Ref: MBGBI4.1 where treated as Subfamily Stathmopodinae of Family Oecophoridae
Features of Stathmopoda given in MBGBI (not clear whether these are also features of Pachyrhabda)
Head smooth-scaled; Ocelli absent; Antenna ciliate in male, simple in female; scape without pecten; Labial palps long, slender, curved, ascending; S2 smooth-scaled; S3 = S2 in length; Forewing elongate; V1a&1b furcate, V7&8 stalked, V7 to costa; Hindwing narrowly lanceolate; cilia 4x width of wing; Hindtibia with rings of erect hair-scales
Features of Stathmopoda given in MBGBI (not clear whether these are also features of Pachyrhabda)
Head smooth-scaled; Ocelli absent; Antenna ciliate in male, simple in female; scape without pecten; Labial palps long, slender, curved, ascending; S2 smooth-scaled; S3 = S2 in length; Forewing elongate; V1a&1b furcate, V7&8 stalked, V7 to costa; Hindwing narrowly lanceolate; cilia 4x width of wing; Hindtibia with rings of erect hair-scales
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Pachyrhabda
001 Pachyrhabda steropodes
(Dorset Signal) Apr-May, (Sep); Soft Shield-fern (Polystichum setiferum) First found in GB in Carmathenshire 2006 Added to British list from Abbotsbury, Dorset 2010 Found in several locations in Devon 2020 (Atropos 66 p47, 67 p13) |
Stathmopoda
002 Stathmopoda pedella
(Alder Signal) 
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