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Assara

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Assara
Assara holophragma imago
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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

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Species of Assara include:[2]

Footnotes

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

References

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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-speciesAssara. Version of 5 November 2004. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  • Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life FormsAssara. Version of 9 April 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2011.