| Stenoptilia meyeri | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Stenoptilia |
| Species: | S. meyeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenoptilia meyeri | |
Stenoptilia meyeri is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found on the Azores. It was first described by Cees Gielis in 1997.
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".
The brown sicklebill, also known as Bee's sicklebill, is a species of bird-of-paradise.
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 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.
Agdistis is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. It is the only genus in the Agdistinae subfamily which was described by J. W. Tutt in 1907.
Ochyrotica is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae and only genus in the Ochyroticinae subfamily. Ochyrotica was described by Lord Walsingham in 1891 and the subfamily Ochyroticinae was described by Lutz Thilo Wasserthal in 1970.
Platyptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. The genus was described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.
Stenoptilia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Hellinsia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Stenoptilia neblina is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Venezuela.
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 tenuis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Alucita is the largest genus of many-plumed moths ; it is also the type genus of its family and the disputed superfamily Alucitoidea. This genus occurs almost worldwide and contains about 180 species as of 2011; new species are still being described and discovered regularly. Formerly, many similar moths of superfamilies Alucitoidea, Copromorphoidea and Pterophoroidea were also placed in Alucita.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Cees Gielis is a Dutch entomologist and researcher of biodiversity, specializing in Lepidoptera, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands. As of March 2019, Gielis authored 378 taxa within the family of Pterophoridae and 19 within the family of Alucitidae.
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