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Subfamily Pyralinae


A new species of Neodavisia Barnes and McDunnough (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from southern Texas
By D.C. Ferguson, A. Blanchard and E.C. Knudson
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86: 769-772, 1984

Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae Vol. I
By Emile-Louis Ragonot
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / rédigés par N. M. Romanoff Vol. VII, 658 pp., 23 pl., 1893
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Volume II published posthumously, completed by G.F. Hampson, in 1901.

Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae Vol. II
By Emile-Louis Ragonot
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / rédigés par N. M. Romanoff Vol. VIII, 602 pp., 34 pl., 1901
Completed by G.F. Hampson following Ragonot's death in 1895, two years after publication of volume one. Online PDF

Descriptions of some new species of Epipaschiinae and Phycitidae.
By Hulst, G.D.
The Canadian Entomologist, 27(3): 53-58., 1895
Hulst, G.D., 1895. Descriptions of some new species of Epipaschiinae and Phycitidae. The Canadian Entomologist, 27(3): 53-58.

Diagnoses of North American Phycitiae and Galleriiae.
By Émile Louis Ragonot
Self-published Paris, France: pp. 1-20, 1887
Ragonot, E.L., 1887. Diagnoses of North American Phycitiae and Galleriiae: 1-20.

The appleleaf skeletonizer — Pempelia hammondi, n. sp,
By C.V. Riley
4th Ann. Rep. Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of State of Missouri. St. Louis, MO., 1872
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The Biology of the Appleleaf Skeletonizer, Psorosina hammondi, on Crataegus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae)
By G .P. Doerksen and H.H. Neunzig
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1974
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The Phycitidae of North America
By George D. Hulst
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 17(2): 93-228, 1890