| Assara | |
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| Assara holophragma imago | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Family: | Pyralidae | 
| Tribe: | Phycitini | 
| Genus: | Assara Walker, 1863  | 
| Type species | |
| Assara albicostalis Walker, 1863  | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| 
 Cateremna Meyrick, 1882  | |
Assara is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (Pyralidae). They are part of the tribe Phycitini within the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae.
Selected species
- Assara albicostalis
 - Assara aterpes
 - Assara balanophorae
 - Assara cataxutha
 - Assara chionopleura
 - Assara conicolella
 - Assara decipula Clarke, 1986
 - Assara exiguella
 - Assara formosana
 - Assara funerella
 - Assara halmophila (Meyrick, 1929)
 - Assara holophragma
 - Assara hoeneella
 - Assara holophragma
 - Assara incredibilis
 - Assara inouei
 - Assara ketjila Roesler & Küppers, 1981
 - Assara korbi (Caradja, 1910) (from China)
 - Assara leucarma
 - Assara linjiangensis
 - Assara melanomita
 - Assara microdoxa
 - Assara murasei
 - Assara odontosema
 - Assara pallidella
 - Assara pinivora
 - Assara proleuca
 - Assara quadriguttella
 - Assara semifictile
 - Assara seminivale (from Australia)
 - Assara subarcuella
 - Assara terebrella (Zincken, 1818) (from China)
 - Assara tuberculosa
 - Assara tumidula
 - Assara turciella
 
Footnotes
References
 Media related to Assara at Wikimedia Commons
- Clarke, John Frederick Gates (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine (214 MB!)
 - Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Assara. Version of 5 November 2004. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
 - Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms – Assara. Version of 9 April 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
 
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