Gillmeria stenoptiloides explained

Gillmeria stenoptiloides is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Japan (Honshu), north-east China, Mongolia, and Russia (where it is found in the North Ural, South Siberia, Kamchatka & Russian Far East). It was described by Ivan Nikolayevich Filipjev in 1927.^[1]

The species has dark red-brown wings.

Notes and References

1. Fazekas . Imre . Federmotten aus der Mongolei, Russland, der Türkei, der Balkanhalbinsel und Afrika, mit Beschreibung neuer Arten (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae) . Five new species, distribution records of plume moths from Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, Balkans and the Africa (Microlepidoptera: Pterophoridae) . Folia comloensis . 2003 . 12 . 5–24 . de .