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".
Pselnophorus jaechi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found locally around Mount Meru in Tanzania.
Pselnophorus is a genus of moths in the plume moth family, Pterophoridae. They are native to the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa. As of 2014 the genus contains eighteen species.
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.
Lioptilodes albistriolatus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. In South America and Central America it has been recorded from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Puerto Rico. It is also present in North America, where it is known from Mexico, California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.
Pselnophorus vilis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It known from Japan, Amur, Korea and China.
Pselnophorus japonicus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It known from Japan.
Leptodeuterocopus neales is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Suriname, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. It has recently been recorded from Florida.
Stenoptilia pallistriga is a moth of the family Pterophoridae described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1913. It is known from Dominica, Ecuador, Jamaica, Paraguay and Suriname. It is also found in the United States in Florida and Mississippi.
Pselnophorus heterodactyla, also known as the short-winged plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in most of Europe. It was first described by Danish naturalist, Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764.
Hellinsia balanotes, the baccharis borer, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae which is native to Guatemala, northern Mexico, and the United States including Arizona, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Maryland, but has been introduced to Australia for the control of Baccharis halimifolia. The species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1908.
Pselnophorus ducis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Madagascar.
Pselnophorus poggei is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Ukraine, southern Russia, Iran and Asia Minor.
Buckleria parvulus, the sundew plume moth, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. The species was first described by William Barnes and Arthur Ward Lindsey in 1965 from Archbold Biological Station, Florida. It is found in the south-eastern United States, including Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.
Pselnophorus belfragei is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the south-eastern United States, from South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and Oklahoma.
Pselnophorus brevispinus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to China.
Pselnophorus emeishanensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Sichuan province of China.
Aethes matheri is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.
Pselnophorus chihuahuaensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from western Texas, Arizona and the intermediary desert regions of Mexico.
Pselnophorus hodgesi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from southern Arizona and southern Texas.
