Assara

Assara
Assara holophragma imago
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Subfamily: Phycitinae
Tribe: Phycitini
Genus: Assara
Walker, 1863
Type species
Assara albicostalis
Walker, 1863
Synonyms

[1]
Cateremna Meyrick, 1882

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.

Selected species

Species of Assara include:[2]

Footnotes

  1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela (2009)
  2. Clarke (1986), and see references in Savela (2009)

References

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