Pselnophorus kutisi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Genus: | Pselnophorus |
Species: | P. kutisi |
Binomial name | |
Pselnophorus kutisi Matthews, Gielis, & Watkins, 2014 | |
Pselnophorus kutisi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Texas and Florida.
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. 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.
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.
Lantanophaga pusillidactyla, the lantana plume moth, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is native to the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. It was introduced to Australia accidentally in 1936 and is now found from Sydney to Cairns along the coast. It has also been introduced to Hawaii in 1902, Pohnpei in 1948, and Palau in 1960 for biological control. It has since been recorded from Yap in 1987–1988 and is now distributed on all islands of the Mariana and Caroline Islands where the host plant is found, except Aguijan.
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.
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.
Pselnophorus zulu is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from South Africa.
Pselnophorus ducis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Madagascar.
Pselnophorus laudatus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Madagascar.
Pselnophorus pachyceros is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Mozambique and South Africa.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Pselnophorus poggei is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Ukraine, southern Russia, Iran and Asia Minor.
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 albitarsella is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in India.
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.
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.