''Gillmeria'' is a genus of
moth
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s in the family
Pterophoridae
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblag ...
. The genus was described by the
English
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schoolteacher and
entomologist
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,
James William Tutt in 1905.
Species
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Gillmeria albertae''
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Gillmeria armeniaca''
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Gillmeria irakella''
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Gillmeria macrornis''
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Gillmeria melanoschista''
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Gillmeria miantodactylus''
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Gillmeria omissalis''
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Gillmeria pallidactyla''
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Gillmeria rhusiodactyla''
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Gillmeria scutata''
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Gillmeria stenoptiloides''
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Gillmeria tetradactyla''
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Gillmeria vesta''
References
Platyptiliini
Moth genera
Taxa named by J. W. Tutt
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