Thylacoptila paurosema

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| taxon = Thylacoptila paurosema

| authority = Meyrick, 1888{{cite web|url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=World Pyraloidea Database |publisher=Globiz.pyraloidea.org |date= |accessdate=2012-02-08}}

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• Nephopteryx paurosema
• Bussa maculella Ragonot, 1888
• Harraria diehlella Marion & Viette, 1956
• Thylacoptila diehliella
• Nephopteryx canescentella Hampson, 1896
• Salebria thylacandra Meyrick, 1932

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Thylacoptila paurosema is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae. It has a wide range and is found on the Canary Islands,[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304221030/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=441775 Fauna Europaea] Cabo Verde, Ethiopia, Ghana, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Namibia, South Africa, Yemen,[http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/THYLPAUR Afro Moths] Madagascar, Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and Ascension Island.

The larvae are a pest of cashew and mango.