''Trestonia pyralis'' is a species of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
in the family
Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than ...
. It was described by Dillon and Dillon in 1946. It is known from
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...
and
Costa Rica.
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References
pyralis
''Pyralis'' is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
Species
* ''Pyralis caustica'' (Meyrick, 1884)
* ''Pyralis costinotalis'' Hampson, 1917
* ''Pyralis electalis'' Hulst, 1886
* '' Pyralis farinalis'' (Linnaeus, 1 ...
Beetles described in 1946
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