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This species was described in Edda Martinez' unpublished revision of the genus Donacaula (Martinez, 2010). Adults of the species are best identified by dissection.
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Larval hosts are unknown but may be grasses and/or sedges.
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| Donacaula | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Schoenobiinae |
| Genus: | Donacaula Meyrick, 1890[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tinea mucronella Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
| |


Donacaula is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by Edward Meyrick in 1890.
Four species of this genus are represented in the Palearctic region, four species in Africa, two species in the Oriental region, seven species in the Neotropical region and twenty-one in the Nearctic region.[2]
Species
[edit]- Donacaula albicostella (Fernald, 1888)
- Donacaula aquilella Clemens, 1860
- Donacaula caminarius (Zeller) (Ethiopian region)
- Donacaula dispersella Robinson
- Donacaula dodatellus (Walker, 1864) (Oriental)
- Donacaula flavus de Joannis, 1929 (Oriental)
- Donacaula forficella (Thunberg, 1794) (Palearctic)
- Donacaula hasegawai (Shibuya, 1927) (Palearctic)
- Donacaula ignitalis (Hampson, 1919) (Ethiopian region)
- Donacaula immanis (Zeller, 1877) (Neotropical)
- Donacaula longirostrallus (Clemens, 1860)
- Donacaula maximellus (Fernald, 1891)
- Donacaula melinella Clemens, 1860
- Donacaula microforficellus (Amsel, 1956) (Neotropical)
- Donacaula montivagellus (Zeller, 1863) (Neotropical)
- Donacaula mucronella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (Palearctic)
- Donacaula niloticus (Zeller, 1867) (Palearctic)
- Donacaula nitidellus (Dyar, 1917)
- Donacaula pallulellus (Barnes & McDunnough, 1912)
- Donacaula phaeopastalis (Hampson, 1919) (Ethiopian region)
- Donacaula porrectellus (Walker, 1863) (Neotropical)
- Donacaula pulverealis (Hampson, 1919) (Neotropical)
- Donacaula roscidellus (Dyar, 1917)
- Donacaula rufalis (Hampson, 1919) (Ethiopian region)
- Donacaula semifuscalis (Hampson, 1919) (Neotropical)
- Donacaula sicarius (Zeller, 1863)
- Donacaula sordidellus (Zincken, 1821)
- Donacaula tripunctellus (Robinson, 1870)
- Donacaula unipunctellus (Robinson, 1870)
- Donacaula uxorialis (Dyar, 1921)
Former species
[edit]- Donacaula amblyptepennis (Dyar, 1917)
- Donacaula bicolorellus (F. Hoffmann, 1934)
- Donacaula lanceolellus (Hampson, 1895)
Unpublished species
[edit]The species below were described in an unpublished doctoral dissertation by Edda Lis Martínez in 2010.[3][4]
- Donacaula flavusella
- Donacaula linealis
- Donacaula luridusella
- Donacaula microlinealis
- Donacaula ochronella
- Donacaula parealis
- Donacaula quadrisella
- Donacaula ravella
- Donacaula sinusella
- Donacaula tannisella
References
[edit]- ^ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2011). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ Martínez, Edda Lis (December 2010). A Revision of the New World Species of Donacaula Meyrick and a Phylogenetic Analysis of Related Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) (PDF) (PhD). UMI Dissertation Publishing. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 2, 2013.
- ^ Scholtens, Brian; Solis, M. Alma (2015). "Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico". ZooKeys (535): 1–136. Bibcode:2015ZooK..535....1S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.535.6086. PMC 4669914. PMID 26668552.
Donacaula was revised by Martinez (2010) in an unpublished dissertation, therefore the new scientific names are not available until they are published.
- ^ Martínez, Edda Lis (December 2010). A Revision of the New World Species of Donacaula Meyrick and a Phylogenetic Analysis of Related Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) (PDF) (PhD). UMI Dissertation Publishing. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 2, 2013.