Contribution to the study of the Afrotropical Pyraustinae Meyrick, 1890 (Lepidoptera, Crambidae): Taxonomic and distributional updates on five species with new country records.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Pyraustinae Meyrick, 1890 form the fifth most diverse subfamily in the Pyraloidea, comprising 1270 described species distributed over 173 genera. For the Afrotropical zone, a total of 160 species have become known to date. Faunistic studies on the subfamily for the Afrotropical zone have been to date regionally confined on the southern parts of Africa, including South Africa, the Mascarene and Malagasy islands. The other parts of sub-Saharan Africa have remained understudied. This results in still unexplored distribution patterns of the Afrotropical Pyraustinae. The Afrotropical zone reaches its northern boundaries in the southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula which include the southern part of Oman (Province Dhofar), Yemen and the south-western parts of Saudi Arabi

SUBMITTER: Seizmair M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12329420 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature