Myelois

Myelois
Thistle Ermine (Myelois circumvoluta) Image by entomart.be
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Subfamily:	Phycitinae
Tribe:	Phycitini
Genus:	Myelois Hübner, 1825[1]
Synonyms
[2] Gnathogutta Roesler, 1988 Lispe Treitschke, 1832 (non Latreille, 1796: preoccupied) Myclois (lapsus) Myelophila Treitschke, 1835

Myelois is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. They are found in western Eurasia and adjacent regions such as the Maghreb.^[2]

Species of Myelois include:^[2]

• Myelois albistriga Erschoff, 1874
• Myelois cinctipalpella Christoph, 1877
• Myelois circumvoluta – Thistle Ermine
• Myelois cribratella Zeller, 1847
• Myelois echinopisella Chrétien, 1911
• Myelois famula Zeller, 1881
• Myelois fuscicostella Mann, 1861
• Myelois multiflorella Ragonot, 1887
• Myelois mystica Roesler, 1988
• Myelois osseella Ragonot, 1887
• Myelois ossicolor Ragonot, 1893
• Myelois pluripunctella Ragonot, 1887
• Myelois pollinella Christoph, 1877
• Myelois urbicella Erschoff, 1874
• Myelois vestaliella Erschoff, 1874

Formerly included here were related genera like Apomyelois. The genus Kyra is sometimes listed as a junior synonym of Myelois, but its type species is usually now placed in Eurhodope (as E. cirrigerella).^[3]

Footnotes

1. "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
2. See references in Savela (2009)
3. FE (2011) contra references in Savela (2009)

References

Media related to Myelois at Wikimedia Commons

• Fauna Europaea (FE) (2011): Eurhodope cirrigerella. Version 2.4, 2011-JAN-27. Retrieved 2011-DEC-22.
• Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Myelois. Version of 2009-APR-25. Retrieved 2010-APR-10.