''Hypsopygia vernaculalis'' 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 ''

Hypsopygia ''Hypsopygia'' is a genus of moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. Though fairly small, they are large among their relatives. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Taxonomy The genera '' Herculia'', '' Dolichomia'', ''Pseudasopia'', '' O ...

''. It was described by

Carlos Berg Carlos Berg (, ) or Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Berg (, ) (21 March 1843, Courland – 19 January 1902 Buenos Aires) was an Argentine naturalist and entomologist of Latvian and Baltic German origin. Having worked a few years in trade, he moved to ...

in 1874 and is found in

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

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Moths described in 1874 Pyralini {{Hypsopygia-stub