Puerphorus
Puerphorus | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pterophoridae |
Tribe: | Oidaematophorini |
Genus: | Puerphorus Arenberger, 1989 |
Species: | P. olbiadactylus
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Binomial name | |
Puerphorus olbiadactylus | |
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Puerphorus is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae containing only one species, Puerphorus olbiadactylus, which is known from Yemen, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, southern Europe and Turkey.
The larvae feed on , Phagnalon saxatile, and .
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Categories:
- Oidaematophorini
- Moths of the Arabian Peninsula
- Moths of Europe
- Moths described in 1859
- Monotypic moth genera
- Taxa named by Pierre Millière
- Pterophoridae stubs