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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) » Platyptiliini » Platyptilia » Pussytoes Plume Moth - Hodges#6106 (Platyptilia tesseradactyla)

Species Platyptilia tesseradactyla - Pussytoes Plume Moth - Hodges#6106

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Platyptilia tesseradactyla - Hodges #6106 - Platyptilia tesseradactyla Platyptilia carduidactylus - Platyptilia tesseradactyla
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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 Platyptiliini
Genus Platyptilia
Species tesseradactyla (Pussytoes Plume Moth - Hodges#6106)
Hodges Number
6106
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Platyptilia tesseradactyla (Linnaeus, 1761)
Phalaena alucita tesseradactyla Linnaeus, 1761 (1)
Print References
Linnaeus, C. 1761. Fauna svecica, (1454): 370. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Carl Linnaeus
Works Cited
1.Fauna svecica, sistens animalia Sueciae regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes.
Carl Linnaeus . 1761. Stockholmiae, Sumtu & Literis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Editio Altera Auctior. 1-578.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 December, 2013 - 3:45pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, treichard
Last updated 16 August, 2023 - 6:57pm

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