Prays
{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Prays
| image = Prays ruficeps.JPG
| image_caption =Prays ruficeps
| taxon = Prays
| authority = Hübner, 1825[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/yponomeutoidea/yponomeutidae/praydinae/prays/ Prays at funet]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
See text
| synonyms =
- Pepilla Guenée, 1845
}}
Prays is a genus of moths of the family Praydidae, formerly assigned to (depending on the author) Plutellidae or Yponomeutidae.{{Cite journal |last1=Sohn |first1=Jae-Cheon |last2=Regier |first2=Jerome C. |last3=Mitter |first3=Charles |last4=Davis |first4=Donald |last5=Landry |first5=Jean-François |last6=Zwick |first6=Andreas |last7=Cummings |first7=Michael P. |date=2013-01-31 |title=A Molecular Phylogeny for Yponomeutoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Ditrysia) and Its Implications for Classification, Biogeography and the Evolution of Host Plant Use |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=e55066 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0055066 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=3561450 |pmid=23383061|doi-access=free |bibcode=2013PLoSO...855066S }}
Selected species
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- Prays acmonias - Meyrick, 1914 (from India)
- Prays alpha - Moriuti, 1977 (from Japan)
- Prays amblystola - Turner, 1923 (from Australia)
- Prays armynoti Bippus, 2020 (from Réunion)
- 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 Gibeaux, 1985 (from Madagascar)
- 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)
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References
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- {{aut|Agassiz, D.}}, 2007: Prays peregrina sp. n. (Yponomeutidae) a presumed adventive species in Greater London. Nota Lepidopterologica 30 (2): 407–410. Full article: [https://web.archive.org/web/20141229172146/http://www.soceurlep.eu/tl_files/nota/bd30_2/13_Agassiz.pdf].
- {{aut|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: [http://www.troplep.org/TLR/9-1/pdf011.pdf]
- {{aut|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.
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Category:Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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