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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)

Subfamily Pterophorinae - Five-lobed Plume Moths

Platyptiliini · Marasmarchini · Oidaematophorini · Oxyptilini · Pterophorini
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Tribe Platyptiliini
Paraplatyptilia auriga - Paraplatyptilia Plume Moth - Platyptilia carduidactylus Platyptilia carduidactylus - Artichoke Plume 6109 - Platyptilia carduidactylus Plume Moth - Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla What am I? - Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla T-shaped Moth - Plume Moth? - Paraplatyptilia Stenoptilodes taprobanes - male Platyptilia carduidactylus

Tribe Marasmarchini
Moth - Exelastis pumilio - male - female Exelastis pumilio moths - Exelastis pumilio - male - female Exelastis montischristi - Exelastis Exelastis montischristi - Exelastis Exelastis pumilio - Exelastis pumilio Exelastis pumilo - Exelastis pumilio Emmelina monodactyla - Exelastis pumilio

Tribe Oidaematophorini
Plume moth - Stenoptilodes sp. ? - Emmelina monodactyla Adaina ambrosiae Emmelina monodactyla Pselnophorus belfragei Plume Moth - Hellinsia Adaina - Adaina Groundsel Plume Moth - Hellinsia balanotes - female Pterophoridae - Oidaematophorus

Tribe Oxyptilini
Plume Moth 2 - Geina friends or enemies? - Geina Plume moth - Geina plume moth, maybe Geina buscki? - Geina Plume Moth - Geina Geina Sphenarches ontario Geina buscki or tenuidactylus - Geina

Tribe Pterophorini


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