Ochyrotica toxopeusi

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Ochyrotica toxopeusi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Pterophoridae
Genus:
Ochyrotica
Species:
O. toxopeusi
Binomial name
Ochyrotica toxopeusi
Gielis, 1988

Ochyrotica toxopeusi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from New Guinea, Sulawesi [1] and Irian Jaya. [2]

Moth Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

Pterophoridae family of insects

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".

New Guinea Island in the Pacific Ocean

New Guinea is a large island separated by a shallow sea from the rest of the Australian continent. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.

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References

  1. ↑ Review of the Pterophoridae from New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Lepidoptera)
  2. ↑ Additions to the genus Ochyrotica Walsingham, 1891, in southeast Asia (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae: Agdistinae)


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