Pterophorid

Quick meaning: Pterophorid is a noun meaning (entomology) Any moth of the family Pterophoridae.

Meaning

(entomology) Any moth of the family Pterophoridae.

More Meanings

1. (entomology) Relating to the Pterophoridae family of moths.

Example Sentences

No kinematic adaptations particular to the extraordinary wing structure of pterophorids are evident, and adjacent wing lobes appear to form a continuous surface (Norberg, 1972b).

Of these, only one pterophorid appeared to probe inside flowers from both species, starting on P. dilatata then moving to P. stricta; however, no pollinia removal or transfer could be seen.

Five videos showed insects moving between both P. dilatata and P. stricta: two with syrphid flies that hovered near, or landed on, flowers of both species, and three showed pterophorid moths landing on both species.

The realized sample sizes were far lower (64 and 95, respectively); most of the tagged flowers were not recovered in 2016 due to herbivory from an outbreak of Heliothis phloxiphaga, the most common herbivore (LoPresti et al., 2015), as well as consumption by brush rabbits (Sylvilagus bachmani), and a small pterophorid caterpillar (probably Amblyptilia pica).

Word Forms

• pterophorids

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pterophore, phorid, oecophorid, micropterigid, phyllodont, pyralid.

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