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Pterophorus legrandi

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

Pterophorus legrandi is a species in the family Pterophoridae, order Lepidoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Guinea.

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Quick facts about Pterophorus legrandi

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Pterophorus legrandi live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Pterophorus legrandi is listed for 1 country.

Guinea
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Guinea

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Pterophorus legrandi endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Pterophorus legrandi classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyPterophoridae
  6. genusPterophorus
  7. SpeciesPterophorus legrandi Gibeaux, 1992

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Pterophorus legrandi

Other species in the same genus Pterophorus.

White plume

Pterophorus pentadactyla

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Araliad plume

Pterophorus monospilalis

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Pterophorus legrandi live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Pterophorus legrandi for 1 country: Guinea. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Pterophorus legrandi?

Pterophorus legrandi (Pterophorus legrandi) belongs to the family Pterophoridae in the order Lepidoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Pterophorus legrandi (Pterophorus legrandi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pterophorus-legrandi

MLA

“Pterophorus legrandi (Pterophorus legrandi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pterophorus-legrandi.

BibTeX
@misc{pterophorus_legrandi_2026,
  title = {Pterophorus legrandi (Pterophorus legrandi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pterophorus-legrandi},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}