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".
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 admiranda is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Japan (Honshu).
Stenoptilia pinarodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Japan (Hokkaido) and Siberia.
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 annadactyla, also known as the small scabious plume, is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It was first described by Reinhard Sutter in 1988 and is found in Europe.
Stenoptilia aridus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in the Mediterranean region and northern Africa and is a rare immigrant in more northern parts of Europe, including Belgium and Great Britain. It is also known from Central Asia, Yemen and Iran.
Stenoptilia pinkeri is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Turkey.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Stenoptilia mannii is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Stenoptilia wagneri is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Iran.
Stenoptilia parnasia is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Iran.
Stenoptilia lucasi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and Iran.
Stenoptilia graphodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Spain, Belgium, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania. It is also known from Russia.
Stenoptilia pelidnodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in most of Europe, except Portugal, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Greece, Lithuania and Ukraine.
Stenoptilia poculi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Russia and China.
