Oxyptilus pilosellae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pterophoridae
- Genus
- Oxyptilus
- Species
- Oxyptilus pilosellae
- Scientific Name
- Oxyptilus pilosellae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Oxyptilus pilosellae
Oxyptilus pilosellae (hieracium plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1841. It is found in most of Europe, east to Russia and Asia Minor. It was released as a biological control agent for Hieracium in New Zealand in 1998.
...Oxyptilus pilosellae in languages:
- Bokmål
- rødbrun svevefjærmøll
- Czech
- pernatuška chlupáčková
- Dutch
- Muizenoorvedermot
- English
- Hieracium plume moth
- Finnish
- huopakeltanosulkanen
- Swedish
- gråfibblefjädermott
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Oxyptilus buvati
- Oxyptilus causodes
- Oxyptilus chrysodactyla
- Oxyptilus delawaricus
- Oxyptilus distans
- Oxyptilus eleanerae
- Oxyptilus epidectes
- Oxyptilus erebites
- Oxyptilus ericetorum
- Oxyptilus erythrodactylus
- Oxyptilus insomnis
- Oxyptilus kollari
- Oxyptilus lantoscanus
- Oxyptilus parvidactyla
- Oxyptilus pilosellae
- Oxyptilus regulus
- Oxyptilus reichli
- Oxyptilus scutifer
- Oxyptilus secutor
- Oxyptilus variegatus
- Oxyptilus vibrans




































