Stenoptilia mengeli
| Stenoptilia mengeli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Stenoptilia |
| Species: | S. mengeli
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| Binomial name | |
| Stenoptilia mengeli Fernald, 1898[1]
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Stenoptilia mengeli is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Greenland and Nunavut, Canada.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The head, palpi, thorax, abdomen and legs are dark ashy grey. A fine white line occurs over each eye. The forewings are ashy grey and glistening. There are a few dark fuscous scales on the first lobe, forming an ill-defined longitudinal stripe on the middle. There is also a fuscous spot at the end of the cleft and a less distinct one on the middle of the cell. The hindwings are ashy grey.[2]
Among Stenoptilia species, the lowest interspecific divergence was between Stenoptilia mengeli and Stenoptilia islandicus.[3]
References
- ^ mothphotographersgroup
- ^ The pterophoridae of North America
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Vargas, Hector (2020). "Open-access A new species of Stenoptilia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) associated with Neobartsia peruviana (Orobanchaceae) in the Andes of northern Chile". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 64 (2). doi:10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2019-0028.