Megasis
Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Pyraloidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Pyralidae
Subfamilia: Phycitinae
Tribus: Phycitini
Genus: Megasis
Species:
M. alpha –
M. alpherakii –
M. atrella –
M. beta –
M. caudellella –
M. cinereella –
M. delta –
M. dophnerella –
M. edwardsialis –
M. epsilon –
M. gamma –
M. hyrcanella –
M. iota –
M. kappa –
M. kocaki –
M. lesurella –
M. nigrifasciella –
M. perfuscalis –
M. phi –
M. pullatella –
M. punctella –
M. ragonoti –
M. rippertella –
M. rubrithoracella –
M. signatella –
M. tephrella
Note many of these species were recombined from genus Sarata by Leraut, 2019 or in Leraut, 2021.
Name
[edit]Megasis Guenée, 1845
Type species: Anerastia rippertella Zeller, 1839 by subsequent designation by Desmarest, 1857.
Synonymy
[edit]- Megasis Guenée, 1845: 309. (Protonym)
- Sarata Ragonot, 1887: 11. Junior subjective synonym of Megasis in Leraut, 2021: 64.
- Type species: Sarata dophnerella Ragonot, 1887 by original designation
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Guénée, A. 1845. Essai sur une nouvelle classification des Microlépidoptères et catalogue des espèces européennes connues jusqu'à jour. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (2) 3: 105–192, 207–344. BHL
Reference page. - Leraut, G. 2021. Spécies général des Phycitinae (Lep.: Pyraloidea, Pyralidae). A global comprehensive check-list of the Phycitinae (Lep.: Pyraloidea, Pyralidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie Générale 2(5-6, Supplement): 1-372. [plus index, total 494 pp.] Reference page.
- Pohl, G.R. & Nanz, S.R. 2025. Corrections to the 2023 "Annotated Taxonomic Checklist Of The Lepidoptera Of North America, North Of Mexico". Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 79(2): 104–116. DOI: 10.18473/lepi.79i2.a4 Online Reference page.
- Pohl, G.R. & Nanz, S.R. (eds.) 2023. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, Bakersfield, California. xiv + 580 pp.
PDF Reference page. - Ragonot, E.L. 1887. Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae and Galleriidae. Paris, privately published; 20pp. PDF Reference page.
- Zeller, P.C. 1839. Versuch einer naturgemäßen Eintheilung der Schaben. Isis von Oken 1839(3): 167–220. BHL.
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Additional references
[edit]- Ferris, C.D. & Nordin, J.S. 2004. Taxonomic note on Sarata tephrella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Zootaxa 569: 1–7. Abstract & excerpt Full article (PDF). Reference page.
- Heinrich, C. 1956. American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 207: i–viii, 1–581, figs 1–1138. BHL Reference page.