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Pterophorus Schäffer, 1766

Pterophorus Schäffer, 1766; Elementa Entomologica, t. 104, figs 2, 3, TS: Alucita pentadactyla
Pterophorus Geoffroy, 1762; suppressed (ICZN Op. 228)
Plumiger Valmont-Bomare, 1791; unavailable (ICZN Op. 228)
Pterophora Hübner, [1806]; suppressed (ICZN Op. 97)
Pterophora Hübner, 1822; , TS: Phalaena pentadactyla
Aciptilia Hübner, [1925]; , TS: Phalaena pentadactyla

= ; [NACL, 87]

Aciptilus Zeller, 1841; emendation
Acoptilia Agassiz, 1847; emendation
Alucita auct., (nec Linnaeus, 1758); ICZN Op. 703)
Pterophorus (Pterophorinae) ; [NACL, 87]

Pterophorus pentadactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)

EU, Asia Minor - Iran. See [About maps] Isosulkaperhonen Valkosulkaperhonen
Alucita pentadactyla Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. Ed. X(1): 542
Phalaena tridactyla Scopoli, 1763; Entomologica Carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species varietates methodo Linnaeana, 257
Pterophorus pentadactyla, Svenska fjärilar [SVF]
Pterophorus pentadactyla, UK Moths [Ian Kimber]
Pterophorus pentadactylus ;

865x600 (~80Kb) Russia, Moscow area, 15.7.2005, Photo © D. Smirnov

Larva on Convolvulus arvensis, Calystegia sepium [ME1]

Pterophorus ischnodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)

SEU, Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, North Africa, South Africa. See [About maps] Alucita ischnodactyla Treitschke, 1833; Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, 9: 223
Aciptilia actinodactyla Chrétien, 1891; Naturaliste 13 (2nd serie): 99
Aciptilia eburnella Amsell, 1968; Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk., 191: 14

Larva on Convolvulus cantabricus [ME1]

9.9.2005 (4)

References:

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[D. Smirnov]

Russia, Moscow; e-mail: D. Smirnov

[Ian Kimber]

http://www.ukmoths.force9.co.uk/

[ME1]

Cees Gielis, 1996; Pterophoridae; In P. Huemer, O. Karsholt & L. Lyneborg (eds.); Microlepidoptera of Europe 1: 1-222

[NACL]

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico

[SVF]

Svenska fjärilar; Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; (Sweden)

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