''Wheeleria'' 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 in the family Pterophoridae.

Species

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Wheeleria elbursi ''Wheeleria elbursi'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Iran (including the Elburs Mountains) and Tukey. The wingspan is . The wings, head, thorax The thorax or chest is a part of the anatomy of humans, mammals, and other ...

'' Arenberger, 1981 *''

Wheeleria ivae ''Wheeleria ivae'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from former Yugoslavia, Asia Minor, Syria and Lebanon. The larvae feed on ''Stachys iva ''Stachys'' is a genus of plants, one of the largest in the mint family Lamiaceae ...

'' (Kasy, 1960) *''

Wheeleria kabuli ''Wheeleria kabuli'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the ...

'' (Arenberger, 1981) *''

Wheeleria kasachstanica ''Wheeleria kasachstanica'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. ...

'' Arenberger, 1995 *''

Wheeleria leptopsamma ''Wheeleria leptopsamma'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest c ...

'' (Meyrick, 1925) *''

Wheeleria lyrae ''Wheeleria lyrae'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is endemic to Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and i ...

'' (Arenberger, 1983) *''

Wheeleria obsoletus ''Wheeleria obsoletus'' is a moth of the family Plume moth, Pterophoridae. It is found in France, Italy, Austria, Sardinia, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania ...

'' (Zeller, 1841) *''

Wheeleria parviflorellus ''Wheeleria parviflorellus'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Afghanistan. It was described by Ernst Arenberger in 1981. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip ...

'' (Arenberger, 1981) *''

Wheeleria phlomidis '' Wheeleria phlomidis'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in southern and central Russia, Asia Minor, Iran, Syria, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Repub ...

'' (Staudinger, 1870) *''

Wheeleria raphiodactyla ''Wheeleria raphiodactyla'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Portugal, Spain and France. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For examp ...

'' (Rebel, 1900) *'' Wheeleria sobeidae'' (Arenberger, 1981) *''

Wheeleria spilodactylus ''Wheeleria spilodactylus'' (the horehound plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae, first described by John Curtis in 1827. It is found in South-Western and Central Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and North Africa. It has ...

'' (Curtis, 1827)

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Pterophorini Moth genera Taxa named by J. W. Tutt {{Pterophoridae-stub