| 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 | |
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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:
- 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)
- 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.
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