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Family Pyralid Snout Moths (Pyralidae)

Pyralidae is a family in the order Lepidoptera. Browse 523 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Pyralidae (523)

Salebriaria bella - Hodges#5774.2

Salebriaria bella

Identification: A partial account is given by Neunzig.

Salebriaria borealis - Hodges#5772.1

Salebriaria borealis

Salebriaria borealis - Hodges#5772.1 (Salebriaria borealis) is a species in the family Pyralidae, commonly known as pyralid moths, belonging to the order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). It is classified within the subfamily Phycitinae, tribe Phy

Engel's Salebriaria - Hodges#5773

Salebriaria engeli

Identification: The Dyar original description as Salebria engeli is online in the print references below. The Heinrich revised description of Salebriaria engeli is in PDF. Adult: forewing dark brownish-gray with prominent white patch mid-way along in

Salebriaria floridana - Hodges#5776.1

Salebriaria floridana

Identification: Description can be found in MONA Fascicle 15-5 at link in citations below.

Salebriaria pumilella - Hodges#5776

Salebriaria pumilella

Identification: Heinrich revised description can be viewed online from the print references .

White-patched Salebriaria - Hodges#5775.3

Salebriaria squamopalpiella

Identification: Adult : Grayish brown FW has a large whitish patch covering much of outer half of FW, liberally peppered with black scales. White extends toward inner margin in AM and PM areas.

Salebriaria tenebrosella - Hodges#5775

Salebriaria tenebrosella

Salebriaria tenebrosella - Hodges#5775 (Salebriaria tenebrosella) is a species in the family Pyralidae, commonly known as pyralid moths, belonging to the order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). It is classified within the subfamily Phycitinae, tri

Salebriaria turpidella - Hodges#5771

Salebriaria turpidella

Identification: A full account is given by Neunzig.

Salobrena recurvata - Hodges#5560

Salobrena recurvata

Identification: The original description as Abaera rubiginea Hampson, is available online in the print references below. Sexually dimorphic. Photo identified by James Hayden , (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, McGuire Center).

Salobrena sincera - Hodges#5559

Salobrena sincera

Identification: Species page created based on this image determined by Ed Knudson, Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston:

Satole ligniperdalis - Hodges#5562

Satole ligniperdalis

Identification: Adult - see original description in Print References. Powell & Opler note pronounced dimorphism, two color forms for each sex, and the male with the costa enlarged at the base and folded over to form a pouch sealed with a tympanum-lik

Yellow-shouldered Leafroller - Hodges#5799

Sciota basilaris

Identification: Adult : FW blue-gray with red and ochre basal area. AM whitish, jagged and shaded black distally

Hackberry Leafroller - Hodges#5803

Sciota celtidella

comes to lights frequently (James McDermott, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2015)

Sciota fraudifera - Hodges#5790.1

Sciota fraudifera

Identification: Externally most similar to S. carneella ; genitalia similar to those of fraudifera

Sciota tarmitalis - Hodges#5800

Sciota tarmitalis

Identification: Heinrich revised description in PDF.

Sweetgum Leafroller Moth

Sciota uvinella

Sciota uvinella, the sweetgum leafroller moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Sciota. It was described by Ragonot in 1887. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas and Kentucky.

Black-spotted Leafroller - Hodges#5797

Sciota virgatella

page creation based on Brian Scholtens' identification of this image , as reported by Bob Patterson

Seeboldia incanella - Hodges#5868

Seeboldia incanella

Identification: Adult : FW slender, heavily speckled with black, white, gray, and some brownish scales • Indistinct blackish spot in AM area near inner margin, preceded by diffuse, white crescent • two indistinct blackish spots, near middle of dist

Sosipatra nonparilella - Hodges#6018

Sosipatra nonparilella

Identification: Description can be found in MONA Fascicle 15-3 at link in citations below.

