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

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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