Merulempista cingillella

Merulempista cingillella
Merulempista cingillella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Merulempista
Species: M. cingillella
Binomial name
Merulempista cingillella
(Zeller, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Pempelia cingillella Zeller, 1846
  • Salebria cingilella
  • Meroptera cingillella

Merulempista cingillella is a moth of the Pyralidae family. It is known from China (Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Ningxia, Tianjin, Xinjiang), Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Morocco.

The larvae feed on Myricaria germanica, Tamarix gracilis and other Tamarix species

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