Bostra (moth)

Short description: Genus of moths

Bostra

Bostra mesoleucalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Pyralidae
Tribe:  | Pyralini
Genus:  | Bostra
Walker, 1863[1]
Type species
Bostra illusella

Walker, 1863 [2]

Synonyms

* Therapne Ragonot, 1890

Bostra is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863[3] and is known from Ethiopia, Mozambique, India , and Turkey.

## Species

* Bostra albilineata (Warren, 1891)
* Bostra amphidissa Meyrick, 1933
* Bostra anhydropa Meyrick, 1933
* Bostra asbenicola Rothschild, 1921
* Bostra callispilalis Le Cerf, 1922 (from Kenya)
* Bostra carnicolor Warren, 1914 (from South Africa)
* Bostra chlorostoma Meyrick, 1934 (from Congo)
* Bostra coenochroa Hampson, 1917
* Bostra conflualis Hampson, 1906 (from South Africa)
* Bostra conspicualis Warren, 1911 (from South Africa)
* Bostra dentilinealis Hampson, 1917 (from Malawi)
* Bostra dipectinialis Hampson, 1906
* Bostra evillensis Ghesquière, 1942
* Bostra excelsa Rougeot, 1984 (from Ethiopia)
* Bostra ferrealis Hampson, 1906  (from South Africa)
* Bostra flavicostalis Warren, 1914 (from South Africa)
* Bostra claveriei Rougeot, 1977
* Bostra fascialis Warren, 1895
* Bostra fumosa de Joannis, 1927 (from Mozambique)
* Bostra fuscipennis Hampson, 1910 (from Zambia)
* Bostra glaucalis Hampson, 1906 (from Tanzania)
* Bostra igneusta Swinhoe, 1895
* Bostra illusella Walker, 1863
* Bostra indicator (Walker, 1864)
* Bostra lateritialis (Guenée, 1854)
* Bostra legalis Meyrick, 1933 (from Congo)
* Bostra leucostigmalis Hampson, 1906 (from Tanzania)
* Bostra lignealis Hampson, 1917 (from Kenya)
* Bostra linogramma Meyrick, 1933 (from Congo)
* Bostra maculilinea Hampson, 1917 (from Malawi)
* Bostra mesoleucalis Hampson, 1912
* Bostra nanalis (Wileman, 1911)
* Bostra noctuina (Butler, 1875) (from South Africa)
* Bostra obsoletalis (Mann, 1864)
* Bostra ochrigrammalis Hampson, 1906 (from Nigeria)
* Bostra pallidicolor Hampson, 1917 (from South Africa)
* Bostra pallidifrons Hampson, 1917
* Bostra perrubida Hampson, 1910 (from Zambia)
* Bostra phoenicocraspis Hampson, 1917 (from Cameroon)
* Bostra phoenicocraspis Hampson, 1917 (from Cameroon)
* Bostra phoenicoxantha Hampson, 1917 (from Malawi)
* Bostra pseudoexcelsa , 1984 (from Ethiopia)
* Bostra puncticostalis Hampson, 1898 (from South Africa)
* Bostra pulverealis (Hampson, 1916)
* Bostra purpurealis Hampson, 1917
* Bostra pygmaea Hampson, 1906 (from Kenya)
* Bostra pyrochroa (Hampson, 1916)
* Bostra pyrochroalis Hampson, 1916 (from Somalia)
* Bostra pyroxantha Hampson, 1906 (from Zimbabwe)

## References

1. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Bostra Walker, 1863". http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/pyralidae/pyralinae/bostra/. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
2. ↑ Bostra at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
3. ↑ Francis, Walker (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 123. https://books.google.com/books?id=S9s4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA123. Retrieved 28 November 2012.

* Afromoths

## External links

* Nuss, M. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
* Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). Expression error: Missing operand for trunc. "Bostra". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=Expression error: Missing operand for trunc..Expression+error:+Missing+operand+for+trunc.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikibooks.org:Biology:Bostra_(moth)">

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