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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) » Oxyptilini » Geina » Himmelman's Plume Moth - Hodges#6092 (Geina tenuidactylus)

Species Geina tenuidactylus - Himmelman's Plume Moth - Hodges#6092

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Food · Internet References · Works Cited

Is this Himmelman's Plume Moth - Geina tenuidactylus

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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 Oxyptilini

Genus Geina

Species tenuidactylus (Himmelman's Plume Moth - Hodges#6092)

Hodges Number

6092

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pterophorus tenuidactylus

Size

Wingspan circa 17 mm (guide photo with measurements)

Identification

See the identification key for Oxyptilini.

See the species accounts in Landry (1987)(1), Hunt & Matthews (2020)(2), McDunnough (1933)(3) as Pterophorus cygnus (discussion of synonym), and Barnes & Lindsey (1921)(4) as Pterophorus cygnus (redescribed due to a misidentification).

See the identification section of the Geina tenuidactylus or G. buscki page.

Geina tenuidactylus and G. buscki adults cannot be reliably identified on sight or in photo records. Males can be determined by brushing scales off the valvae, females by dissection. See Landry, 1987(1) and Hunt & Matthews, 2020(2).

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Food

Rubus and Fragaria (Moths of North Carolina)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of North Carolina

Works Cited

1.	A synopsis of the plume-moths of the subfamily Platyptiliinae (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of eastern Canada Bernard Landry. 1987.

2.	Pterophoridae recorded on Block Island (Rhode Island, USA), 2018-2019 Aaron Hunt and Deborah L. Matthews. 2020. News of The Lepidopterists' Society.

3.	Notes on North American Lepidoptera with descriptions of new species J. McDunnough. 1933. The Canadian Entomologist.

4.	The Pterophoridae of America, north of Mexico William Barnes & A. W. Lindsey. 1921. The Review Press.

Contributed by Mike Boone on 19 June, 2005 - 4:16pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Tony-2, Ted Kropiewnicki, marcie oconnor, treichard, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 July, 2024 - 11:38am

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