Placosaris
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| Placosaris | |
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| Placosaris triticalis, adult, illustrated in [1]: pl. 3 fig. 213 | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyraustinae |
| Genus: | Placosaris Meyrick, 1897[2] |
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Placosaris is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Pyraustinae of the family Crambidae. It is placed in the tribe Pyraustini.[3]
The genus currently comprises 25 species, which are exclusively distributed in the Indomalayan realm and New Guinea.[2] A taxonomic revision from 1970 covers the species distributed in Temperate East Asia.[4]
