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".
Deuterocopus socotranus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan and Japan and through south-east Asia to New Guinea and Australia, where it is found from Townsville to Brisbane in Queensland. It is also present in Africa, Oman and Yemen.
Deuterocopus tengstroemi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Java and Queensland, Australia.
Deuterocopus is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852.
Leptodeuterocopus is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. It was erected in 1910 by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, and has Leptodeuterocopus citrogaster as type species. Several of its species were originally described in genera Deuterocopus or Oxyptilus.
Platyptilia farfarellus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. The species was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1867. It is found from central and southern Europe to Asia Minor, Micronesia and Japan. It is also known from Africa, where it has been recorded from Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, São Tomé & Principe, Tanzania, Uganda, the Seychelles and Malawi.
Platyptilia ignifera is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Japan and India.
Nippoptilia vitis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae, that is known from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and Thailand.
Nippoptilia issikii is a moth of the family Pterophoridae, that is known from Japan (Hokkaido), and Korea and China.
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.
Deuterocopus issikii is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from New Guinea.
Deuterocopus devosi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from New Guinea.
Deuterocopus planeta is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found from India, through south-east Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago.
Deuterocopus papuaensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in New Guinea.
Deuterocopus deltoptilus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Uganda.
Deuterocopus alopecodes is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in India.
Deuterocopus bathychasma is a moth of the family Pterophoridae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910. It can be found on Sumbawa in Indonesia.
Deuterocopus melanota is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910 and it is found in Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
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