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Niphopyralis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Crambidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Rank
  
Genus

Subfamily
  
Wurthiinae Roepke, 1916

Similar
  
Cybalomia, Hyalobathra, Heliothela, Eoophyla, Cotachena

Niphopyralis is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family and only genus of the Wurthiinae subfamily.

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Description

Palpi upturned, smoothly scaled, and hardly reaching vertex of head. Maxillary palpi minute. Frons rounded. Antennae of male bipectinate. Tibia with nearly equal spurs. Fore wings short and rounded. Vein 3 from near angle of cell and veins 4,5 from angle. Vein 7 well separated from veins 8,9. Veins 10,11 free. Hind wings with veins 3,4,5 from angle of cell and veins 6,7 from upper angle.

Species

  • Niphopyralis albida Hampson, 1893
  • Niphopyralis aurivillii (Kemner, 1923)
  • Niphopyralis chionesis Hampson, 1919
  • Niphopyralis contaminata Hampson, 1893
  • Niphopyralis discipunctalis Hampson, 1919
  • Niphopyralis myrmecophila (Roepke, 1916)
  • Niphopyralis nivalis Hampson, 1893
  • Niphopyralis suffidalis Swinhoe, 1895

    • References

    Niphopyralis Wikipedia
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