Cosmoclostis parauxileuca | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Cosmoclostis |
Species: | C. parauxileuca |
Binomial name | |
Cosmoclostis parauxileuca S.L. Hao , H.H. Li & C.S. Wu, 2004 | |
Cosmoclostis parauxileuca is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Guangdong, China.
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblage called "microlepidoptera".
Stenoptilia pterodactyla, the brown plume is a moth of the family Pterophoroidea. It is found in Europe, North America, Anatolia, Iran and China. It was first described by the Swedish taxonomist, Carl Linnaeus in 1761.
Cosmoclostis aglaodesma is a species of moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Australia from the Atherton Tableland in Queensland, south to near Taree in New South Wales.
Cosmoclostis hemiadelpha is a species of moth of the family Pterophoridae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1947. It is found in Australia in Queensland and in New Guinea.
Cosmoclostis pesseuta is a species of moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka but has also been recorded from New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Recently, it has also been collected in Queensland, Australia.
Platyptilia isodactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in China, Europe and was introduced to Australia and New Zealand for biological control. It was first described by the German entomologists, Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852.
Nippoptilia cinctipedalis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Australia, Korea, Japan (Kyushu), China, Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and Vietnam.
Stenodacma wahlbergi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1851. It is known from Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sri Lanka, India, Central, East and South Africa, St. Helena, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Rodrigues. It has recently been recorded from Vietnam. Records for Australia were based on synonymisation with Stenodacma pyrrhodes.
Adaina microdactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1813. Also known as the hemp-agrimony plume, it is found in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Cosmoclostis leucomochla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher from Sri Lanka. It was later also discovered in Myanmar and on Leyte in the Philippines.
Cosmoclostis is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. Species are known from Australia, China, South and South East Asia, the Arabic Peninsula and Africa.
Bipunctiphorus dimorpha is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. The species was first described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910. It is known from the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kenya, Réunion, Madagascar and Tanzania. It has also been recorded from China.
Cosmoclostis brachybela is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1947 and is known from South Africa.
Cosmoclostis chalconota is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1947 and is known from Uganda.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Stenoptilia nolckeni is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Finland and northern Russia. It has also been recorded from Korea and China.
Cosmoclostis gmelina is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Hainan, China.
Cosmoclostis auxileuca is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Assam, India.