''Scythris fissurella'' is a
moth of the family
Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 1997. It is found in
Cape Verde
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(
Brava),
Kenya,
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
,
Yemen,
Oman,
Pakistan,
Afghanistan and
Iran. Records from
Russia (
Astrakhan region) and
Kazakhstan refer to the related
S. niemineni.
The larvae feed on ''
Aerva javanica
''Aerva javanica'', the kapok bush or desert cotton, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It has a native distribution incorporating much of Africa (including Madagascar), and the south-west and south of Asia, and it has become adve ...
''.
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References
* , 1997: Scythridids found by H. Hacker in Pakistan 1988 and India 1992. ''Esperiana'' 4:467–481.
fissurella
''Fissurella'' is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Fissurellinae of the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Fissurella Bruguiè ...
Moths described in 1997
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