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Family Pterophoridae - Plume Moths

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Pterophoridae of California and Oregon.

By Lord Walsingham
Self published: pp. 1-66, Pl.1-3, 1880

Walsingham, Lord. 1880. Pterophoridae of California and Oregon. 1-66, Pl.1-3

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 16 November, 2017 - 4:40pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Oxyptilini » Oxyptilus

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.

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

Description of a new species of Exelastis (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from the Neotropics

By Deborah L. Matthews and Bernard Landry
Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 2008

PDF download at the journal web site and at plumemoth.com (direct PDF link).

Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 26 September, 2023 - 7:37pm

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Leptodeuterocopus neales: A new record for Florida and the United States. (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae: Deuterocopinae).

By Deborah L. Matthews, Cees Gielis
Florida Entomologist 87(4): 621-622., 2004

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Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 March, 2013 - 7:58pm

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Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico

By Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.)
Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, 2023

• Pohl, G. R. and S. R. Nanz (eds.), 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California, xiv + 580 pp. (order).

• Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023) checklist in spreadsheet (Excel) format (download).

Editors - When citing this work, please be sure to include the (eds.) after Pohl & Nanz to avoid confusion over authorship. If you have a copy of the book, it would be best to cite with the chapter author, i.e.

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 26 November, 2023 - 6:05am

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Descriptions of Some New Moths from Southern California

By Harrison G. Dyar
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 10: 52–60, 1908

Available online

Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 29 April, 2023 - 10:08pm

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Hadenine Notes and Descriptions (Phalaenidae, Leipidoptera)

By McDunnough, J.
The Canadian Entomologist, Volume 75, Issue 3, March, pp. 43-57, 1943

Available online from Cambridge University Press at this link.

Contributed by Steve Morris on 30 January, 2023 - 11:34am

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