Pyralis
Appearance
Translingual
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Etymology
[edit]Latin pyralis (“a winged insect that was supposed to live in fire”)
Proper noun
[edit]Pyralis f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Pyralidae – certain snout moths.
- 1975, L. Schulze, J. M. M. Brown, A Review of Silk Production and Spinning Activities in Arthropoda (in English):
- Instead, the tubes contained caterpillars of a Pyralis species (Lepidoptera) (pl. 13: 1), and only one tube was built by a Drosochrus species.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Ditrysia – division; Tineina – section; Tineina – subsection; Pyraloidea – superfamily; Pyralidae – family; Pyralinae – subfamily; Pyralini – tribe
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Pyralis farinalis (meal moth) – type species
References
[edit]Pyralis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pyralis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Pyralis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons