Galleria (moth)
| Galleria | |
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| Galleria mellonella adult | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Subfamily: | Galleriinae |
| Genus: | Fabricius, 1798[1] |
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Galleria is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Galleriinae of the family Pyralidae. The genus was erected by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798.
For a long time, Galleria remained a monotypic taxon, comprising only one species, until in 2020 a second species was described from South Korea.[2]
Species
Galleria currently comprises two species:[1]
- Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Galleria similis Roh & Song in Roh et al., 2020[2]
References
- ^ a b Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2025). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". www.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
- ^ a b Roh, Seung Jin; Park, Haechul; Kim, Seong-Hyun; Kim, So-Yun; Choi, Yong-Su; Song, Jeong-Hun (2020-09-21). "A new species of Galleria Fabricius (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) from Korea based on molecular and morphological characters". ZooKeys (970): 51–61. Bibcode:2020ZooK..970...51R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.970.54960. PMC 7522106. PMID 33024409.