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Large Tabby

Aglossa pinguinalis

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Pyralidae

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.

Distribution

Martien van den Heuvel · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 1,692Germany · 1,610United Kingdom · 229France · 195Spain · 101Italy · 88Switzerland · 56Luxembourg · 24Belgium · 13