Nephopterygia

Nephopterygia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Nephopterygia
Amsel, 1965
Species: N. austeritella
Binomial name
Nephopterygia austeritella
Amsel, 1965

Nephopterygia is a monotypic snout moth genus[1] described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1965. Its only species, N. austeritella, described by the same author, is found on the Canary Islands, as well as in Sudan and Egypt.[2]

References

  1. "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  2. New Data for Pyraloidea from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) Including a Species New to Science (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) Archived 2012-09-25 at the Wayback Machine.


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