''Oidaematophorus'' 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
Pterophoridae
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are ...
with a
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
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Ecology
Host plants mainly belong to the
Asteraceae
Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...
.
Species
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Oidaematophorus balsamorrhizae''
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Oidaematophorus baroni''
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Oidaematophorus borbonicus''
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Oidaematophorus brucei''
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Oidaematophorus castor''
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Oidaematophorus catalinae''
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Oidaematophorus cineraceus''
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Oidaematophorus constanti''
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Oidaematophorus cretidactylus''
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Oidaematophorus downesi
''Oidaematophorus downesi'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in North America.
References
Oidaematophorini
Moths described in 1927
Moths of North America
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Oidaematophorus eupatorii''
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Oidaematophorus giganteus''
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Oidaematophorus grandis''
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Oidaematophorus grisescens
''Oidaematophorus grisescens'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in North America (including California, Colorado, Oregon, Montana, British Columbia and Alberta) and Mexico.
The wingspan is . The head and palpi are grey, with a ...
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Oidaematophorus guttatus''
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Oidaematophorus iwatensis''
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Oidaematophorus kellicottii''
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Oidaematophorus lindseyi''
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Oidaematophorus lithodactyla''
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Oidaematophorus madecasseus''
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Oidaematophorus mathewianus''
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Oidaematophorus mauritius''
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Oidaematophorus mineti''
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Oidaematophorus negus
''Oidaematophorus negus'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It ...
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Oidaematophorus nigrofuscus''
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Oidaematophorus occidentalis''
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Oidaematophorus parshuramus''
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Oidaematophorus phaceliae''
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Oidaematophorus pseudotrachyphloeus''
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Oidaematophorus rileyi''
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Oidaematophorus rogenhoferi''
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Oidaematophorus trachyphloeus
''Oidaematophorus trachyphloeus'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite w ...
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Oidaematophorus vafradactylus''
Former species
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Oidaematophorus beneficus''
References
Oidaematophorini
Moth genera
Taxa named by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren
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