Palpifer is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae described by George Hampson in 1893. There are 10 described species found in south and east Asia and parts of Mexico.
Species of the genus possess large rounded and ascending palpi. Antennae short and setiferous (bristly). Legs hairy with spurs absent on tibia. Forewings without a bar between vein 1b and the median nervure. Veins 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked in both wings. Veinlets in cell forked.[1]
^Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Palpifer hopponis is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Taiwan. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths...
Palpifer umbrinus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in India. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths...
Palpifer falkneri is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Nepal. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths...
of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including Palpifer sexnotatus and Palpifer sordida. Pollinated flowers usually each develop into a globose...
Palpifer tavoyanus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Myanmar. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths...
Palpifer taprobanus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1887 and is found in Sri Lanka. The species was once classified...
Palpifer pellicia is a moth of the family Hepialidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1905. It is found in India. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden...
Palpifer madurensis is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Madura, from which its species epithet is derived. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden...
Palpifer murinus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in India. The food plant for this species is Colocasia. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden...
Palpifer sordida is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen in 1900. It is found in Java, Indonesia. Food...
plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Palpifer murinus and Palpifer sexnotatus. C. esculenta and other members of the genus are...
Family Seiodidae Kethley, 1977 (1 genus, 1 species) Other Meliponopus palpifer Fain & Flechtmann, 1985 has not yet been placed into a family. Beaulieu...
somewhat larger and cylindrical, and is about as long as it is wide. The palpifer has no appendage. Tragosoma depsarium has a Palearctic distribution and...
transverse and longer than the first segment. The palpifer is sclerotised and fused with the opposite palpifer to form a complete ring. The submentum is entirely...
Alexander, 1925 M. pallidus (Philippi, 1866) M. palomaricus Alexander, 1947 M. palpifer Savchenko, 1976 M. paludicola Alexander, 1929 M. panchrestus Alexander...
palmerae James, 1943 i c g Culicoides palpalis Macfie, 1948 c g Culicoides palpifer Gupta & Ghosh, 1956 c g Culicoides palpisimilis Wirth & Hubert, 1989 c...
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