Titanoptilus stenodactylus

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: Tetraschalini
Genus: Titanoptilus
Species: Titanoptilus stenodactylus

Name

Titanoptilus stenodactylus (Fletcher, 1911)

Type locality: Zimbabwe, Mashonaland.

Holotype: BMNH. male ♂. 1903.

Synonyms

• Oxyptilus stenodactylus Fletcher, 1911
• Titanoptilus patellatus Meyrick, 1913 (synonymized by Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010: 692)
  • Type locality: South Africa, Natal, Durban.
  • Holotype: BMNH. male ♂.
• Titanoptilus laniger Bigot, 1969 (synonymized by Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010: 692)
  • Type locality: Zaire, Elizabethville.
  • Holotype: RMCA. male ♂.
• Macrotinactis stenodactylus Fletcher, 1911 (comb. nov. by Gielis, 2003: 23).
• Titanoptilus stenodactylus Fletcher, 1911 (comb. nov. by Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2010: 691).

References

• Bigot, L. 1969: Les Lépidoptères Pterophoridae du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, à Tervuren. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines, 79(1-2): 165–206. Reference page. 
• Fletcher, T.B. 1911. Four new Pterophoridae. The Entomologist 44: 281–283. Reference page. 
• Kovtunovich, V. & P. Ustjuzhanin, 2012: On the fauna of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae Hübner) of Swaziland. Amurian Zoological Journal 4 (2): 160–163. Full article: [1]
• Ustjuzhanin, P.Ya. & Kovtunovich, V.N., 2010: On the fauna of the plume moths (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) of KwaZulu Natal province (South-African Republic). Euroasian Entomological Journal 9(4): 689-719. Reference page.