Aglossa

Aglossa
Adult grease moth (A. pinguinalis) Image by entomart.be
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Subfamily:	Pyralinae
Tribe:	Pyralini
Genus:	Aglossa Latreille, 1796
Species
Numerous, see text
Synonyms
[1] Agriope Ragonot, 1894 Euclita Hübner, [1825] Crocalia Ragonot, 1892 Oryctocera Ragonot, 1891

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

1. See references in Savela (2009)
2. Grabe (1942)

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.