Galleria (moth)

Galleria
Galleria mellonella adult
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Subfamily:	Galleriinae
Genus:	Galleria Fabricius, 1798 [1]
Synonyms
"Adeona" Rafinesque, 1815 ( nomen nudum ) Cerioclepta Sodoffsky, 1837 Vindana Walker, 1866

Galleria is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Galleriinae of the family Pyralidae. The genus was erected by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798.

For a long time, Galleria remained a monotypic taxon, comprising only one species, until in 2020 a second species was described from South Korea. ^[2]

Species

Galleria currently comprises two species: ^[1]

• Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Galleria similis Roh & Song in Roh et al., 2020 ^[2]

References

1. Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2025). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". www.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
2. Roh, Seung Jin; Park, Haechul; Kim, Seong-Hyun; Kim, So-Yun; Choi, Yong-Su; Song, Jeong-Hun (2020-09-21). "A new species of Galleria Fabricius (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) from Korea based on molecular and morphological characters". ZooKeys (970): 51–61. Bibcode:2020ZooK..970...51R. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.970.54960 . PMC   7522106 . PMID   33024409.