Zamagiria
Sign in to saveZamagiria is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (Pyralidae). They are part of the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae, but their exact relationships are obscure, and they are currently not assigned to a particular tribe of Phycitinae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Collections
- USNM, ANSP
- Recorded in
- United States
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Phycitinae
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- taxon name
- Zamagiria
- taxon rank
- genus
- has host
- Sideroxylon foetidissimum
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Zamagiria is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (Pyralidae). They are part of the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae, but their exact relationships are obscure, and they are currently not assigned to a particular tribe of Phycitinae.
This genus is almost exclusively found in the Neotropics. One species (Z. laidion) ranges north up to Florida, and one other (Z. exedra) was described from a specimen collected on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands. But the latter may simply have been accidentally introduced, being in reality a Neotropical species whose native range has not yet been discovered.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zamagiria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.