The Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s. l.) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Author
Landry, Bernard
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2015
2015-03-31
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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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Pyrausta
Schrank, 1802
A widely distributed genus comprising 284 species (
Nuss
et al.,
2014
). The larvae web and often roll leaves, shoots, and flowers head of a variety of herbaceous plants, but most of the species were reared from
Lamiaceae (
Munroe, 1976
)
. Three species occur in the
Galápagos
. The moths are generally small and slender and the valva of the male genitalia usually bears a single basally directed or recurved setose or scaled clasper (
Munroe, 1976
).