Mapeta omphephora

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Mapeta omphephora
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Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Mapeta
Species:M. omphephora
Binomial name
Mapeta omphephora
Dyar, 1914

Mapeta omphephora is a species of snout moth in the genus Mapeta . [1] It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914 and is known from Mexico.

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Pyralini tribe of insects

The Pyralini are a tribe of snout moths described by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. They belong to the subfamily Pyralinae, which contains the "typical" snout moths of the Old World and some other regions. The genus list presented here is provisional.

Mapeta cynosura is a species of snout moth in the genus Mapeta. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1895, and is known from Mexico.

Mapeta xanthomelas is a species of snout moth and the type species in the genus Mapeta. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863 and is known from Jamaica and Mexico to Venezuela.

References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-09-29.