Aglossa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Pyraloidea

Familia: Pyralidae
Subfamilia: Pyralinae
Tribus: Pyralini
Genus: Aglossa
Species: A. acallalis – A. achatina – A. aethiopialis – A. baba – A. brabanti – A. cacamica – A. caprealis – A. costiferalis – A. cuprina – A. dimidiata – A. disciferalis – A. domalis – A. electalis – A. exsucealis – A. fuliginosalis – A. furva – A. gigantalis – A. guicciardii – A. humberti – A. mayrae – A. micalialis – A. mineti – A. mirei – A. oculalis – A. oranalis – A. phaealis – A. pinguinalis – A. region – A. rhodalis – A. rubralis – A. signicostalis – A. streatfieldii – A. tenebrosalis – A. tinealis – A. viettei – A. wolloensis
Name

Aglossa Latreille, 1796

Type species: Phalaena pinguinalis Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms

Euclita Hübner, 1825. TS: Phalaena pinguinalis Linnaeus, 1758
Philotis Ragonot, 1891. TS: Philotis radamalis Ragonot, 1891
Agriope Ragonot, 1891. TS: Aglossa brabanti Ragonot, 1884

Adult grease moth (A. pinguinalis)

References

Lee, Bong-Woo & Yang-Seop Bae, 2007: A review of the tribe Pyralini Latreille (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Pyralinae) from Korea. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 58 (1): 47–68. Full article: [1].
Leraut, P., 2006: Study of some genera of Pyralinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie 23 (1): 57–74.
Solis, M.A. & M. Shaffer, 1999: Contribution towards the study of the Pyralinae (Pyralidae): historical review, morphology, and nomenclature. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 53 (1): 1–10. Full article: [2].
Viette, P.E.L. 1973. Nouvelle espèces de Pyrales de Madagascar (Lepidoptera). Entomops 4(31): 215–220. Reference page.

Aglossa is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. It was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1796. 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 republicana Kemal, Kızıldağ & Koçak, 2020[3]
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

See references in Savela (2009)
Grabe (1942)

Kemal, Muhabbet; Kızıldağ, Sibel; Koçak, Ahmet Ömer (2020). "On the genus Aglossa of Turkey with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea)". Miscellaneous Papers. Ankara. 207: 1–7.

References
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. "Aglossa Latreille, 1796". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 20, 2017.