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Merulempista cingillella

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Merulempista cingillella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Merulempista
Species:
M. cingillella
Binomial name
Merulempista cingillella
(Zeller, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Pempelia cingillella Zeller, 1846
  • Salebria cingilella
  • Meroptera cingillella
  • Merulempista cingillella hartigi Roesler, 1967
  • Pempelia brucella Staudinger, 1879
  • Tephris azronella D. Lucas, 1933
  • Trachonitis myricariella Millière, 1864

Merulempista cingillella is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is known from China (Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Ningxia, Tianjin, Xinjiang), Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Morocco.

The larvae feed on Myricaria germanica, Tamarix gracilis and other Tamarix species

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