| Fuscoptilia sinuata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Fuscoptilia |
| Species: | F. sinuata |
| Binomial name | |
| Fuscoptilia sinuata (Qin & Zheng, 1997) [1] | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Fuscoptilia sinuata is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Yunnan, China. [2]
The wingspan is about 23 mm.
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings. 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".
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.
Exelastis is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Deuterocopus is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1852.
Hexadactilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1910.
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.
Arcoptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Fuscoptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Marasmarcha is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1886.
Fuscoptilia emarginatus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the Hokkaido, Honshu and Kyushu islands of Japan, the Kuril Islands, Korea, China and Amur. It is also known from Mongolia.
Leptodeuterocopus sorongensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Papua New Guinea.
Ochyrotica cretosa is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from New Guinea, the Moluccas and the Solomon Islands.
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.
Megalorhipida tessmanni is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Réunion, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
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.
Heptaloba tanglong is a moth of the family Pterophoridae described by Petr Ya. Ustjuzhanin and Vasily N. Kovtunovich in 2010. It is found in Vietnam. The habitat consists of long-boled forest with the predominance of Lagerstroemia species and various legumes, including Afzelia xylocarpa.
Parafuscoptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae, containing only one species, Parafuscoptilia tubuliformis. It was described in 2005 by Shu-Lian Hao and Hou-Hun Li from specimens collected in Fujian, China. It is placed to tribe Marasmarchini.
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