Scoparia

For the plant, see Richea scoparia
Scoparia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Scopariinae
Genus: Scoparia
Haworth, 1811
Synonyms
  • Epileucia Stephens, 1852
  • Eudorea J. Curtis, 1827
  • Eudoria Chapman, 1912
  • Eudoroea Bruand, 1851
  • Phegea Gistel, 1848
  • Scopea Haworth, 1828
  • Sineudonia Leraut, 1986
  • Tetraprosopus Butler, 1882
  • Xeroscopa Meyrick, 1884

Scoparia is a grass moth genus (family Crambidae) of subfamily Scopariinae. Some authors have assigned the synonymous taxon Sineudonia to the snout moth family (Pyralidae), where all grass moths were once also included, but this seems to be in error.

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