List of moths of Australia (Pterophoridae)
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This is a list of the Australian species of the Family
Pterophoridae. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of Australia.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Pterophoridae. It also acts as an index to the species articles and forms part of the full List of moths of Australia.
Deuterocopinae
- Deuterocopus atrapexDeuterocopus atrapexDeuterocopus atrapex is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It has been recorded from Sri Lanka, Assam, Selangor, Tenasserim, south-eastern Borneo, Ternate, Ambon Island, Batian, southern Sulawesi, the Sangihe Islands, Halmahera, Neu Pommern, northern New Guinea, the Kei Islands, the...
Fletcher, 1909 - Deuterocopus honoratusDeuterocopus honoratusDeuterocopus honoratus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Queensland.-Original Description:-External links:**...
Meyrick, 1921 - Deuterocopus socotranusDeuterocopus socotranusDeuterocopus socotranus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan and Japan and through south-east Asia to New Guinea and Australia, where it is found from Townsville to Brisbane in Queensland. It is also present in Africa , Oman and Jemen.The wingspan is...
Rebel, 1907 - Deuterocopus tengstroemiDeuterocopus tengstroemiDeuterocopus tengstroemi is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is known from Java and Queensland.Larvae have been recorded feeding on Vitis quadrangularis.-Original Description:-External links:**...
Zeller, 1852 - Hexadactilia civilisHexadactilia civilisHexadactilia civilis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Queensland.-Original Description:-External links:**...
Meyrick, 1921 - Hexadactilia trilobataHexadactilia trilobataHexadactilia trilobata is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Queensland and New Guinea.-Original Description:-External links:**...
Fletcher, 1910
Pterophorinae
- Bipunctiphorus euctimenaBipunctiphorus euctimenaBipunctiphorus euctimena is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, where it is known from Brisbane, Kuranda and Toowoomba.-External links:*...
(Turner, 1913) - Cosmoclostis aglaodesmaCosmoclostis aglaodesmaCosmoclostis aglaodesma is a species of moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found from the Atherton Tableland in Queensland, south to near Taree in New South Wales.The larvae feed on the flowers of Gmelina arborea and Tectona species....
Meyrick, 1886 - Cosmoclostis hemiadelphaCosmoclostis hemiadelphaCosmoclostis hemiadelpha is a species of moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Queensland and New Guinea.-External links:*...
Fletcher, 1947 - Cosmoclostis pesseutaCosmoclostis pesseutaCosmoclostis pesseuta is a species of moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is in India and Sri Lanka, but has also been recorded from New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Recently, it has also been collected in Queensland....
Meyrick, 1906 - Hellinsia balanotesHellinsia balanotesThe Baccharis Borer is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is native to the United States and northern Mexico, including Arizona, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Maryland, but has been introduced to Australia for the control of Baccharis halimifolia.The wingspan is 31–42 mm.The...
(Meyrick, 1908) - Hellinsia lienigianusHellinsia lienigianusHellinsia lienigianus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone , India, south-east Asia, Africa and Queensland in Australia....
(Zeller, 1852) - Hellinsia tinctidactylusHellinsia tinctidactylusHellinsia tinctidactylus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia.-External links:*...
(Newman, 1856) - Hepalastis pumilioHepalastis pumilioHepalastis pumilio is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It has worldwide tropical distribution, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Surinam, Japan, Micronesia, South Africa the Virgin Islands as well as Queensland.The...
(Zeller, 1873) - Imbophorus aptalisImbophorus aptalisImbophorus aptalis is a species of moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia , as well as the New Hebrides, Fiji and Tonga.The wingspan is about 10 mm....
(Walker, 1864) - Imbophorus leucophasma (Turner, 1911)
- Imbophorus pallidusImbophorus pallidusImbophorus pallidus is a species of moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia....
Arenberger, 1991 - Lantanophaga pusillidactylaLantanophaga pusillidactylaThe Lantana Plume Moth is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is native to the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and South America. It was introduced to Australia accidentally in 1936 and is now found from Sydney to Cairns along the coast...
(Walker, 1864) - Megalorhipida leucodactylus (Fabricius, 1794) (syn: Trichoptilus adelphodes Meyrick, 1887)
- Nippoptilia cinctipedalisNippoptilia cinctipedalisNippoptilia cinctipedalis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, Korea, Japan , China, Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and Vietnam....
(Walker, 1864) - Oxyptilus regulusOxyptilus regulusThe Grape Boring Plume Moth is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, but has recently also been recorded from southern India....
Meyrick, 1906 - Platyptilia celidotusPlatyptilia celidotusPlatyptilia celidotus is a moth of the Pterophoroidea family. It is found in New Zealand and Australia.It is easily distinguished from other Australian species by the diagonal fuscous streak at the base of the forewing cleft. The end of the streak closer to the costa is much further from the base...
(Meyrick, 1885) - Platyptilia isodactyla (Zeller, 1852)
- (Platyptilia omissalisPlatyptilia omissalisPlatyptilia omissalis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found from southern Queensland to Victoria, south-western Australia and Tasmania.Some authors consider it a synonym of Sinpunctiptilia emissalis....