Streptopalpia minusculalis - Hodges#5565

Streptopalpia minusculalis

Moth Musical Chairs: Heliades mulleolella (5574) had previously been thought to be Streptopalpia minusculalis (5564), which had previously been thought to be Salobrena vacuana (5560.1)

Stylopalpia scobiella - Hodges#5820

Stylopalpia scobiella

Identification: Palpi upturned; head, thorax, and base of FWs mostly unmarked buff, usually with just a few small brown spots, often blending into a dull reddish streak along inner margin of FWs; diffuse creamy white streak along costa speckled with

Long-legged Tabby

Synaphe punctalis

Synaphe punctalis is a moth of the family Pyralidae described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in Europe.

Tacoma feriella - Hodges#5901

Tacoma feriella

Identification: "Expands 20 mm. Palpi gray, white beneath ; head and thorax dark gray with a bluish shade; abdomen fuscous gray, interlined with light gray; fore wings dark gray with a bluish shade; lines whitish, the inner nearly at middle, angulate

Tallula atrifascialis - Hodges#5591

Tallula atrifascialis

T. watsoni is found in extreme coastal Georgia, much of Florida and the southern tip of Texas. The am. line is typically fairly straight whereas in atrifascialis it is angled outwardly below the cell giving the am. band a more constricted appearance.

Tallula fieldi - Hodges#5594

Tallula fieldi

Identification: The original description of Tallula fieldi Barnes & McDunnough, is available online in the print references below.

Watson's Tallula Moth - Hodges#5592

Tallula watsoni

Identification: Habitus Drawing T. watsoni is found in extreme coastal Georgia, much of Florida and the southern tip of Texas. The am. line is typically fairly straight whereas in atrifascialis it is angled outwardly below the cell giving the am. ban

Telethusia ovalis - Hodges#5812

Telethusia ovalis

Identification: Original description is available online.

Thyridopyralis gallaerandialis - Hodges#5628

Thyridopyralis gallaerandialis

Identification: See original description in the print references below. Type locality: USA, Florida, Key West

Tlascala Moth - Hodges#5808

Tlascala reductella

Identification: Adult: forewing banded with various colors in this order from base to tip: brownish, black, whitish, pale brownish-gray; two black discal spots in median area; subterminal line black, toothed, irregular; terminal line a series of blac

Tosale aucta - Hodges#5558

Tosale aucta

Identification: Determined by Bob Patterson. forewing fold on ♂. ♀ Ed Knudson (Texas Lepidoptera Survey) noted "The female lacks the scoop-like fold on the forewing, and lacks the large black spot on the hindwing" ( 3 )

Tosale similalis - Hodges#5557

Tosale similalis

Identification: Adult - Barnes & Benjamin described the forewings of males as ochreous-brown and females as olivaceous.

Triozosneura dorsonotata - Hodges#5735

Triozosneura dorsonotata

Near Coptarthria , Anadelosemia , Gabinius , and Ceracanthia based on venation and genital characters in Heinrich's monograph.

Ufa rubedinella - Hodges#5895

Ufa rubedinella

Identification: Adult: sexually dimorphic - male forewing brownish-red beyond PM line and along costa but pale yellowish elsewhere; female forewing reddish-brown except for pale strip along costa; both sexes with one or two dark discal dots in median

Uncinus obductella

Wingspan 23 to 26 mm. An attractive reddish brown species. In view of the rarity of this moth in our area, please provide a photograph and retain the specimen in case it is required by the County Recorder. It inhabits grassland and chalk quarries whe

Varneria atrifasciella - Hodges#6030

Varneria atrifasciella

Identification: Description can be found in MONA Fascicle 15-3 at link in citations below.

American Wax Moth - Hodges#6007

Vitula edmandsii

Identification: Adult : Distinctive blue-grey FW ground color, with a slight rosy suffusion with blackish markings. "In western North America the driedfruit moth, Vitula serratilineella Ragonot, is a pest of stored raisins, prunes, dried apple and ot

Vitula serratilineella - Hodges#6007.1

Vitula serratilineella

Identification: Specimens identified by DNA analysis: Considered by some authors to be a western race or form of Vitula edmandsii . A known pest of mason bees (and also of dried fruit)

Zophodia grossulariella - Hodges#5968

Zophodia grossulariella

Identification: Genitalia: Distribution is holarctic (in North America and Europe at least to the Urals). Some state this species was introduced to North America from Europe (see here ). Others state it may have been introduced in the old world. Powe