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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) » Platyptiliini » Stenoptilodes » Sri Lanka Plume Moth - Hodges#6121.1 (Stenoptilodes taprobanes)

Species Stenoptilodes taprobanes - Sri Lanka Plume Moth - Hodges#6121.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Internet References · Works Cited

Stenoptilodes taprobanes - Hodges #6121.1 (Stenoptilodes taprobanes) - Stenoptilodes taprobanes

Stenoptilodes taprobanes - Hodges#6121.1 - Stenoptilodes taprobanes

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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 taprobanes (Sri Lanka Plume Moth - Hodges#6121.1)

Hodges Number

6121.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Amblyptilia taprobanes Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875

Numbers

(1)

Identification

See the identification key for Platyptiliini.

See the species accounts in Matthews et al. (2019b)(2), Gielis (2006)(3), and Lange (1939)(4).

Range

Southeastern Unites States. (1), (5)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Most records of adults are from February to August; October to December. (1), (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (1)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

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

5.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 March, 2013 - 7:12pm
Additional contributions by treichard
Last updated 28 July, 2024 - 1:21pm

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