Fletcher, 1926) - Pterophorus albidusPterophorus albidusPterophorus albidus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is distributed in Africa, south and south-east Asia, including New Guinea and Australia, as well as Japan and the Ryukyu Islands ....
(Zeller, 1852) - Pterophorus lacteipennisPterophorus lacteipennisPterophorus lacteipennis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in south and southeast Asia, including Taiwan, Burma, Borneo, the Solomon Islands, Australia and New Guinea.-External links:**...
(Walker, 1864) - Sinpunctiptilia emissalisSinpunctiptilia emissalisSinpunctiptilia emissalis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, including Tasmania. Its wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults have brown plumes, with two pale marks near each forewing apex, and several dark marks on each forewing costa.The larvae feed on the leaves of Derwentia...
Walker, 1864 - Sinpunctiptilia tasmaniaeSinpunctiptilia tasmaniaeSinpunctiptilia tasmaniae is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Tasmania.Sinpunctiptilia tasmaniae was separated from Sinpunctiptilia emissalis by Arenberger in 2006. The two species cannot be separated on external appearance, but the genitalia show clear differences.-External links:*...
Arenberger, 2006 - Sphenarches anisodactylusSphenarches anisodactylusThe Geranium Plume Moth is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in western Africa, Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan, the New Hebrides and Central and South America, as well as Australia, where it has been recorded from Cape York to central New South Wales...
(Walker, 1864) - Sphenarches zanclistesSphenarches zanclistesSphenarches zanclistes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia.Larvae have been recorded feeding on Dolichos lablab, Vigna unguiculata and Vigna sava.-Original Description:-External links:***...
(Meyrick, 1905) - Stangeia xerodesStangeia xerodesStangeia xerodes is a moth of the Pterophoroidea family. It is found in most of mainland Australia, the Ryukyu Islands and Java.The wingspan is about 10 mm....
(Meyrick, 1886) - Stenodacma pyrrhodesStenodacma pyrrhodesStenodacma pyrrhodes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It has a wide range and has been recorded from Australia, India, Japan, South Africa, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand and Korea.The wingspan is 10-11 mm.-Taxonomy:...
(Meyrick, 1889) - Stenoptilia leuconephesStenoptilia leuconephesStenoptilia leuconephes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, including Tasmania.-External links:*...
(Meyrick, 1886) - Stenoptilia phaeonephesStenoptilia phaeonephesStenoptilodes phaeonephes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, including Tasmania.The wingspan is about 10 mm.-External links:**...
(Meyrick, 1886) - Stenoptilia zophodactylusStenoptilia zophodactylusStenoptilia zophodactylus is a species of moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Europe, North America, South America , Australia, South Africa, India and Iran.The wingspan is 16-23 mm....
(Duponchel, 1840) - Stenoptilodes taprobanesStenoptilodes taprobanesStenoptilodes taprobanes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. This species has a pantropical distribution, which extends into subtropical areas.The wingspan is 10-20 mm....
(R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) - Tetraschalis arachnodesTetraschalis arachnodesTetraschalis arachnodes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, including New South Wales.The wingspan is about 20 mm.-External links:**...
Meyrick, 1887 - Tomotilus saitoiTomotilus saitoiTomotilus saitoi is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It apparently has a wide range, since it has been reported from Australia, India and Japan .The length of the forewings is 6-8 mm....
Yano, 1961 - Trichoptilus ceramodesTrichoptilus ceramodesTrichoptilus ceramodes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, including New South Wales and South Australia.-Original Description:-External links:**...
Meyrick, 1886 - Trichoptilus inclitusTrichoptilus inclitusTrichoptilus inclitus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia.-External links:**...
T.P. Lucas, 1892 - Trichoptilus scythrodesTrichoptilus scythrodesTrichoptilus scythrodes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia, including New South Wales and South Australia.-Original Description:-External links:**...
Meyrick, 1886 - Wheeleria spilodactylusWheeleria spilodactylusThe Horehound Plume Moth is a moth of the Pterophoroidea family. It is endemic to South-Western and Central Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and North Africa. It has been introduced to Australia.The wingspan is 20-25 mm...
(Curtis, 1827) - Xyroptila elegansXyroptila elegansXyroptila peltastes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in north-eastern New Guinea and Australia....
Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2006 - Xyroptila kurandaXyroptila kurandaXyroptila kuranda is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in southern Sulawesi and Australia....
Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2006 - Xyroptila marmariasXyroptila marmariasXyroptila marmarias is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found on the Atherton Tableland in Queensland and is also known from New Guinea.The bright colours of the adult suggest it is a day active species....
Meyrick, 1908 - Xyroptila peltastesXyroptila peltastesXyroptila peltastes is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Australia.-Original Description:-External links:***...
(Meyrick, 1908) - Xyroptila uluruXyroptila uluruXyroptila uluru is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in western Australia....
Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2006