Decaturia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pyralidae |
Genus: | Decaturia Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 |
Species: | D. pectinalis
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Binomial name | |
Decaturia pectinalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1912
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Decaturia is a monotypic snout moth genus (family Pyralidae). Its only species, Decaturia pectinalis, is found from California to southern Arizona.[1] Both the genus and species were described by William Barnes of Decatur, Illinois, and James Halliday McDunnough in 1912.[2][3][4]
The wingspan is about 13 mm.