Merrifieldia

Merrifieldia
Merrifieldia species
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Subfamily: Pterophorinae
Tribe: Pterophorini
Genus: Merrifieldia
Tutt, 1905

Merrifieldia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. It has an Old World distribution, with species known from Asia, Africa and Europe.

Species

As of version 1.1.23.125, the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus Merrifieldia:

Fossil species

Merrifieldia oligocenicus

This species was originally described as Pterophorus oligocenicus, and its authors associated it with what was at the time the tridactyla-spicidactylus group within genus Pterophorus. Although these species were transferred to Merrifieldia as a result of the 1996 revision of Pterophorus sensu lato by Cees Gielis, Pterophorus oligocenicus remained within Pterophorus until it was transferred to Merrifieldia in 2012 by Sohn et al.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Genus: Merrifieldia Tutt, 1905". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  2. 1 2 Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Species: Merrifieldia oligocenicus (Bigot, Nel & Nel, 1986)". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Labandeira, Conrad; Davis, Donald; Mitter, Charles (30 April 2012). "An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world". Zootaxa. 3286 (1): 59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1. Retrieved 15 May 2023.