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".
Stenoptilia pterodactyla, the brown plume is a moth of the family Pterophoroidea. It is found in Europe, North America, Anatolia, Iran and China. It was first described by the Swedish taxonomist, Carl Linnaeus in 1761.
Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla, also known as the twin-spot plume is a moth of the Pterophoroidea family found in North Africa, Asia and Europe. It was first described by the Austrian physician and naturalist, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763. It is one of four similar looking moths.
Stenoptilia zophodactylus, also known as the dowdy plume, is a species of moth of the family Pterophoridae found worldwide. It was first described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1840.
Stenoptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Stenoptilia karsholti is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Peru.
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.
Stenoptilia suprema is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Stenoptilia gratiolae is a species of moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in many countries throughout Eurasia, including Jordan, western Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Sweden, and Norway.
Stenoptilia nolckeni is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Finland and northern Russia. It has also been recorded from Korea and China.
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.
Stenoptilia coprodactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Russia.
Stenoptilia lutescens is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, and North Macedonia, and on the island of Sardinia.
Stenoptilia veronicae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Fennoscandia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and northern Russia.
Stenoptilia coloradensis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America.
Stenoptilia poculi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Russia and China.
Stenoptilia dubatolovi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Turkmenistan.
Stenoptilia jacutica is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Yakutia, Russia.
Stenoptilia kosterini is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Kamchatka, Russia.
Stenoptilia latistriga is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the South Siberian Mountains of Russia.
