Assara
Assara is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (Pyralidae). They are part of the tribe Phycitini within the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae.
| Assara | |
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| Assara holophragma imago | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Tribe: | Phycitini |
| Genus: | Assara Walker, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Assara albicostalis Walker, 1863 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cateremna Meyrick, 1882 | |
Selected species
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Footnotes
- Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela (2009)
- Clarke (1986), and see references in Savela (2009)
References
- Clarke, John Frederick Gates (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext (214 MB!)
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Assara. Version of 5 November 2004. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms – Assara. Version of 9 April 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
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