Gillmeria stenoptiloides

Gillmeria stenoptiloides is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan (Honshu), north-east China, Mongolia, and Russia (where it is found in the North Ural, South Siberia, Kamchatka & Russian Far East).[1] It was described by Ivan Nikolayevich Filipjev in 1927.[2]

Gillmeria stenoptiloides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Gillmeria
Species:
G. stenoptiloides
Binomial name
Gillmeria stenoptiloides
(Filipjev, 1927)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amblyptilia stenoptiloides Filipjev, 1927
  • Platyptilia stenoptiloides

The species has dark red-brown wings.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Nupponen, K. (2022). "Description of a new Pterophoridae from Kazakhstan and new distribution records from central Palearctic region (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 50 (197): 63. ISSN 0300-5267. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  2. ^ Fazekas, Imre (2003). "Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)" [Five new species, distribution records of plume moths from Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Balkans and the Africa (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae)]. Folia comloensis (in German). 12: 5–24.