''Assara formosana'' is a species of snout moth in the genus ''

Assara ''Assara'' is a genus of small moths belonging to the snout moth family (Pyralidae). They are part of the tribe Phycitini within the huge snout moth subfamily Phycitinae. Selected species Species of ''Assara'' include:Clarke (1986), and see refe ...

''. It was described by Yoshiyasu in 1991. It is found in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

and

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

.Japanese Moths
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References

Moths described in 1991 Phycitini Moths of Japan Moths of Taiwan {{Phycitini-stub