| Oidaematophorus giganteus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Oidaematophorus |
| Species: | O. giganteus |
| Binomial name | |
| Oidaematophorus giganteus Mann, 1855 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Oidaematophorus giganteus is a moth in the family Pterophoridae. It is found on Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia and in Portugal, France and Italy. [1]
The species have a wingspan of 28–31 millimetres (1.1–1.2 in), and are brownish-yellow coloured. The lobes are dorsally curved and acute. The male genitalia valve is elongated from the left, but is still straight and half as long as the right valve. Meantime, the right valve is of the same shape, but lacks a saccular spine, which the left one has. The female genitalia have flattened Ostium, while the antrum is narrowed, identically to Oidaematophorus constanti . [2]
The larvae feed on Inula hellenium and Mediterranean fleabane ( Pulicaria odora ). [3]
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".
Hellinsia beneficus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is native to Mexico, but was introduced to Hawaii in 1973 as a biological control agent against mistflower, Ageratina riparia.
Oidaematophorus iwatensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan (Honshu), Korea and China.
Oidaematophorus lithodactyla, also known as the dusky plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found from Europe to Asia Minor and Japan. It was first described by German lepidopterist, Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1833.
Oidaematophorus is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a cosmopolitan distribution.
Platyptilia tesseradactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in the Palearctic, and North America. It was first described by the Swedish taxonomist, Carl Linnaeus in 1761.
Oidaematophorus borbonicus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from La Réunion.
Oidaematophorus constanti is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found on Corsica and Sardinia and in Spain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and North Macedonia.
Oidaematophorus rogenhoferi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Fennoscandia. It is also known from North America and the South Siberian Mountains.
Oidaematophorus vafradactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in Estonia, Finland and Sweden.
Oidaematophorus eupatorii, the eupatorium plume moth or Joe Pye plume moth, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America, including Florida, Mississippi, Iowa, New York, California and Vancouver Island. It is also known from Mexico, Guatemala and Panama.
Oidaematophorus baroni is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in North America.
Oidaematophorus occidentalis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found from Alberta and British Columbia to Arizona and Utah.
Oidaematophorus phaceliae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found from Yukon to Ontario, south to California and Baja California. The habitat consists of boreal forest.
Hellinsia chamelai is a moth in a family Pterophoridae that is found in Mexico and Costa Rica.
Hellinsia ochracealis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia and Peru.
Hellinsia paraochracealis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Brazil.
Hellinsia cristobalis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found on the Galapagos Islands.
Gigantoproductus giganteus is an extinct species of brachiopods in the family Monticuliferidae, known only from its fossil remains. It was a marine invertebrate found on the seabed in shallow seas. It evolved during the Carboniferous period and it is believed to be the largest brachiopod that has ever existed.
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