper from the lighter gray of the distal two-thirds.
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The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are ochreous-white, with slight irregular very fine greyish speckling or suffusion, the costal edge clear and with a dark fuscous longitudinal line from the base of the costa to one-fifth. There are three trapezoidal grey dorsal blotches reaching nearly half across the wing, the first towards the base, the second median, the third pre-tornal, much expanded upwards. Three very oblique dark fuscous streaks are found from just beneath the costal edge, the first suffused, irregular, from one-fifth to the anterior angle of the second blotch, the second similar, from before the middle to the anterior angle of the third blotch, the third well-marked, linear, slightly curved, from two-thirds to the posterior angle of the third blotch, making an abrupt angle with the posterior side of the blotch.
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The forewings are brownish cinereous, with a steely gloss throughout and some ferruginous scaling, especially on the outer half. At the extreme base of the costa is a small dark fuscous spot, narrowly connected with an oblique narrow broken fascia of the same colour, extending outwards to the dorsum, which it reaches at about one-fourth the wing-length. Beyond this is a minute black spot on the outer half of the fold, the remainder of the wing to the apex being speckled with black scales, some preceded by whitish and on the costa before the apex is an elongate shining whitish spot, followed by black speckling around the base of the terminal cilia which partake of the wing-colour, but tending to pale grey at the tornus, with a dark shade running around their extreme tips. The hindwings are shining pale steel-grey.Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.
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The forewings are yellow-ochreous at the base, with a narrow line of black scabs along the costa, another on the upper edge of the cell, below which the cell itself is pale whitish ochreous. From a little beyond, the remainder of the wing-surface is thickly suffused and speckled with black, the black scales being concentrated in an elongated spot on the middle of the wing, followed by a smaller one at the end of the cell, with some indication of a third in the fold below the first. The ground-colour underlying the black speckling is pale whitish ochreous, as on the upper half of the cell from the base, and is fairly conspicuous on the small patch at the commencement of the costal cilia and in another opposite to it on the dorsum. A line of black scales runs through the whitish ochreous cilia which are also dusted with black at their base.
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