Pyralis
Translingual
editEtymology
editLatin pyralis (“a winged insect that was supposed to live in fire”)
Proper noun
editPyralis 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 - type species
References
edit- Pyralis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pyralis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Pyralis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons