''Sisyracera'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of snout moths in the subfamily

Spilomelinae Spilomelinae is a very species-rich subfamily of the lepidopteran family Crambidae, the crambid snout moths. With 4,135 described species in 344 genera worldwide, it is the most speciose group among pyraloids. Description Imagines – the ad ...

of the

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Crambidae The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...

. 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 S ...

with ''Leucinodes preciosalis'' as

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, now considered a synonym of '' Sisyracera subulalis''. The genus has been placed in the

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

Udeini Udeini is a tribe in the species-rich subfamily Spilomelinae in the pyraloid moth family Crambidae. The tribe was erected by Richard Mally, James E. Hayden, Christoph Neinhuis, Bjarte H. Jordal and Matthias Nuss in 2019. Systematics Nin ...

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data for two species of ''Sisyracera'' are stored in the

Barcode of Life Data System The Barcode of Life Data System (commonly known as BOLD or BOLDSystems) is a web platform specifically devoted to DNA barcoding. It is a cloud-based data storage and analysis platform developed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics in Canada. I ...

(BOLD), although only sequences for '' S. subulalis'' from specimens collected at the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica are publicly accessible.

Species

*'' Sisyracera inabsconsalis'' (Möschler, 1890) *'' Sisyracera jacquelinae'' B. Landry, 2016 *'' Sisyracera subulalis'' (Guenée, 1854)

Former species

*''Sisyracera contortilinealis'' (Hampson, 1895), now a synonym of ''Sisyracera inabsconsalis'' *'' Sisyracera preciosalis'' (Möschler, 1881)

References

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