Yponomeuta puncticornis, Walsingham, 1891

Agassiz, David J. L., 2019, The Yponomeutidae of the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea), Zootaxa 4600 (1), pp. 1-69 : 7

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4600.1.1
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scientific name	Yponomeuta puncticornis
status

Treatment

Y. puncticornis species group

This group includes species placed in Teinoptila by Gershenson & Ulenberg (1998). The adults have comparatively broad forewings and the male genitalia usually have the sacculus developed which sometimes connects the valvae to each other.

References

Gershenson, Z. S. & Ulenberg, S. A. (1998) The Yponomeutinae (Lepidoptera) of the World exclusive of the Americas. Royal Netherlands Academy, Amsterdam, 202 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Yponomeutidae
Genus	Yponomeuta

Specimens