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Genus Trichoptilus


Geina sheppardi, a new species of grape-feeding Platyptiliinae...
By Bernard Landry
The Canadian Entomologist, 1989
GEINA SHEPPARDI, A NEW SPECIES OF GRAPE-FEEDING PLATYPTILIINAE (LEPIDOPTERA: PTEROPHORIDAE) FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES ON RELATED SPECIES
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 121 , Issue 9 , September 1989 , pp. 763 - 770
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent121763-9

Article at The Canadian Entomologist.

Pterophoridae recorded on Block Island (Rhode Island, USA), 2018-2019
By Aaron Hunt and Deborah L. Matthews
News of The Lepidopterists' Society, 2020
Full text and direct PDF download at the News of the Lepidopterists' Society web site.

Two new California plume moths
By W. Harry Lange, Jr.
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1939
Full text available at Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Pterophoridae of America, north of Mexico
By William Barnes & A. W. Lindsey
The Review Press, 1921
Full text, downloadable PDF at Biodiversity Heritage Library.

A synopsis of the plume-moths of the subfamily Platyptiliinae (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of eastern Canada
By Bernard Landry
Full text PDF from McGill University Library.

A synopsis of the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
By B. Landry & C. Gielis
Zoologische Verhandelingen, 1992
Full text available at Research Gate and at Zoologische Verhandelingen

Notes and descriptions of Pterophoridae and Orneodidae
By E. Meyrick
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1907
Full text at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Observations of plume moths on North Andros Island, Bahamas, and notes on new records and species...
By Matthews et al.
Insecta Mundi, 2012
Full text available at the Center for Systematic Entomology web site.