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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 » Paraplatyptilia » Atlantic Canada Plume Moth - Hodges#6125.1 (Paraplatyptilia atlantica)

Species Paraplatyptilia atlantica - Atlantic Canada Plume Moth - Hodges#6125.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Internet References · Works Cited
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 Paraplatyptilia
Species atlantica (Atlantic Canada Plume Moth - Hodges#6125.1)
Hodges Number
6125.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Paraplatyptilia atlantica Landry & Gielis, 2008
Identification
See the identification key for Platyptiliini.
See the species accounts in Landry & Gielis (2008)(1) and Landry (1987)(2) as Stenoptilodes sp. A.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Works Cited
1.Key to the Paraplatyptilia species of eastern Canada with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)
Bernard Landry & Cees Gielis. 2008. The Canadian Entomologist.
2.A synopsis of the plume-moths of the subfamily Platyptiliinae (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of eastern Canada
Bernard Landry. 1987.
Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 19 August, 2023 - 8:14am
Last updated 25 July, 2024 - 8:18am

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