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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) » Oidaematophorini » Oidaematophorus » Western Plume Moth - Hodges#6161 (Oidaematophorus occidentalis)

Species Oidaematophorus occidentalis - Western Plume Moth - Hodges#6161

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Season · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Pterophorid of some kind - Oidaematophorus occidentalis Pterophorid of some kind - Oidaematophorus occidentalis
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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 Oidaematophorini
Genus Oidaematophorus
Species occidentalis (Western Plume Moth - Hodges#6161)
Hodges Number
6161
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Oidaematophorus occidentalis Walsingham, 1880
Size
Fore wing length 12-13 mm. (1)
Season
Adults usually fly June to September.(1)
Remarks
Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, Moths of Western North America, Pl. 12.32m; p. 120. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 April, 2018 - 7:19pm
Additional contributions by treichard
Last updated 19 August, 2023 - 7:37pm

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