Aglossa cuprina
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"Grease moth" redirects here. For the other moth with this common name, see Aglossa pinguinalis.
Aglossa cuprina, the grease moth, is a snout moth, family Pyralidae, described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1872.[1][2][3][4] The grease moth is closely related to the genus Pyralis,[5] and as a result, is usually associated with the meal moth, Pyralis farinalis.
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Aglossa cuprina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pyralidae |
Genus: | Aglossa |
Species: | A. cuprina |
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Aglossa cuprina (Zeller, 1872) | |
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Aglossa cuprina ingests grease produced by the bacteria that feed on decaying matter.[6]