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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Pterophorinae |
| Tribe: | Pterophorini |
| Genus: | Merrifieldia Tutt, 19051 |
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, 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 (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.32
References
References
- Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Genus: Merrifieldia Tutt, 1905". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Species: Merrifieldia oligocenicus (Bigot, Nel & Nel, 1986)". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- 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].