Gillmeria scutata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Gillmeria |
Species: | G. scutata |
Binomial name | |
Gillmeria scutata (Yano, 1961) | |
Synonyms | |
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Gillmeria scutata is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from the Honshu province of Japan.
The length of the forewings is 11–13 millimetres (0.43–0.51 in).
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".
Gillmeria ochrodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in Asia and Europe. It was first described by the Austrian entomologists, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775.
Gillmeria pallidactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by the English entomologist, Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811. It has a Holarctic distribution and is widespread throughout North America and the Palearctic.
Sphenarches anisodactylus, commonly known as the geranium plume moth, is a species of moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is found in western Africa, Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan, the New Hebrides and Central and South America, as well as Australia, where it has been recorded from Cape York to central New South Wales. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Florida, as well as Mississippi. It is also present in the Kermadec Islands of New Zealand.
Pterophorus albidus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is distributed in Africa, south and south-east Asia, including New Guinea and Australia, as well as Japan (Kyushu) and the Ryukyu Islands.
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.
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.
Pselnophorus japonicus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It known from Japan.
Gillmeria is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was described by the English schoolteacher and entomologist, James William Tutt in 1905.
Gillmeria albertae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by William Barnes and Arthur Ward Lindsey in 1921. It is known from the mountains of Alberta near Banff.
Gillmeria stenoptiloides is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan (Honshu), north-east China, Mongolia, and Russia. It was described by Ivan Nikolayevich Filipjev in 1927.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Gillmeria armeniaca is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Iran.
Gillmeria irakella is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that can be found in Turkey, Iraq and Iran.
Gillmeria macrornis is a moth species of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Russia and China.
Gillmeria miantodactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in France, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Russia and Asia Minor.
Gillmeria melanoschista is a moth of the family Pterophoridae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940. It is found in Russia and Japan.
Gillmeria rhusiodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae with a type locality in Armenia.
Gillmeria vesta is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the Russian Far East.