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:''"Meal moth" redirects here; not to be confused with "flour moth (disambiguation)"''. ''Pyralis farinalis'', the meal moth, is a cosmopolitan moth of the family Pyralidae. Its larvae (caterpillars) are pests of certain stored foods, namely milled plant products. It is the type species of the genus ''Pyralis'', and by extension of its entire tribe (Pyralini), subfamily (Pyralinae) and family. Its synanthropic habits were noted even by 18th- and 19th-century naturalists, who described it using terms like ''domesticalis'' ("of home and hearth"), ''fraterna'' ("as close as a brother"), or the currently-valid ''farinalis'' ("of the flour").〔See references in Savela (2009)〕 At rest, adult moths (imagines) typically hold the tip of their abdomen at 90° to their body. Their upperwings are fairly colourful by moth standards, with a wingspan of 18–30 mm. Adults fly from June to August.〔Kimber (2010)〕 In Great Britain and some other locations – particularly outside its natural range – it is mostly restricted to anthropogenic habitats of stored grain, e.g. barns and warehouses. Other foods recorded as larval food are hay and straw, dried fruits, cork and even candy.〔Grabe (1942), Kimber (2010)〕 ==Synonyms== Now-obsolete scientific names of this species are:〔 * ''Asopia domesticalis'' Zeller, 1847 * ''Phalaena (Pyralis) farinalis'' Linnaeus, 1758 * ''Pyralis fraterna'' Butler, 1879 * ''Pyralis manihotalis'' Matsumura, 1900 (''non'' Guenée, 1854: preoccupied) * ''Pyralis marianii'' Hartig, 1951 * ''Pyralis meridionalis'' Schmidt, 1934 * ''Pyralis orientalis'' Amsel, 1961 * ''Pyralis sardoplumbea'' Schawerda, 1936 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pyralis farinalis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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