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
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

Selected species edit

Species of Assara include:[2]

Footnotes edit

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

References edit

  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.