Placosaris

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Placosaris
213-Placosaris triticalis (Kenrick, 1907).JPG
Placosaris triticalis, adult, illustrated in [2]: pl. 3 fig. 213 
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Pyraustinae
Genus: Placosaris
Meyrick, 1897[1]
Synonyms
  • Xanthelectris Meyrick, 1938

Placosaris is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Pyraustinae of the family Crambidae. It is placed in the tribe .[3]

The genus currently comprises 25 species, which are exclusively distributed in the Indomalayan realm and New Guinea.[1] A taxonomic revision from 1970 covers the species distributed in Temperate East Asia.[4]

Species[]

Placosaris leucula species group:[4]

Placosaris intensalis species group:[4]

Unplaced in any species group:

References[]

  1. ^ a b Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2020). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". www.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  2. ^ Kenrick, George H. (1907). "A list of moths of the family Pyralidae collected by A. E. Pratt in British New Guinea in 1902–03, with descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London. 1907: 68–87.
  3. ^ Mally, Richard; Hayden, James E.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Nuss, Matthias (2019). "The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN 1863-7221. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-04. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  4. ^ a b c Munroe, Eugene G.; Mutuura, Akira (1970). "Contributions to a study of the Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) of Temperate East Asia X". The Canadian Entomologist. 102 (12): 1489–1507. doi:10.4039/Ent1021489-12.


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