Stenoptilia leuconephes

Stenoptilia leuconephes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Stenoptilia
Species:
S. leuconephes
Binomial name
Stenoptilia leuconephes
(Meyrick, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Mimeseoptilus leuconephes Meyrick, 1886

Stenoptilia leuconephes is an Australian alpine moth species in the family Pterophoridae described in 1885 and published in 1886 by Edward Meyrick[1] from a specimen collected on Mount Kosciuszko in January. It is found in Australia, including Tasmania.

References

  1. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (March 1886). "On the classification of the Pterophoridae". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1886: 1–21. Retrieved 11 April 2026.