Assara
| Assara | |
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| Assara holophragma imago | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
Assara is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (Pyralidae).[2] They are part of the tribe Phycitini within the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae.
Selected species
- Assara albicostalis
- Assara aterpes
- Assara balanophorae
- Assara cataxutha
- Assara chionopleura
- Assara conicolella
- Assara decipula Clarke, 1986
- Assara exiguella
- Assara formosana
- Assara funerella
- Assara halmophila (Meyrick, 1929)
- Assara holophragma
- Assara hoeneella
- Assara holophragma
- Assara incredibilis
- Assara inouei
- Assara ketjila Roesler & Küppers, 1981
- Assara korbi (Caradja, 1910) (from China)
- Assara leucarma
- Assara linjiangensis
- Assara melanomita
- Assara microdoxa
- Assara murasei
- Assara odontosema
- Assara pallidella
- Assara pinivora
- Assara proleuca
- Assara quadriguttella
- Assara semifictile
- Assara seminivale (from Australia)
- Assara subarcuella
- Assara terebrella (Zincken, 1818) (from China)
- Assara tuberculosa
- Assara tumidula
- Assara turciella
Footnotes
- ^ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela (2009)
- ^ "Assara Walker, 1863". Global Lepidoptera Index 1.1.25.021. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ^ Clarke (1986), and see references in Savela (2009)
References
Media related to Assara at Wikimedia Commons
- Clarke, John Frederick Gates (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine (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.