Polydactylos

Short description: Monotypic moth genus in family Drepanidae

Polydactylos

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Drepanidae
Subfamily:  | Thyatirinae
Genus:  | Polydactylos
Mell, 1942
Species:  |

P. aprilinus

Binomial name
Polydactylos aprilinus

Mell, 1942

Polydactylos is a monotypic moth genus in the family Drepanidae erected by Rudolf Mell in 1942.[1] Its only species, Polydactylos aprilinus, was described in the same paper.[2] It is found in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang, Guangdong and Hainan and in Vietnam.[3]

## References

1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Polydactylos". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=57570.
2. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Polydactylos aprilinus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=57571.
3. ↑ Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3941.1.1.

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