Assara

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Pyraloidea

Familia: Pyralidae
Subfamilia: Phycitinae
Tribus: Phycitini
Genus: Assara
Species: A. conicolella – A. decipula – A. formosana – A. funerella – A. halmophila – A. hoeneella – A. inouei – A. korbi – A. murasei – A. pallidella – A. pinivora – A. subterebrella – A. terebrella – A. tuberculosa
Name

Assara Walker, 1863

Type species: Assara albicostalis Walker, 1863 by monotypy
Synonyms

Cateremna Meyrick, 1882 (synonymized by Roesler 1966: 152).
Samoilovia Kirpichnikova, 2001 (synonymized by Streltzov, 2013: 288).

References

Choi, H.-Y. ; M.-K. Paek & Y.-S. Bae, 1998: Taxonomic notes on nine species of the tribe Phycitini (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from Korea (1). Insecta Koreana 15: 23–39.
Roesler, R.-U. 1966. Die deutschen Arten des Homoeosoma-Ephestia Komplexes (Lepidoptera, Phycitinae). Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 56: 104-160. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Streltzov, A.N. 2013. A review of the species of the genus Assara Walker, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Phycitinae) from the south of the Russian Far East. Amurian zoological journal V(3): 288-290. Full article (PDF).Reference page.
Yamanaka, H. 1980a. Descriptions of Two New Species of Eurhodope and Synonymic Notes on Two Known Species Belonging to Eurhodope and Assara from Japan (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 31(1-2): 66-73. Abstract and full article CiNii (PDF). Reference page.
Yamanaka, H., 1994: New and unrecorded species of the Phycitinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) from Japan. Tinea 14 (1): 33–41.
Yamanaka, H., 2008: A new species of the genus Assara Walker from Japan (Pyralidae: Phycitinae), Tinea 20 (3): 170–172.
Yoshiyasu, Y., 1991: A New Species of Assara (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) Associted with the Aphid Gall. Tyô to Ga 42 (4): 261–269.

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:[2]

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 (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.