''Aglossa'' is a

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of small

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belonging to the

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Pyralidae The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyr ...

. It was described by

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in 1796. They are found mainly in western

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, though some species have been introduced elsewhere. This genus is remarkable for the

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s, which in some

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are able to feed on a wide range of materials that are not usually eaten by

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e, such as dead

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and

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. The caterpillars of other ''Aglossa'' (e.g. '' A. signicostalis'') are

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.Grabe (1942) Adults of the

grease moth ''Aglossa cuprina'', the grease moth, is a snout moth, family Pyralidae, described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1872. The grease moth is closely related to the genus '' Pyralis'', and as a result, is usually associated with the meal moth, '' ...

(''A. cuprina'') sometimes eat

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s such as

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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,

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– stored grain moth * '' Aglossa capsalis'' * '' Aglossa costiferalis'' (Walker, 1886) * ''

Aglossa cuprina ''Aglossa cuprina'', the grease moth, is a snout moth, family Pyralidae, described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1872. The grease moth is closely related to the genus '' Pyralis'', and as a result, is usually associated with the meal moth, ''P ...

'' (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 ''Aglossa pinguinalis'', the large tabby or grease moth, is a moth in the subfamily Pyralinae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. The dark-hued larvae feed on animal fats. Descri ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – large tabby moth * '' Aglossa pulveralis'' * '' Aglossa rabatalis'' * '' Aglossa republicana'' Kemal, Kızıldağ & Koçak, 2020 * '' Aglossa rhodalis'' Hampson, 1906 * '' Aglossa rubralis'' Hampson, 1900 * '' Aglossa signicostalis'' Staudinger, 1871 * '' Aglossa steralis'' Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 * '' Aglossa subpurpuralis'' * '' Aglossa suppunctalis'' * ''

Aglossa tanya ''Aglossa tanya'' is a species of snout moth in the genus ''Aglossa''. It was described by Alexander Steven Corbet and Willie Horace Thomas Tams in 1943 and is known to originate from India India, officially the Republic of India, is a ...

'' * '' Aglossa tenebrosalis'' Rothschild, 1915 * '' Aglossa thamii'' * '' Aglossa tinealis''

Footnotes

References

* * Grabe, Albert (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars" ''Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins'' 27: 105-109

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