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".
Phlomis is a genus of over 100 species of herbaceous plants, subshrubs and shrubs in the family Lamiaceae, native from the Mediterranean region east across central Asia to China.
Horehound or hoarhound may refer to:
Wheeleria spilodactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae, first described by John Curtis in 1827. It is found in South-Western and Central Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and North Africa. It has been introduced to Australia as a biocontrol agent for white horehound.
Spialia phlomidis, the Persian skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, southern Russia, Asia Minor and Iran. The habitat consists of dry steppe habitats at moderate elevations.
Wheeleria is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Wheeleria ivae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from former Yugoslavia, Asia Minor, Syria and Lebanon.
Agdistis heydeni is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from western Asia, southern Europe, Hungary, Poland, North Africa and the Canary Islands.
Coleophora phlomidis is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in Romania, southern Russia, central Asia and Asia Minor.
Pterophorinae is a subfamily of moths in the family Pterophoridae.
Wheeleria obsoletus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Cyprus, Turkmenistan, Asia Minor and western Asia.
Wheeleria sobeidae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey.
Wheeleria elbursi is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Iran and Tukey.
Wheeleria lyrae is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to Greece.
Wheeleria raphiodactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Portugal, Spain and France.
Wheeleria kasachstanica is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to Kazakhstan.
Wheeleria kabuli is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Afghanistan. It was described by Ernst Arenberger in 1981.
Wheeleria parviflorellus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Afghanistan. It was described by Ernst Arenberger in 1981.
Wheeleria leptopsamma is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to Egypt. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925.
