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Aphomia 
Bee Moth (A. sociella) specimen Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Pyralidae Subfamily: Galleriinae Tribe: Tirathabini Genus: Aphomia
Hübner, 1825Synonyms [1]
Ilithyia Berthold in Latreille, 1827
Melia Curtis, 1828
Melissoblaptes Zeller, 1839Aphomia 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.
Selected species
- Aphomia baryptera (Lower, 1901)
- Aphomia curvicostella (Zerny, 1914)
- Aphomia erumpens (Lucas, 1898)
- Aphomia foedella (Zeller, 1839)
- Aphomia fulminalis
- Aphomia fuscolimbella (Ragonot, 1887)
- Aphomia grisea Turati, 1913
- Aphomia homochroa (Turner, 1905)
- Aphomia murciella (Zerny, 1914)
- Aphomia poliocyma Turner, 1937
- Aphomia sociella – Bee Moth
- Aphomia terrenella Zeller, 1848
- Aphomia unicolor (Staudinger, 1880)
- Aphomia zelleri Joannis, 1932
The former A. pachytera is now in Heteromicta.
Footnotes
- ^ See references in Savela (2009)
References
Media related to Aphomia at Wikimedia Commons- Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Aphomia. Version of 2009-APR-07. Retrieved 2010-APR-11.
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