Xyrosaris
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Genus: | Xyrosaris Meyrick, 1907
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Xyrosaris dryopa Meyrick, 1907 | |
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Xyrosaris is a genus of moths of the Yponomeutidae family.[1][2]
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)
- ^ Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (eds.). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). [1]
- ^ 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