''Assara balanophorae'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...

in the genus ''

Assara ''Assara'' is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (biology), family (Pyralidae). They are part of the tribe (biology), tribe Phycitini within the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae. Selected species Species of ''Assara'' ...

''. It was described by Sasaki and Tanaka, in 2004, and is known from

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

References

Moths described in 2004 Phycitini Moths of Japan {{Phycitini-stub