Notes on the scientific name of pear fruit moth, Acrobasis pirivorella(Matsumura, 1900) (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae)

Abstract

The pear fruit moth, Acrobasis pirivorella(Matsumura), has often been treated as Ectomyelois pyrivorella(Matsumura)or as Acrobasis pyrivorella(Matsumura). As the generic treatments differ between researchers, we focus here on the specific name only. We investigated the reasons for the difference in spelling of the specific name, pirivorella vs. pyrivorella.