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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Oxyptilini » Geina » Himmelman's Plume Moth - Hodges#6092 (Geina tenuidactylus)

Species Geina tenuidactylus - Himmelman's Plume Moth - Hodges#6092

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Food · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Pterophoroidea (Plume Moths)
Family Pterophoridae (Plume Moths)
Subfamily Pterophorinae (Five-lobed Plume Moths)
Tribe Oxyptilini
Genus Geina
Species tenuidactylus (Himmelman's Plume Moth - Hodges#6092)
Hodges Number
6092
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pterophorus tenuidactylus
Size
Wingspan circa 17 mm (guide photo with measurements)
Identification
See identification key for Oxyptilini.

Genitalia:
♀
♂
Food
Rubus and Fragaria (Moths of North Carolina)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Moths of North Carolina
Contributed by Mike Boone on 19 June, 2005 - 4:16pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Tony-2, Ted Kropiewnicki, marcie oconnor, treichard, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 19 November, 2023 - 10:08am

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