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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea)

Superfamily Pterophoroidea - Plume Moths

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea)

Notes on Pterophoridae with descriptions of new species

By J. McDunnough
The Canadian Entomologist, 1923

Full text available at Biodiversity Heritage Library and from The Canadian Entomologist.

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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 24 July, 2024 - 6:19pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Oxyptilini » Buckleria » Sundew Plume Moth - Hodges#6098 (Buckleria parvulus)

The Sundew Plume Moth, Buckleria parvulus (Barnes & Lindsey) (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

By Deborah Matthews
Southern Lepidopterists' News, 2009

Full text and direct PDF download from the Southern Lepidopterists' Society.

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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 23 July, 2024 - 4:17pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Oxyptilini » Sphenarches » Fire-flag Plume Moth - Hodges#6090.1 (Sphenarches anisodactylus)

Life history and immature stages of a plume moth Sphenarches anisodactylus...

By Cassani et al.
Florida Entomologist, 1990

Full text available at The Florida Entomologist.

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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 24 July, 2024 - 11:22am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Oxyptilini » Megalorhipida (Megalorhipida) » Spiderling Plume Moth - Hodges#6104 (Megalorhipida leucodactylus)

The Spiderling Plume Moth Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius) (Pterophoridae) in Florida and Texas

By Deborah L. Matthews
Southern Lepidopterists' News, 2008

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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 23 July, 2024 - 3:55pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Platyptiliini » Platyptilia » Comstock's Plume Moth - Hodges#6111 (Platyptilia comstocki)

A new plume moth from Arizona

By W. Harry Lange
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1939

Full text at Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 25 July, 2024 - 7:53am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Platyptiliini » Anstenoptilia » Sage Plume Moth - Hodges#6117 (Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla)

Extralimital records of the Sage Plume Moth, Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

By Deborah Matthews & Reed Watkins
Southern Lepidopterists' News, 2011

Full text at Southern Lepidopterists' Society.

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Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 25 July, 2024 - 7:25am

On the systematics and origin of the generic group Oxyptilus Zeller (Lep. Alucitidae)

By Stanislaw Adamczewski
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 1(5): 303-387; Pl.9-20., 1951

Adamczewski, S., 1951. On the systematics and origin of the generic group Oxyptilus Zeller (Lep. Alucitidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 1(5): 303-387; Pl.9-20.

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Contributed by Randy Hardy on 23 December, 2017 - 9:37am

A new species of Oxyptilus Zeller from the southwestern United States (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae)

By Deborah Matthews
ZooKeys 698: 75-93, 2017

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 23 September, 2017 - 8:31am

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