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Species Stenoptilodes brevipennis - Sweet Broom Plume Moth - Hodges#6122

6122 - Stenoptilodes brevipennis - female

Stenoptilodes - Stenoptilodes brevipennis

Stenoptilodes - Stenoptilodes brevipennis - male

Stenoptilodes brevipennis - Stenoptilodes brevipennis

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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 Platyptiliini

Genus Stenoptilodes

Species brevipennis (Sweet Broom Plume Moth - Hodges#6122)

Hodges Number

6122

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Stenoptilodes brevipennis (Zeller, 1874)

Platyptilia brevipennia Zeller, 1874

Platyptilia crenulata Barnes & McDunnough, 1913

Identification

See the identification key for Platyptiliini.

See the species accounts in Matthews et al. (2019a)(1), Matthews et al. (2019b)(2), Matthews et al. (2012)(3), Gielis (2006)(4), Landry & Gielis (1992)(5), Lange (1939)(6) as Platyptilia crenulata, Barnes & Lindsey (1921)(7) as Platyptilia crenulata.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Plume moths recorded from the United States naval base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Deborah Matthews et al. 2019. News of the Lepidopterists' Society.

2.	Additions to the plume moth fauna of The Bahamas (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) with description of four new species Deborah L. Matthews et al. 2019. Insecta Mundi.

3.	Observations of plume moths on North Andros Island, Bahamas, and notes on new records and species... Matthews et al. 2012. Insecta Mundi.

4.	Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I Cees Gielis. 2006. Zoologische Mededelingen.

5.	A synopsis of the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador B. Landry & C. Gielis. 1992. Zoologische Verhandelingen.

6.	Two new California plume moths W. Harry Lange, Jr. 1939. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.

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

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 13 May, 2010 - 12:07am
Additional contributions by treichard
Last updated 25 July, 2024 - 7:21am

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