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Plume moth genus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Merrifieldia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. It has an Old World distribution, with species known from Asia, Africa and Europe.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Subfamily: | Pterophorinae |
Tribe: | Pterophorini |
Genus: | Merrifieldia Tutt, 1905[1] |
As of version 1.1.23.125[update], the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus Merrifieldia:[1]
This species was originally described as Pterophorus oligocenicus, and its authors associated it with what was at the time the tridactyla-spicidactylus group within genus Pterophorus.[3] Although these species were transferred to Merrifieldia as a result of the 1996 revision of Pterophorus sensu lato by Cees Gielis, Pterophorus oligocenicus remained within Pterophorus until it was transferred to Merrifieldia in 2012 by Sohn et al.[3][2]
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