Palpifer sordida

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Palpifer sordida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Palpifer
Species:
P. sordida
Binomial name
Palpifer sordida
Synonyms
  • Palpifer notatus Pfitzner in Pfitzner and Gaede, 1933

Palpifer sordida is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen in 1900. It is found in Java, Indonesia. Food plants for this species include Alocasia, Amorphophallus, and Dioscorea.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera )" (PDF). Journal of Natural History. 34 (6): 823–878. doi:10.1080/002229300299282. S2CID 86004391.