''Sisyracera'' is a genus of snout moths in the

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Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. It was described in 1890 by

Heinrich Benno Möschler Heinrich Benno Möschler (28 October 1831, in Herrnhut – 21 November 1888, in Kronförstchen, near Bautzen) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Möschler was a butterfly dealer and a member of the Entomological Society of ...

with ''Leucinodes preciosalis'' as type species, now considered a synonym of ''

Sisyracera subulalis ''Sisyracera subulalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1854. It is found on the West Indies (including Jamaica and Cuba) and from Florida and Texas, through Mexico, Honduras and Costa Rica to ...

''. The genus has been placed in the tribe Udeini. DNA barcode data for two species of ''Sisyracera'' are stored in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD), although only sequences for '' S. subulalis'' from specimens collected at the

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are publicly accessible.

Species

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Sisyracera inabsconsalis ''Sisyracera inabsconsalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler Heinrich Benno Möschler (28 October 1831, in Herrnhut – 21 November 1888, in Kronförstchen, near Bautzen) was a German entomologis ...

'' (Möschler, 1890) *''

Sisyracera jacquelinae ''Sisyracera'' is a genus of Pyraloidea, snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family (biology), family Crambidae. It was described in 1890 by Heinrich Benno Möschler with ''Leucinodes preciosalis'' as type species, now considered a s ...

'' B. Landry, 2016 *''

'' (Guenée, 1854)

Former species

*''Sisyracera contortilinealis'' (Hampson, 1895), now a synonym of ''Sisyracera inabsconsalis'' *''

Sisyracera preciosalis ''Sisyracera subulalis'' is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1854. It is found on the West Indies (including Jamaica and Cuba) and from Florida and Texas, through Mexico, Honduras and Costa Rica to ...

'' (Möschler, 1881)

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Spilomelinae Crambidae genera Taxa named by Heinrich Benno Möschler {{Spilomelinae-stub