Achyra Guenée, 1849
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.14577 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6122064 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A28796-BE05-B415-FEE0-0DB8FE81018C |
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Plazi |
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Achyra Guenée, 1849 |
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Achyra Guenée, 1849 View in CoL
Widespread across all major zoogeographical regions Achyra includes 18 species ( Nuss et al., 2014), 10 of which occur in the Neotropics ( Munroe, 1995). The larvae feed on a variety of low plants, including some crops (alfalfa, beans, clover, cotton, strawberries, etc.) ( Munroe, 1976). The moths have a conical frons and the male genitalia a narrowly triangular uncus, a juxta made of two separate plates connected ventrally, a clasper with a narrow spinulose process directed ventrally at middle or base of sacculus, and the sacculus with a blunt process or one or more dorsally directed spines at very base and a hump-like process adorned with radiating, dorsally directed setae beyond the clasper ( Munroe, 1976).
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