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The Pyralini are a tribe of snout moths described by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. They belong to the subfamily Pyralinae, which contains the "typical" snout moths of the Old World and some other regions. The genus list presented here is provisional.
Cyana is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
Orthonama obstipata, the gem, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. It is a cosmopolitan species. In continental Europe though in the northeast, its range does not significantly extend beyond the Baltic region and it is absent from northern Russia. This well-flying species is prone to vagrancy and able to cross considerable distances of open sea; it can thus be regularly found on the British Isles and even on Iceland.
The brown-dotted clothes moth is a species of tineoid moth. It belongs to the fungus moth family (Tineidae), and therein to the nominate subfamily Tineinae. It is the type species of its genus Niditinea.
The black-lyre leafroller moth is a tortrix moth species. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Siccia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
Scirpophaga is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1832. Asian species include significant rice stemborer pests.
Arsacia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae. Its only species is Arsacia rectalis. Both the genus and species were described by Francis Walker, the genus in 1866 and the species in 1863. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Queensland and the Solomon Islands.
Tolpia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker in 1863. The genus used to be included in the family Noctuidae.
Phrataria is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Francis Walker in 1863. All the species in this genus are known from Australia.
Semiothisa is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818.
Zermizinga is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae erected by Francis Walker in 1863. Its only species, Zermizinga sinuata, the lucerne looper or spider moth, was described by Warren in 1897. It is found in the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
Adoxophyes is a genus of moths of the tribe Archipini.
Cimitra is a genus of moths belonging to the family of Tineidae. Most species of this genus are found in Africa but Cimitra sechusella Walker, 1864 is found in Southeast Asia.
Herculia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. The genus is mostly treated as a synonym of Hypsopygia. If considered valid, some species previously placed here are now in Dolichomia and Ocrasa, which in turn are also mostly merged in Hypsopygia. O. fulvocilialis is sometimes still placed in the present genus.
Praeacedes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Tineidae first described by Hans Georg Amsel in 1954. Its only species, Praeacedes atomosella, was first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It has a wide range and has been recorded from Europe, Australia, Hawaii, India, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, Easter Island, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, South America and North America. The species has commonly been misidentified in various parts of the world.
Hemerophila is a genus of moths in the family Choreutidae. A number of species was recently transferred to the genus Ornarantia.
The Chrysauginae are a subfamily of snout moths. They are primarily Neotropical and include about 400 described species.
Lamoria adaptella, the plain lamoria, is a species of snout moth in the genus Lamoria. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863 and is known from South Africa, the Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Singapore, as well as Japan and Taiwan.
Calindoea is a genus of moths belonging to the family Thyrididae.
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- 1 2 "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 10 May 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ "Catadupa Walker, 1863" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms