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Pterophoridae

Pterophoridae are represented in all the main zoogeographical regions, with about 1100 species (Gielis 1993: 28).
Identification: Adamczewski 1951, Arenberger 1977, 1995, 2002, Beirne 1952, Bigot 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963a, b, 1964, 1966, Buszko 1979, 1986, Gibeaux & Nel 1991, Gielis 1996, Gozmány 1963, Hannemann 1977, Janmoulle 1959, Kuchlein & Gielis 1982, Razowski 1988, van Deurs 1948, Zagulyaev 1997a.
Nomenclature according to Fauna Europaea.
Species in Belgium: 42.
WV = West-Vlaanderen LI = Limburg NA = Namur
OV = Oost-Vlaanderen BR = Brabant LG = Liège
AN = Antwerpen HA = Hainaut LX = Luxembourg
= before 1980 = 1980 – 2004 = after 2004
Species WV OV AN LI BR HA NA LG LX
Adaina microdactyla (Hübner, 1813)
Agdistis bennetii (Curtis, 1833)
                
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Hübner, 1813)
    
Buckleria paludum (Zeller, 1841)
     L        
Buszkoiana capnodactylus (Zeller, 1841)                
Capperia britanniodactylus (Gregson, 1867)
= teucrii (Jordan, 1869) 		         
Capperia celeusi (Frey, 1886)
                
Capperia fusca (O. Hofmann, 1898)
                
Capperia loranus (Fuchs, 1895)
                
Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
         L
Crombrugghia distans (Zeller, 1847)
                
Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Gillmeria ochrodactyla ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= tetradactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) 		 
Gillmeria pallidactyla (Haworth, 1811)
= bertrami (Rössler, 1864) 		   
Hellinsia carphodactyla (Hübner, 1813)
            
Hellinsia didactylites (Ström, 1783)
= scarodactyla (Hübner, 1813) 		     
Hellinsia distinctus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
                
Hellinsia lienigianus (Zeller, 1852)
   L      
Hellinsia tephradactyla (Hübner, 1813)
                
Marasmarcha lunaedactyla (Haworth, 1811)
= phaeodactyla (Hübner, 1813) 		         
Merrifieldia baliodactylus (Zeller, 1841)
            
Merrifieldia leucodactyla ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
              
Merrifieldia tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
= tetradactylus (Linnaeus, 1758)
= fuscolimbatus (Duponchel, 1844) 		               
Oidaematophorus lithodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)
= lithoxylodactylus (Duponchel, 1840) 		       
Oxyptilus chrysodactyla ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= hieracii (Zeller, 1841) 		       
Oxyptilus parvidactyla (Haworth, 1811)
= obscurus (Zeller, 1841)
= hemididactylus (De Sélys-Longchamps, 1844) 		            L  
Oxyptilus pilosellae (Zeller, 1841)
    
Platyptilia calodactyla (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
= zetterstedtii (Zeller, 1841) 		      L      
Platyptilia farfarellus Zeller, 1867
                
Platyptilia gonodactyla ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= megadactyla ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= farfarellus sensu auct., nec Zeller, 1867 		   
Platyptilia nemoralis Zeller, 1841
        
Pselnophorus heterodactyla (Müller, 1764)                
Pterophorus pentadactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Stenoptilia aridus (Zeller, 1847)                
Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla (Scopoli, 1763)
= plagiodactylus Stainton, 1851
= picardi Gibeaux & Nel, 1986		 L     L  
Stenoptilia graphodactyla (Treitschke, 1833)
       L      
Stenoptilia pelidnodactyla (Stein, 1837)
     L L      
Stenoptilia pneumonanthes (Büttner, 1880)
                
Stenoptilia pterodactyla (Linnaeus, 1761)
= ptilodactyla (Hübner, 1813)
= paludicola (Wallengren, 1862) 		  L  
Stenoptilia stigmatodactylus (Zeller, 1852)
                
Stenoptilia zophodactylus (Duponchel, 1840)
     L      
Wheeleria spilodactylus (Curtis, 1827)
                
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