Stenoptilia mengeli

Species of plume moth

Stenoptilia mengeli

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Pterophoridae
Genus:  | Stenoptilia
Species:  |

S. mengeli

Binomial name
Stenoptilia mengeli

Fernald, 1898[1]

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]

## References

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1. ^ mothphotographersgroup
2. ^ The pterophoridae of North America This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Taxon identifiers

Stenoptilia mengeli|

* Wikidata: Q7607788
* Wikispecies: Stenoptilia mengeli
* BOLD: 123048
* CoL: 524KS
* EoL: 166076
* GBIF: 1858834
* IRMNG: 10610660
* LepIndex: 1634
* MONA: 6146
* NatureServe: 2.945580
* NCBI: 1790219
* Open Tree of Life: 3091503

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