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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) » Oidaematophorini » Oidaematophorus

Genus Oidaematophorus

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Plume moth - but which one? - Oidaematophorus mathewianus Oidaematophorus eupatorii Eupatorium Plume Moth - Hodges#6168 (Oidaematophorus eupatorii) - Oidaematophorus eupatorii Arizona Moth - Oidaematophorus phaceliae Oidaematophorus grisescens Oidaematophorus eupatorii Oidaematophorus mathewianus - female Plume Moth -- Oidaematophorus - Oidaematophorus
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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 Oidaematophorini
Genus Oidaematophorus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Oidaematophorus Wallengren, 1862
Explanation of Names
Apparently from Greek oidema (οιδημα)- "swelling" + phoros (φορος)- "that which bears, carries, is born, is carried". Probably a reference to some characteristic anatomical feature.
Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 12 August, 2006 - 1:26pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, treichard
Last updated 16 September, 2023 - 2:44pm

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