Invertebrate Ireland

Classification:

Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order LEPIDOPTERA
Suborder
Superfamily PTEROPHOROIDEA
Family PTEROPHORIDAE
Subfamily PTEROPHORINAE
Genus Merrifeldia

CITATION

Bond, K.G.M., Nash, R. & O’Connor, J.P. 2006. An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) , The Irish Biogeograghical Society and the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
http://www.habitas.org.uk/InvertebrateIreland/species.asp?item=8944

IRISH STATUS	See Explanatory Text
Accepted

NORTHERN IRELAND	REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
No Records	No Records

STATUS OF NAME

Current name

SYNONYMS

Merrifeldia fuscolimbatus (Duponchel, 1844)

VALIDATING LITERATURE

Bond, K.G.M., Nash, R., O'Connor, J.P. 2006, An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) , The Irish Biogeographical Society,

Bradley, J.D.. 1953, Microlepidoptera collected in the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland in 1952, including a plume moth new to the British list, Ent. Gaz., 4: 135-140

LITERATURE FOR IDENTIFICATION

LITERATURE FOR TAXONOMIC CHANGE

LITERATURE FOR ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION

LOCATION OF VOUCHER

EXPLANATORY TEXT

New placement. Previously in Pterophorus Schaffer, 1766.

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