Acrobasis Kylesi
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''Acrobasis kylesi'' is a species of
snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralida ...
in the genus ''
Acrobasis ''Acrobasis'' is a genus of moths of the family Pyralidae.
''. It was described by Herbert H. Neunzig in 1986 and is known from
Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
, United States. The larvae feed on ''
Ostrya virginiana ''Ostrya virginiana'', the American hophornbeam, is a species of ''Ostrya'' native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Manitoba and eastern Wyoming, southeast to northern Florida and southwest to eastern Texas. Populations ...
''.


References

Moths described in 1986 Acrobasis Moths of North America {{Acrobasis-stub