''Pterophorus'' 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 ...
.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
* ''
Pterophorus africanus''
Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010
* ''
Pterophorus albidus''
(Zeller Zeller, meaning both prisoner and monk in German, may refer to:
Places
*Zeller Ache, a river of Upper Austria
*Zeller Bach (Isar), a river of Bavaria, Germany, tributary of the Isar
*Zeller Bach (Memminger Ach), a river of Bavaria, Germany, tributa ...
, 1852)
* ''
Pterophorus aliubasignum''
Gielis, 2000
* ''
Pterophorus ashanti''
Arenberger, 1995
* ''
Pterophorus bacteriopa''
* ''
Pterophorus baliolus''
* ''
Pterophorus candidalis''
* ''
Pterophorus ceraunia''
* ''
Pterophorus chosokeialis''
* ''
Pterophorus cleronoma''
* ''
Pterophorus dallastai''
* ''
Pterophorus denticulata''
* ''
Pterophorus ebbei''
* ''
Pterophorus elaeopus''
* ''
Pterophorus erratus''
* ''
Pterophorus flavus''
* ''
Pterophorus furcatalis''
* ''
Pterophorus innotatalis''
* ''
Pterophorus ischnodactyla''
* ''
Pterophorus kuningus''
* ''
Pterophorus lacteipennis''
* ''
Pterophorus lamottei''
* ''
Pterophorus lampra''
* ''
Pterophorus legrandi''
* ''
Pterophorus leucadactylus''
* ''
Pterophorus lieftincki''
* ''
Pterophorus lindneri''
* ''
Pterophorus massai''
* ''
Pterophorus melanopoda''
* ''
Pterophorus monospilalis''
* ''
Pterophorus nigropunctatus''
* ''
Pterophorus niveodactyla''
* ''
Pterophorus niveus''
* ''
Pterophorus pentadactyla''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
* ''
Pterophorus rhyparias''
* ''
Pterophorus spissa''
* ''
Pterophorus tinsuki''
* ''
Pterophorus uzungwe''
* ''
Pterophorus virgo''
* ''
Pterophorus volgensis''
( Moschler, 1862), 1862
* ''
Pterophorus wahlbergi''
References
Pterophorini
Moth genera
{{Pterophorinae-stub