| Aphomia | |
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| Bee moth (A. sociella) specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Subfamily: | Galleriinae |
| Tribe: | Tirathabini |
| Genus: | Aphomia Hübner, 1825 |
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Aphomia is a genus of small moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. Some breed in the nests of Anthophila (bees and bumblebees), where their caterpillars are parasitic feeders of wax, honey and pollen.
Species
- Aphomia argentia Whalley, 1964
- Aphomia baryptera (Lower, 1901)
- Aphomia burellus (Holland, 1900)
- Aphomia caffralis Hampson, 1917
- Aphomia curvicostella (Zerny, 1914)
- Aphomia curvicostellus (Zerny, 1914)
- Aphomia distictella Hampson, 1917
- Aphomia erumpens (Lucas, 1898)
- Aphomia euchelliellus (Snellen, 1900)
- Aphomia foedella (Zeller, 1839)
- Aphomia fulminalis (Zeller, 1872)
- Aphomia fuscolimbella (Ragonot, 1887)
- Aphomia grisea Turati, 1913
- Aphomia homochroa (Turner, 1905)
- Aphomia isodesma (Meyrick, 1886)
- Aphomia lolotialis (Caradja, 1927)
- Aphomia melli (Caradja & Meyrick, 1933)
- Aphomia monochroa (Hampson, 1912)
- Aphomia murciella (Zerny, 1914)
- Aphomia ochracea Hampson, 1917
- Aphomia odontella (Hampson, 1898)
- Aphomia opticogramma (Meyrick, 1935)
- Aphomia pimelodes Meyrick, 1936
- Aphomia poliocyma Turner, 1937
- Aphomia pygmealis (Caradja & Meyrick, 1935)
- Aphomia sabella (Hampson in Ragonot, 1901)
- Aphomia sopozhnikovi (Krulikovsky, 1909
- Aphomia sociella (Linnaeus, 1758) – bee moth
- Aphomia spoliatrix Christoph, 1881
- Aphomia taiwanalis (Shibuya, 1928)
- Aphomia terrenella Zeller, 1848
- Aphomia unicolor (Staudinger, 1880)
- Aphomia variegatella (Hampson in Ragonot, 1901)
- Aphomia vinotincta (Hampson, 1908)
- Aphomia zelleri de Joannis, 1932
The former A. pachytera is now Heteromicta pachytera.
Footnotes
- ↑ See references in Savela
References
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- Savela, Markku. "Aphomia Hübner, [1825]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
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