Palepicorsia

Palepicorsia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Palepicorsia
Maes, 1995[1]
Species: P. ustrinalis
Binomial name
Palepicorsia ustrinalis
(Christoph, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Botys ustrinalis Christoph, 1877
  • Metasia emiralis Oberthür, 1888
  • Metasia excavatalis Ragonot in Staudinger, 1892
  • Scopula palmalis Swinhoe, 1884

Palepicorsia is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. It contains only one species, Palepicorsia ustrinalis, which is found on Sardinia and in France, Spain and Portugal,[2] as well as in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Turkmenistan,[3] Iran, Pakistan and North Africa, including Tunisia.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
  2. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  3. ↑ Afro Moths


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