Pterophoroidea

Plume moth information resource

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Licence: 
Creative Commons Licence
Keywords: 
female (Image keywords), specimen (Image keywords), genitalia (Image keywords)
Description: 

Oxyptilus causodes, female, ANIC specimen 31 071625, genitalia slide 10633, collected Cooktown, QLD, 10 February 1980

This is a large plume moth with superficial colouring similarities to Tetraschalis arachnodes but with different patterning and shapes to the forewings and differences in the genitalia

Taxonomic name: 
Pterophorinae (Pterophoroidea), Oxyptilus causodes (Pterophoroidea)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith