Sphenarches

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pterophoroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Superfamilia: Pterophoroidea

Familia: Pterophoridae
Subfamilia: Pterophorinae
Tribus: Platyptiliini
Genus: Sphenarches
Species: (11):
S. anisodactyla – S. bifurcatus – S. bilineatus – S. caffer – S. cafferoides – S. gilloni – S. languidus – S. mulanje – S. nanellus – S. ontario – S. zanclistis

Name

Sphenarches Meyrick, 1886

Type species: Sphenarches synophrys Meyrick, 1886, by original designation.

References

• Meyrick, E. 1886. On the classification of the Pterophoridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1886: 1–22. BHL Reference page. 
• Gibeaux, C., 1994: Fauna de Madagascar 81 Insectes Lépidoptères Pterophoridae
• Gielis, C., 2003: World Catalogue of Insects Volume 4, Pterophoroidea & Alucitoidea (Lepidoptera).
• Gielis, Cees, 2003: Review of the Pterophoridae from New Guinea , with descriptions of eight new species (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Mededelingen 77 (21): 349–391. [1]]
• Gielis, C., 2006: Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deutero- copinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera).. Zoologische Mededelingen 80-2 (1): 1–290. Full article: [2]
• Gielis, Cees, 2009: On a collection of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) from Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 116 (2): 223–256. Abstract [3]
• Gielis, C., 2011: Notes on some African Pterophoridae, with description of new species (Lepidoptera). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 49: 33–63.
• Kovtunovich, V.; Ustjuzhanin, P.; Murphy, R. 2014: Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Zootaxa 3847(4): 451–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.4.1 Reference page.