Pterothrixidia rufella

Pterothrixidia rufella

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae

Pterothrixidia is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1954. Its one species, described by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1836, is Pterothrixidia rufella. It is found in France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, the Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Iran.

Distribution

Pterothrixidia rufella — (c) Roman, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Roman · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Switzerland · 7France · 4Italy · 3Spain · 2

Sources and credits

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Pterothrixidia rufella

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