Scoparia (moth)

Scoparia
Scoparia pyralella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Scopariinae
Genus: Scoparia
Haworth, 1811
Synonyms
  • Epileucia Stephens, 1852
  • Eudorea J. Curtis, 1827
  • Eudoria Chapman, 1912
  • Eudoroea Bruand, 1851
  • Phegea Gistel, 1848
  • Scopea Haworth, 1828
  • Sineudonia Leraut, 1986
  • Tetraprosopus Butler, 1882
  • Xeroscopa Meyrick, 1884

Scoparia is a grass moth genus (family Crambidae) of subfamily Scopariinae. Some authors have assigned the synonymous taxon Sineudonia to the snout moth family (Pyralidae), where all grass moths were once also included, but this seems to be in error.

As of 2012, there were about 231 species. Species occur on every continent except Antarctica. They are most reliably distinguished from one another by the structure of the male genitalia.[1]

  1. ^ Li, W. C. (2012). One new species of the genus Scoparia Haworth, 1811 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Scopariinae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 40(157) 73-75.