Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Phormoestes

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Unassigned Ditrysia)
Family Millieriidae
Genus Phormoestes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Phormoestes Heppner, 1982 (1)
Numbers
One species in our area (2).
Works Cited
1.Millieriinae: A New Subfamily of Choreutidae, with New Taxa from Chile and the United States (Lepidoptera: Sesioidea)
Heppner, John B. 1982. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 370: 1-27.
2.Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. 2016. ResearchGate.net.