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Palpifer

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Hepialidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Insecta

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Palpifer is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 10 described species found in south and east Asia and parts of Mexico.

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Species of the genus possess large rounded and ascending palpi. Antennae short and setiferous. Legs hairy with spurs absent on tibia. Fore wings without a bar between vein 1b and the median nervure. Veins 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked in both wings. Veinlets in cell forked.

Species

  • Palpifer falkneri - Nepal
  • Palpifer hopponis - Taiwan
  • Palpifer madurensis - Madura
  • Palpifer murinus - India
  • Food plant: Colocasia
  • Palpifer pellicia - India
  • Palpifer sexnotatus - India/Japan
  • Recorded food plants: Amorphophallus, Colocasia
  • Palpifer sordida - Java
  • Recorded food plants: Alocasia, Amorphophallus, Dioscorea
  • Palpifer taprobanus - Sri Lanka
  • Palpifer tavoyanus - Myanmar
  • Palpifer umbrinus - India

    • References

    Palpifer Wikipedia
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