Assara Explained

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:^[1]

• 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

References

• (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext (214 MB!)
• (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species  - Assara. Version of 5 November 2004. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
• (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms  - Assara. Version of 9 April 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2011.

Notes and References

1. Clarke (1986), and see references in Savela (2009)