The Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s. l.) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Author
Landry, Bernard
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2015
2015-03-31
122
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.14577
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0035-418
14577
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Achyra
Guenée, 1849
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
).