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Sphenarches anisodactylus Walker 1864

Description

Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker, 1864)

(Fig. 11)

Oxyptilus anisodactylus Walker, 1864: 934.

Pterophorus diffusalis Walker, 1864: 945.

Oxyptilus direptalis Walker, 1864: 934 (Part). Sphenarches synophrys Meyrick, 1886: 17.

Sphenarches caffer Fletcher, 1909 (nec Zeller, 1852): 21(part). Sphenarches chroesus Strand, 1913: 66.

Megalorhipida rishwani Makhan, 1994: 353.

Material examined. CHINA: 1 Ψ, Hong Kong, New Territories, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, alt. 160 m, 01.xi.2006 (Roger C. Kendrick).

Hostplants. See Gielis (2003).

Distribution. China (Hong Kong, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Taiwan), cosmopolitan.

Notes

Published as part of Hao, Shulian, Kendrick, Roger C. & Li, Houhun, 2008, Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Checklist of Pterophoridae, with description of one new species (Insecta, Lepidoptera), pp. 37-48 in Zootaxa 1821 on page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274374

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Pterophoridae
Genus
Sphenarches
Species
anisodactylus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sphenarches anisodactylus Walker, 1864 sec. Hao, Kendrick & Li, 2008

References

  • Walker, F. (1864) List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 30, Lepidoptera Heterocera, 926 - 953.
  • Meyrick, E. (1886) On the classification of the Pterophoridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1886, 1 - 21.
  • Fletcher, T. B. (1909) The plume-moths of Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 6, 1 - 39.
  • Zeller, P. C. (1852) Revision der Pterophoriden. Linnaea Entomologica, 6: 319 - 413.
  • Makhan, D. (1994) Two new Pterophoridae from Surinam. SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 22, 353 - 355.
  • Gielis, C. (2003) Pterophoroidea & Alucitoidea (Lepidoptera). World Catalogue of Insects, 4, 1 - 198.