Hawaiian Pyraloidea IV

The lepidopteran superfamily Pyraloidea is comprised of more than 16,000 species in two families, Crambidae and Pyralidae, making it the third largest group of moths and butterflies. The group is taxonomically uncertain, with the phylogenetic placement of many genera, and even some families, still up for debate. The group has an amazing diversity of life histories, and while many are leaf or plant feeders, others prey on scale insects or live among ant and bee colonies. Some are aquatic, others are adapted to extremely dry environments and others still feed on detritus of various sorts. A number of species are economically important. The greatest diversity of these moths is in the tropics, but they are distributed around the world. Two of the defining features of the group are the basally scaled proboscus which the moths sport in addition to their abdominal tympanal organs. The former has earned them the nickname “snout” moths. Please help the UHIM transcribe its collection of diverse and economically important Pyraloidea moths. The total number of tasks for this dataset is: 505, number transcribed is 505 and number validated is 0. This data resource is harvested periodically into the main occurrence index.

鳞翅目（Lepidoptera）螟蛾总科（Pyraloidea）包含草螟科（Crambidae）与螟蛾科（Pyralidae）2个科的16000余个物种，是全球第三大蛾类与蝶类类群。该类群分类学界定存疑，诸多属乃至部分科的系统发育位置仍存在争议。其生活史多样性极为丰富：多数类群以叶片或植物为食，另有类群捕食介壳虫，或栖息于蚁群与蜂群中；部分类群为水生，部分适应极端干旱环境，还有类群以各类腐殖质为食。部分物种具有重要经济价值。该类群的物种多样性以热带地区最为丰富，但它们的分布遍及全球。该类群的两个典型鉴别特征为：基部覆有鳞片的喙（proboscus）以及腹部鼓膜器，前者使其获得了‘长喙蛾’的俗称。请协助夏威夷大学昆虫博物馆（University of Hawaii Insect Museum，缩写UHIM）完成其馆藏多样且具经济重要性的螟蛾总科蛾类标本的转录工作。本数据集的总任务量为505项，已完成转录505项，已验证0项。该数据资源将定期汇入核心标本出现记录总索引。