Nippoptilia spinosa

Nippoptilia spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Nippoptilia
Species: N. spinosa
Binomial name
Nippoptilia spinosa
Yano, 1963

Nippoptilia spinosa is a moth of the Pterophoridae family that is known from Papua New Guinea.[1]

The length of the forewings is about 7.2 millimetres (0.28 in) for females and 7.5 millimetres (0.30 in) for males.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Review of the Pterophoridae from New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Lepidoptera)
  2. ↑ Notes On South Pacific Pterophoridae

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