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Issue: Vol. 5853 No. 2: 21 Jul. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-07-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5853.2.9
Page range: 283-290
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Assara grazalemensis, a new species of Phycitinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from Spanish fir forests of southern Iberian Peninsula

Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology. University of Murcia. Campus de Espinardo. 30100 Murcia. Spain
C/ Alhóndiga 5; 11370; Los Barrios; Cádiz (Spain)
Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology. University of Murcia. Campus de Espinardo. 30100 Murcia. Spain
Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology. University of Murcia. Campus de Espinardo. 30100 Murcia. Spain
Lepidoptera Taxonomy new species DNA barcode Pyralidae

Abstract

A new Assara species (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), A. grazalemensis Gaona, Garre & Ortiz sp. nov., is described from the Spanish fir forest of Cádiz in the Iberian Peninsula. Adult specimens and male and female genitalia are illustrated, and DNA barcode data are used to assess genetic divergence from closely related species Assara conicolella (Constant, 1884), A. terebrella (Zincken, 1818), Metallostichodes nigrocyanella (Constant, 1865) and Euzophera pinguis (Haworth, 1811) from the public BOLD database.

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How to Cite

Garre, M., Gaona, J.M., Rubio, R.M. & Ortiz, A.S. (2026) Assara grazalemensis, a new species of Phycitinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from Spanish fir forests of southern Iberian Peninsula. Zootaxa, 5853 (2), 283–290. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5853.2.9