''Anthophila'', from
Ancient Greek
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ἄνθος (''ánthos''), meaning "flower", and φίλος (''phílos''), meaning "loving", 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
Choreutidae.
Species
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Anthophila abhasica''
Danilevsky, 1969
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Anthophila alpinella''
(Busck, 1904)
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Anthophila armata''
Danilevsky, 1969
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Anthophila bidzilyai''
Budashkin, 1997
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Anthophila brachymorpha''
(Meyrick, 1915)
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Anthophila colchica''
Danilevsky, 1969
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Anthophila decolorana''
Danilevsky, 1969
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Anthophila dischides''
Diakonoff, 1978
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Anthophila fabriciana
''Anthophila fabriciana'', also known as the common nettle-tap, is a moth of the family Choreutidae first described in 1767 by Carl Linnaeus. The moth can be found flying around Urtica dioica, stinging nettles during the day.
Distribution
This s ...
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(Linnaeus, 1767)
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Anthophila filipjevi''
Danilevsky, 1969
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Anthophila latarniki''
Guillermet, 2010
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Anthophila ludifica''
(Meyrick, 1914)
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Anthophila massaicae''
Agassiz, 2008
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Anthophila oreina''
Diakonoff, 1979
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Anthophila threnodes''
(Walsingham, 1910)
Former species
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Anthophila achyrodes''
(Meyrick, 1912)
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Anthophila equatoris''
(Walsingham, 1897)
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Anthophila flavimaculata''
(Walsingham, 1891)
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Anthophila fulminea''
(Meyrick, 1912)
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Anthophila ialeura''
(Meyrick, 1912)
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Anthophila psilachyra''
(Meyrick, 1912)
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Anthophila submarginalis''
(Walker, 1865)
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Anthophila torridula''
(Meyrick, 1926)
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Anthophila turilega''
(Meyrick, 1924)
External links
Choreutidae.lifedesks.org
Choreutidae
Taxa named by Adrian Hardy Haworth
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