Phycodopteryx
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''Phycodopteryx'' is a genus of
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the family
Brachodidae Brachodidae is a family of day-flying moths, commonly known as little bear moths, which contains about 135 species distributed around much of the world (Edwards et al. 1999). The relationships and status of the presently included genera are not w ...
. It contains the single species ''Phycodopteryx tigripes'', which is found in
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and
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(Assam). The habitat consists of submontane tropical forests. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...
is 25–30 mm for females and 23–25 mm for males. Adults have been recorded on wing from early May to early June, probably in one generation per year., 2004: The Brachodidae of the Oriental region and Adjacent territories (Lepidoptera: Sesioidea). ''Tijdschrift voor Entomologie'' 147 (1): 1-20.


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Brachodidae Monotypic moth genera {{Brachodidae-stub