''Penicillifera'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s of the family
Bombycidae
The Bombycidae are a family of moths. The best-known species is ''Bombyx mori'' (Linnaeus) or silkworm, native to northern China and domesticated for millennia. Another well-known species is ''Bombyx mandarina'', also native to Asia.
Taxonomy
Th ...
. The genus was erected by Wolfgang Dierl in 1978.
Selected species
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Penicillifera apicalis
''Penicillifera apicalis'', the Oriental white silk-moth is a moth of the family Bombycidae first described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found from the north-eastern parts of the Himalaya to Sundaland and the Philippines
The Philipp ...
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(Walker, 1862)
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Penicillifera infuscata''
Dierl, 1978
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Penicillifera lactea''
(Hutton, 1865)
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Penicillifera tamsi''
(Lemée, 1950)
References
Bombycidae
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