Painted Meal Moth

Pyralis pictalis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae

Pyralis pictalis, the painted meal moth or poplar pyralis, is a snout moth (family Pyralidae). It is closely related to the family's type species the meal moth (P. farinalis) and consequently belongs to the tribe Pyralini of the snout moth subfamily Pyralinae.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 4

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Sagnik Dutta Roy, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPyralis pictalis, Wikipedia contributors

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