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Genus Platyptilia

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Pterophoroidea
Family Pterophoridae (Plume Moths)
Subfamily Pterophorinae
Tribe Platyptiliini
Genus Platyptilia
Numbers
9 species in North America listed at All-Leps
Remarks
the former Platyptilia pallidactyla is now treated as Gillmeria pallidactyla by All-Leps, Fauna Europaea, and Pterophoridae of North America

Spelling ?
In Hodges Check List the genus is spelled Platyptilia.
Gillmeria is a synonym (? junior)

 
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