Xyrosaris
Xyrosaris is a genus of moths of the family Yponomeutidae.[1][2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Subfamily: | Yponomeutinae |
| Genus: | Xyrosaris Meyrick, 1907 |
| Type species | |
| Xyrosaris dryopa Meyrick, 1907 | |
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This genus is allied to Zelleria but distinct by the long antennae, peculiar palpi and scale-tufts of forewings.[3]
Species
- Xyrosaris acroxutha - Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
- Xyrosaris campsiptila - Meyrick, (from Sri Lanka)
- Xyrosaris celastrella - Kearfott, 1903
- Xyrosaris dryopa - Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)
- Xyrosaris lichneuta - Meyrick, 1918 (China, Japan, Korea, Russia)
- Xyrosaris lirinopa - Meyrick, 1922 (from China)
- Xyrosaris maligna - Meyrick, 1907 (from India/Sri Lanka)
- Xyrosaris melanopsamma - Meyrick, 1931 (from Japan)
- Xyrosaris mnesicentra - Meyrick, 1913 (from British Guyana)
- Xyrosaris obtorta - Meyrick, 1924
- Xyrosaris ochroplagiata - Braun, 1918 (from N.America)
- Xyrosaris secreta - Meyrick, 1912 (from South Africa)
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Xyrosaris". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
- NCBI taxonomy database. ID: 263936. [accessed 15-09-2009]
- Meyrick, E. 1907. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 47-150: p.71
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