Xyroptila africana

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: Xyroptila
Species: Xyroptila africana

Name

Xyroptila africana Bigot, 1969

Type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo, Province Orientale, Eala

Holotype: MRAC. male ♂. VIII.1936.

Synonyms

• Xyroptilia [sic] africana Bigot, 1969

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. 
• Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Petr Ya. Ustjuzhanin, 2006: The genus Xyroptila Meyrick, 1908 in the worlds fauna: new species, new records and taxonomical comments (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Atalanta 37 (1/2): 249–276.