Merrifieldia

Merrifieldia
Merrifieldia species
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Subfamily:	Pterophorinae
Tribe:	Pterophorini
Genus:	Merrifieldia Tutt, 1905[1]

Merrifieldia is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae. It has an Old World distribution, with species known from Asia, Africa and Europe.[1]

Species

As of version 1.1.23.125^[update], the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus Merrifieldia:[1]

• Merrifieldia alaica (Caradja, 1920)
• Merrifieldia arenbergeri Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2022
• Merrifieldia aurea Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2015
• Merrifieldia baliodactylus (Zeller, 1841)
• Merrifieldia brandti (Arenberger, 1981)
• Merrifieldia bystropogonis (Walsingham, 1908)
• Merrifieldia calcarius (Lederer, 1870)
• Merrifieldia cana Arenberger, 1990
• Merrifieldia caspius (Lederer, 1870)
• Merrifieldia chordodactylus (Staudinger, 1859)
• Merrifieldia deprinsi Arenberger, 1990
• Merrifieldia diwani (Arenberger, 1981)
• Merrifieldia farsi (Arenberger, 1981)
• Merrifieldia hedemanni (Rebel, 1896)
• Merrifieldia huberti Arenberger, 1999
• Merrifieldia improvisa Arenberger, 2001
• Merrifieldia innae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2011
• Merrifieldia leucodactyla (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
• Merrifieldia lonnvei Gielis, 2011
• Merrifieldia malacodactylus (Zeller, 1847)
• Merrifieldia nigrocostata Gibeaux, 1997
• Merrifieldia particiliata (Walsingham, 1908)
• Merrifieldia peyroni Bigot & Picard, 2004
• Merrifieldia probolias (Meyrick, 1891)
• Merrifieldia renatae Skyva & Elsner, 2007
• Merrifieldia semiodactylus (Mann, 1855)
• Merrifieldia tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fossil species

Merrifieldia oligocenicus

• †Merrifieldia oligocenicus (Bigot, Nel & Nel, 1986), formerly Pterophorus oligocenicus,[2] from the late Oligocene–early Miocene boundary.[3]

This species was originally described as Pterophorus oligocenicus, and its authors associated it with what was at the time the tridactyla-spicidactylus group within genus Pterophorus.[3] Although these species were transferred to Merrifieldia as a result of the 1996 revision of Pterophorus sensu lato by Cees Gielis, Pterophorus oligocenicus remained within Pterophorus until it was transferred to Merrifieldia in 2012 by Sohn et al.[3][2]

References

1. Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Genus: Merrifieldia Tutt, 1905". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
2. Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Species: Merrifieldia oligocenicus (Bigot, Nel & Nel, 1986)". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
3. Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Labandeira, Conrad; Davis, Donald; Mitter, Charles (30 April 2012). "An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world". Zootaxa. 3286 (1): 59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3286.1.1. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

• Arenberg, A., 1999: Pterophoridae aus Zentralasien und angrenzenden Territorien.- 2. Teil (Lepidoptera). Quadrifina 2: 215–226. Full article: [1].