| Platyptilia exaltatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Platyptilia |
| Species: | P. exaltatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Platyptilia exaltatus (Zeller, 1867) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Platyptilia exaltatus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in India. [1]
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".
Echinops exaltatus, the Russian globe thistle or tall globethistle, is European species of globe thistle in the sunflower family. It is native to central and eastern Europe from Germany and Italy east into Russia. The species has escaped cultivation and become established in the wild in scattered locations in eastern Canada and the northern United States.
Platyptilia gonodactyla, also known as the triangle plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in temperate Asia and Europe. It was first described by the Austrian entomologists, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775.
Ceanothus gloriosus is a species of shrub in the family Rhamnaceae known by the common name Point Reyes ceanothus. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the coastline of the San Francisco Bay Area and areas north and south. It grows on seaside bluffs and the slopes of the coastal mountains. This shrub grows flat and spreading to erect, approaching two meters in maximum size. The evergreen leaves are oppositely arranged and up to 5 centimeters long, rounded to oval in shape. The edges are toothed, the teeth sometimes spine-tipped. The inflorescence is a small cluster of bright blue to purple flowers. The fruit is a horned capsule about 4 millimeters wide.
Ptilotus Exaltatus, more commonly known as pink mulla mulla, is an erect annual herb endemic to large parts of arid and semi-arid Australia. It grows throughout most areas of Australia except the Nullarbor Plain, occurring geographically above a line drawn from Perth to Esperance. The species was first observed and described in 1810, and comprehensively catalogued in 1971.
Platyptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.
Platyptilia farfarellus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. The species was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1867. It is found from central and southern Europe to Asia Minor, Micronesia and Japan. It is also known from Africa, where it has been recorded from Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, São Tomé & Principe, Tanzania, Uganda, the Seychelles and Malawi.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Platyptilia calamicola is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Java, Indonesia.
Platyptilia euridactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Russia and China (Manchuria).
Platyptilia isocrates is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the Kashmir region of what was British India.
Platyptilia lusi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Chita Oblast, Russia.
Platyptilia naminga is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Chita Oblast, Russia.
Platyptilia resoluta is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Taishan, China.
Platyptilia suigensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Japan and Korea.
Platyptilia superscandens is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It was described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940 and it is found in India.
Platyptilia triphracta is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in India.
Platyptilia ussuriensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Amur Oblast of Russia.
Ptilotus nobilis, commonly known as yellow tails, is an annual or short-lived perennial herb of the family Amaranthaceae. It is found in arid regions of South Australia, southern and eastern Northern Territory, western Queensland and western New South Wales.
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