Genus of moths
Prays moths of the family Praydidae , formerly assigned to (depending on the author) Plutellidae or Yponomeutidae .[ 2]
Selected species
Prays acmonias Meyrick, 1914 (from India)Prays alpha Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)Prays amblystola Turner, 1923 (from Australia)Prays armynoti Prays atomocella (Dyar, 1902) (from Texas)Prays autocasis Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)Prays beta Moriuti, 1977 (Japan, Russia, South Korea)Prays caenobitella Hübner, 1816 Prays calycias Meyrick, 1907 (from Queensland)Prays chrysophyllae Silvestri, 1915 (from Eritrea)Prays cingulata H.L. Yu & H.H. Li, 2004 (from China)Prays citri Milliére, 1873 (worldwide distribution)Prays curalis Meyrick, 1914 (from India)Prays curulis Meyrick, 1914 (from India)Prays delta Moriuti, 1977 (from China, South Korea, Japan)Prays ducalis Meyrick, (from Sri Lanka)Prays endocarpa Meyrick, 1919 (Indonesia/Malaysia)Prays endolemma Diakonoff, 1967 (from the Philippines)Prays epsilon Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)Prays erebitis Meyrick, (from India, Oriental)Prays fraxinella Bjerkander, 1784 (from Europe)Prays friesei Klimesch, 1992 (from Canary islands)Prays fulvocanella Walsingham, 1907 Prays galapagosella B. Landry & J.F. Landry, 1998 (Galapagos islands)Prays gamma Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)Prays ignota J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 (from Polynesia)Prays inconspicua H.L. Yu & H.H. Li, 2004 (from China)Prays inscripta Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)Prays iota Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)Prays kappa Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)Prays kalligraphos J.C. Sohn & C.S. Wu, 2011 (from China)Prays lambda Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)Prays liophaea Meyrick, 1927 Prays lobata H.L. Yu & H.H. Li, 2004 (from China)Prays nephelomima Meyrick, 1907 Prays oleae Bernard, 1788 (from Europe)Prays oleaceoides Prays oliviella Boyer, 1837 Prays omicron Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)Prays parilis Turner, 1923 (from Australia)Prays peperitis Meyrick, 1907 (from Sri Lanka)Prays peregrina Agassiz, 2007 (from England)Prays ruficeps Heinemann, 1854 (from Europe)Prays sparsipunctella Turati, 1924 (from Libya)Prays stratella Zeller, 1877 Prays sublevatella Viette, 1957 (from Réunion)Prays temulenta Meyrick, 1910 (from Himalaya)Prays tineiformis J.C. Sohn & C.S. Wu, 2011 (from China)Prays tyrastis Meyrick, 1907 (from Australia)Prays xeroloxa Meyrick, 1935 (from Java/Indonesia)
References
^ Prays at funet ^ Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Regier, Jerome C.; Mitter, Charles; Davis, Donald; Landry, Jean-François; Zwick, Andreas; Cummings, Michael P. (2013-01-31). "A Molecular Phylogeny for Yponomeutoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Ditrysia) and Its Implications for Classification, Biogeography and the Evolution of Host Plant Use" . PLOS ONE . 8 (1): e55066. doi :10.1371/journal.pone.0055066 ISSN 1932-6203 . PMC 3561450 PMID 23383061 .
Agassiz, D. , 2007: Prays peregrina sp. n. (Yponomeutidae) a presumed adventive species in Greater London. Nota Lepidopterologica 30 (2) : 407–410. Full article: [1] .Landry, B. & J.-F. Landry , 1998: Yponomeutidae of the Galapagos Islands, with description of a new species of Prays (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 9 (1) : 31–40.Full article: [2] Sohn, J.-C. & C.-S. Wu , 2011, A taxonomic review of Prays Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Praydidae) China with descriptions of two new species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 154 (1) : 25–32.
