Assara Walker, 1863

Qi, Mu-Jie, Han, Hui-Lin, Park, Bo-Sun & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2014, Taxonomic study of the genus Assara Walker (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) in NE China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3814 (2), pp. 283-291 : 283-284

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.2.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AF2438A3-10E8-40E8-90E0-9927B365F867

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6144393

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D598413-191B-FFBA-FF6B-F950FE92FD03

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scientific name

Assara Walker, 1863
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Genus Assara Walker, 1863 View in CoL

Assara Walker, 1863 View in CoL , List. Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. Brit. Mus View in CoL . 27: 79. TS: Assara albicostalis Walker, 1863 View in CoL . Cateremna Meyrick, 1882, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 7: 156. TS: Euzophera microdoxa Meyrick, 1879 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. The genus Assara is similar to Euzophera Zeller, 1867 , but can be distinguished by the following characters: the gnathos slim, distally hooked; transtilla with terminal margin concave or quadrate; juxta with gradually sharpened lateral lobes. In Euzophera , the gnathos is usually pointed and longer than uncus; the terminal margin of transtilla is bifid; the lateral lobes of juxta are enlarged distally.

Adult. Wingspan 11–24 mm. Frons rounded, covered with smooth scales. Chaetosema and ocellus present. Labial palpus upturned, reaching or over vertex; proboscis well-developed, scaled at base. Antenna filiform, about 2/3 length of forewing. Forewing with 11 veins, R3 and R4 with basal 2/3 stalked; R2 from lower angle of discal cell; M1 from 1/3 of upper angle of discal cell, M2 approximated to M3 at base; CuA1, CuA2 from lower angle of discal cell. Hindwing with 9 veins, Sc and Rs stalked, M1 stalked with Rs shortly at base; M2 and M3 fused completely; M2+3 and CuA1 stalked at base; CuA2 from 3/4 of discal cell, discal cell about 1/2 length of hindwing.

Male genitalia. Uncus triangular, with rounded or narrow apex, dorsal part with hairs; apical process of gnathos elongated, hooked; valva with basal part narrower than distal part or with dorsal and ventral margins parallel, apex rounded; costa sclerotized, with small projection at apex; juxta V-shaped, with setae at tip; vinculum U-shaped; aedeagus cylindrical or rod-shaped.

Female genitalia. Papillae anales slim or narrow; apophyses anteriores and apophyses posteriores about equal in length; ductus bursae and corpus bursae membranous, ductus seminalis from base of corpus bursae; signum various in shape.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pyralidae

Loc

Assara Walker, 1863

Qi, Mu-Jie, Han, Hui-Lin, Park, Bo-Sun & Bae, Yang-Seop 2014
2014
Loc

Euzophera microdoxa

Meyrick 1879
1879
Loc

Assara

Walker 1863
1863
Loc

Assara albicostalis

Walker 1863
1863
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