Prays

Prays
	Prays ruficeps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Praydidae
Genus:	Prays; Hübner, 1825
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Pepilla Guenée, 1845;

Prays is a genus of moths of the family Praydidae, formerly assigned to (depending on the author) Plutellidae or Yponomeutidae.^[2]

Selected species[edit]

Prays acmonias - Meyrick, 1914 (from India)
Prays alpha - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
Prays amblystola - Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
Prays armynoti Bippus, 2020 (from Réunion)
Prays atomocella - (Dyar, 1902) (from Texas)
Prays autocasis - Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)
Prays beta - Moriuti, 1977 (Japan, Russia, South Korea)
Prays caenobitella - Hübner, 1816
Prays calycias - Meyrick, 1907 (from Queensland)
Prays chrysophyllae - Silvestri, 1915 (from Eritrea)
Prays cingulata - H.L. Yu & H.H. Li, 2004 (from China)
Prays citri - Milliére, 1873 (worldwide distribution)
Prays curalis - Meyrick, 1914 (from India)
Prays curulis - Meyrick, 1914 (from India)
Prays delta - Moriuti, 1977 (from China, South Korea, Japan)
Prays ducalis - Meyrick, (from Sri Lanka)
Prays endocarpa - Meyrick, 1919 (Indonesia/Malaysia)
Prays endolemma - Diakonoff, 1967 (from the Philippines)
Prays epsilon - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
Prays erebitis - Meyrick, (from India, Oriental)
Prays fraxinella - Bjerkander, 1784 (from Europe)
Prays friesei - Klimesch, 1992 (from Canary islands)
Prays fulvocanella - Walsingham, 1907
Prays galapagosella - B. Landry & J.F. Landry, 1998 (Galapagos islands)
Prays gamma - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
Prays ignota - J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 (from Polynesia)
Prays inconspicua - H.L. Yu & H.H. Li, 2004 (from China)
Prays inscripta - Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)
Prays iota - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
Prays kappa - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
Prays kalligraphos - J.C. Sohn & C.S. Wu, 2011 (from China)
Prays lambda - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
Prays liophaea - Meyrick, 1927
Prays lobata - H.L. Yu & H.H. Li, 2004 (from China)
Prays nephelomima - Meyrick, 1907
Prays oleae - Bernard, 1788 (from Europe)
Prays oleaceoides Gibeaux, 1985 (from Madagascar)
Prays oliviella - Boyer, 1837
Prays omicron - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
Prays parilis - Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
Prays peperitis - Meyrick, 1907 (from Sri Lanka)
Prays peregrina - Agassiz, 2007 (from England)
Prays ruficeps - Heinemann, 1854 (from Europe)
Prays sparsipunctella - Turati, 1924 (from Libya)
Prays stratella - Zeller, 1877
Prays sublevatella - Viette, 1957 (from Réunion)
Prays temulenta - Meyrick, 1910 (from Himalaya)
Prays tineiformis - J.C. Sohn & C.S. Wu, 2011 (from China)
Prays tyrastis - Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)
Prays xeroloxa - Meyrick, 1935 (from Java/Indonesia)

References[edit]

^ Prays at funet
^ Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald; Landry, Jean-François; Zwick, Andreas; Cummings, Michael P. (2013-01-31). "A Molecular Phylogeny for Yponomeutoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Ditrysia) and Its Implications for Classification, Biogeography and the Evolution of Host Plant Use". PLOS ONE. 8 (1): e55066. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055066. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3561450. PMID 23383061.

Agassiz, D., 2007: Prays peregrina sp. n. (Yponomeutidae) a presumed adventive species in Greater London. Nota Lepidopterologica 30 (2): 407–410. Full article: [1].
Landry, B. & J.-F. Landry, 1998: Yponomeutidae of the Galapagos Islands, with description of a new species of Prays (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 9 (1): 31–40.Full article: [2]
Sohn, J.-C. & C.-S. Wu, 2011, A taxonomic review of Prays Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Praydidae) China with descriptions of two new species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 154 (1): 25–32.

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[1] Prays at funet

[2] Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald; Landry, Jean-François; Zwick, Andreas; Cummings, Michael P. (2013-01-31). "A Molecular Phylogeny for Yponomeutoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Ditrysia) and Its Implications for Classification, Biogeography and the Evolution of Host Plant Use". PLOS ONE. 8 (1): e55066. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055066. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3561450. PMID 23383061.

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