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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Pterophoroidea » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Pterophorinae

Subfamily Pterophorinae

Classification · Numbers
Plume moth - Dejongia lobidactylus Mystery Moth2a - Emmelina Plume Moth - Hellinsia Emmelina monodactyla unknown plume moth - Amblyptilia Plume Moth_1413 - Gillmeria pallidactyla Plume Moth - Geina Plume Moth - Hellinsia balanotes
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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
Numbers
one of two subfamilies in this family in North America listed at All-Leps; the other subfamily (Agdistinae) is represented in North America by a single species, Agdistis americana
146 species in 25 genera in two tribes in North America listed at All-Leps
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 March, 2006 - 6:07pm
Last updated 9 March, 2007 - 6:55pm

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