Biology:Merulempista cingillella

Short description: Species of moth

Merulempista cingillella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Merulempista
Species:	M. cingillella
Binomial name
Merulempista cingillella (Zeller, 1846)
Synonyms
Pempelia cingillella Zeller, 1846 Salebria cingilella Meroptera cingillella Merulempista cingillella hartigi Roesler, 1967 Pempelia brucella Staudinger, 1879 Tephris azronella D. Lucas, 1933 Trachonitis myricariella Millière, 1864

Merulempista cingillella is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is known from China (Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Ningxia, Tianjin, Xinjiang), Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France , Germany , Hungary, Italy, Russia , Slovakia, Spain , Switzerland , Turkey, Ukraine and Morocco.

The larvae feed on Myricaria germanica, Tamarix gracilis and other Tamarix species

External links

• Review of the genus Merulempista Roesler, 1967 (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) from China, with description of two new species

Wikidata ☰ Q8365418 entry