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Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyAlucitidae
Observations recorded50,481
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 27
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Alucitidae
- Collections
- GMNH, MSU, USNM, MISSA, AM, UWM
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, United States, Samoa, Panama, Bolivia, Australia, Micronesia, Federated States Of, Colombia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Alucitoidea
- Image
- Alucita hexadactyla01.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Alucitidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Alucitidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Alucitidae
- taxon common name
- fingermøll
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Alucitidae or many-plumed moths are a family of moths with unusually modified wings. Both fore- and hind-wings consist of about six rigid spines, from which radiate flexible bristles creating a structure similar to a bird's feather.
This is a small family, with about a global total of 210 species described to date (though it is likely that some undescribed species remain to be discovered). They are found mostly in temperate to subtropical (but not tropical) regions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alucitidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.