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Species Varneria postremella - The Little Ruby - Hodges#6029


Descriptions of new species of Pyralidae of the subfamily Pyraustinae
By G.F. Hampson
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, 1912

New North American records of Pyraloidea from Southern Florida
By Hayden, James and Dickel, Terhune
Center for Systematic Entomology, Insecta Mundi 0361: 1–16 , 2014
Ennomosia Amsel transferred from Spilomelinae to Glaphyriinae
Cangetta micralis (Hampson) n. comb. transferred from Deuterophysa Warren to Spilomelinae
Microthyris lelex (Cramer) n. comb. transferred from Cyclocena Möschler.
Pseudocabotia balconiensis Blanchard and Knudson rev. stat. transferred to a subgenus of Ancylosis Zeller, with its type species A. (P.) balconiensis (Blanchard and Knudson) n. comb.

Descriptions of Some Pyralid Larva from Southern Florida
By Dyar, Harrison G.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Volume 9, 20-21, 1901
Available online here

Annotated check list of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) of America North of Mexico
By Scholtens, B.G., Solis, A.M.
ZooKeys 535: 1–136. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.535.6086, 2015

A review of the North American Pyralinae
By H. G. Dyar
Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington, 10: 97-102, 1908

Some new American pyralidoid moths
By Carl Heinrich
Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington 42(2): 31-41 , 1940

A revision of the moths of the Subfamily Pyraustinae and Family Pyralidae
By G. F. Hampson
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 590-604, 1898

Phylogenetic studies and modern classification of the Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera)
By M. Alma Solis
Revista Colombiana de Entomología 33 (1): 1-9, 2007