Aglossa
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| Adult grease moth (A. pinguinalis) Image by entomart.be | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Tribe: | Pyralini |
| Genus: | Aglossa Latreille, 1796 |
| Species | |
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Aglossa is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. They are found mainly in western Eurasia, though some species have been introduced elsewhere.[1]
This genus is remarkable for the caterpillars, which in some species are able to feed on a wide range of materials that are not usually eaten by Lepidoptera larvae, such as dead insects, manure and straw. The caterpillars of other Aglossa (e.g. A. signicostalis) are myrmecophilous.[2]
Adults of the grease moth (A. cuprina) sometimes eat fats such as suet.
Species
- Aglossa acallalis Dyar, 1908
- Aglossa aglossalis
- Aglossa asiatica
- Aglossa aurocupralis
- Aglossa baba Dyar, 1914
- Aglossa brabanti Ragonot, 1884
- Aglossa cacamica (Dyar, 1913)
- Aglossa caprealis (Hübner, [1809]) – Stored Grain Moth
- Aglossa capsalis
- Aglossa costiferalis (Walker, 1886)
- Aglossa cuprina (Zeller, 1872) – Grease Moth
- Aglossa dimidiatus (Haworth, 1809)
- Aglossa disciferalis (Dyar, 1908)
- Aglossa electalis Hulst, 1866
- Aglossa exsucealis
- Aglossa fumifusalis Hampson, 1916
- Aglossa furva Heinrich, 1931
- Aglossa gigantalis Barnes & Benjamin, 1925
- Aglossa gracilalis
- Aglossa humberti (Viette, 1973)
- Aglossa inconspicua Butler, 1875
- Aglossa incultalis Zeller, 1852
- Aglossa infuscalis Hampson, 1906
- Aglossa micalialis
- Aglossa mineti Leraut, 2006
- Aglossa obliteralis
- Aglossa ocellalis
- Aglossa oculalis Hampson, 1906
- Aglossa phaealis Hampson, 1906
- Aglossa pinguinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) – Large Tabby Moth
- Aglossa pulveralis
- Aglossa rabatalis
- Aglossa rhodalis Hampson, 1906
- Aglossa rubralis Hampson, 1900
- Aglossa signicostalis Staudinger, 1871
- Aglossa steralis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
- Aglossa subpurpuralis
- Aglossa suppunctalis
- Aglossa tanya
- Aglossa tenebrosalis Rothschild, 1915
- Aglossa thamii
- Aglossa tinealis
Footnotes
References
Media related to Aglossa at Wikimedia Commons
- Grabe, Albert (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"]. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins 27: 105-109 [in German]. PDF fulltext
- Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Aglossa. Version of 2009-APR-25. Retrieved 2010-APR-12.
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