Triscaedecia dactyloptera

Triscaedecia dactyloptera is a moth of the family Alucitidae, described by George Hampson in 1905.[1][2] It is larger than the other described species in the genus Triscaedecia (26 mm wingspan) and has only been recorded from Sri Lanka.[3][4]

Triscaedecia dactyloptera
Adult specimen of Triscaedecia dactyloptera
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T. dactyloptera
Binomial name
Triscaedecia dactyloptera
Hampson, 1905

References

  1. Hampson, G.F., 1905: On three remarkable new genera of Microlepidoptera, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905, II, 245–249. BHL.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Triscaedecia dactyloptera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  3. Ustjuzhanin, P., Kovtunovich, V. & Hobern, D., 2019: A taxonomic review of the genus Triscaedecia (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) in the world fauna, Zootaxa 4571 (3): 373–382, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.5.
  4. "Triscaedecia dactyloptera Hampson, 1905". Plazi TreatmentBank. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.


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