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Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla

Synonyms: Platyptilia marmarodactyla; Platyptilia pasadenensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is native to California and Arizona, south through Mexico to Costa Rica. It is an introduced species in Hawaii. Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. described the species in 1902 as Platyptilia marmarodactyla. In 1958, Zimmerman moved the species to a new genus, Anstenoptilia, but (mis-)spelled the epithet: Anstenoptilia marmorodactyla. The misspelling has been reused in several subsequent publications. The wingspan is 16–18 mm. Adults are on wing in May and September in Central America and from July to November in the Nearctic ecozone.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.669 inches (.017 m)

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♦ 1Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deuterocopinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera), C. Gielis, Zool. Med. Leiden 80 (2006)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0