''Myelois'' is a
genus
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of small
moths
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
belonging to the
family
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Pyralidae
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyrali ...
. They are found in western
Eurasia
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and adjacent regions such as the
Maghreb
The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...
.
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of ''Myelois'' include:
* ''
Myelois albistriga''
Erschoff, 1874
* ''
Myelois cinctipalpella''
Christoph, 1877
* ''
Myelois circumvoluta
''Myelois circumvoluta'', the thistle ermine, is a small moth species of the family Pyralidae. It is found in Europe.
This pyralid has a pattern of black dots on its whitish forewings, resembling many ermine moths (family Yponomeutidae). Among ...
''
(Fourcroy, 1785) – thistle ermine
* ''
Myelois cribratella''
Zeller, 1847
* ''
Myelois echinopisella''
Chrétien, 1911
* ''
Myelois famula''
Zeller, 1881
* ''
Myelois fuscicostella''
Mann, 1861
* ''
Myelois multiflorella''
Ragonot, 1887
* ''
Myelois mystica''
Roesler, 1988
* ''
Myelois osseella''
Ragonot, 1887
* ''
Myelois ossicolor''
Ragonot, 1893
* ''
Myelois pluripunctella''
Ragonot, 1887
* ''
Myelois pollinella''
Christoph, 1877
* ''
Myelois urbicella''
Erschoff, 1874
* ''
Myelois vestaliella''
Erschoff, 1874
Formerly included here were related genera like ''
Apomyelois''. The genus ''Kyra'' is sometimes listed as a
junior synonym
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
of ''Myelois'', but its
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
is usually now placed in ''
Eurhodope
''Eurhodope'' is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge'' (1796–1805 ...
'' (as ''
E. cirrigerella'').
[FE (2011) contra references in Savela (2009)]
Footnotes
References
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Fauna Europaea Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. It serves as a standard taxonomic source for animal taxonomy within the Pan-European Species directories Infras ...
(2011)
''Eurhodope cirrigerella'' Version 2.4, 27 January 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
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Phycitini
Pyralidae genera
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