| Exelastis | |
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| Exelastis pumilio, Florida | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Tribe: | Marasmarchini |
| Genus: | Exelastis Meyrick, 1908 |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Exelastis is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. [2] [3]
As of version 1.1.23.125 [update] , the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following 19 species for genus Exelastis: [1]
Agdistis is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is the only genus in the Agdistinae subfamily which was described by J. W. Tutt in 1906.
Ochyrotica is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae and only genus in the Ochyroticinae subfamily. Ochyrotica was described by Lord Walsingham in 1891 and the subfamily Ochyroticinae was described by Lutz Thilo Wasserthal in 1970.
Platyptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.
Stenoptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Pselnophorus is a genus of moths in the plume moth family, Pterophoridae. They are native to the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa. As of 2014 the genus contains eighteen species.
Hellinsia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. It was created by J.W. Tutt in honour of the entomologist John Hellins.
Macropiratidae is a family of moths which has sometimes been treated as a subfamily of the Pterophoridae, owing to the resemblance between specimens of Macropiratidae and plume moths of the genus Agdistis, at least when preserved as pinned specimens. The family contains a single genus Agdistopis with three species.
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.
Marasmarcha is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1886.
Megalorhipida is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1935. Species in this genus are distributed in pantropical and subtropical climates. The species typically nests on host plants in the families Nyctaginaceae, Amaranthaceae, Fabaceae, Goodeniaceae, Asteraceae, and Verbenaceae. The generic name is often misspelled as Megalorrhipida. The species formerly placed in the genus Antarches are now considered to belong to this genus.
Titanoptilus is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. It was described by George Hampson in 1905.
Walsinghamiella is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Merrifieldia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. It has an Old World distribution, with species known from Asia, Africa and Europe.
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.
Adaina is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was erected in 1905 by J. W. Tutt. Several of its species have gall-inducing larvae, such as Adaina primulacea, of which the larvae induce stem galls on Chromolaena odorata, and Adaina microdactyla, which induces stem galls on Eupatorium cannabinum.
Crassuncus is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Emmelina is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Exelastis ebalensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It has been recorded from Kenya, Ghana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Oman and Yemen.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
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