Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758) - Greater Wax Moth, Honeycomb Moth

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Galleria mellonella - Greater Wax Moth, Honeycomb Moth


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Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758) – Greater Wax Moth, Honeycomb Moth: Detritophagous* Pseudogonia rufifrons (Insecta) (Robinson et al. 2010)

  1. OD: Phalaena (Tinea) mellonella Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 537
  2. Tinea cerella Fabricius, 1775. Syst. Ent.: 655
  3. Galleria cerea Haworth, 1811. Lepid. Britannica (3): 392
  4. Vindana obliquella Walker, 1866. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 35: 1706. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso35brit/page/1706/mode/1up?view=theater
  5. Galleria austrina Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875; Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (5): pl. 137, f. 7. Plate at https://archive.org/details/umdieerdeindenja03akad/page/n384/mode/1up?view=theater
  6. Hampson, G. F. 1896. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol.4. Taylor & Francis, London. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs. pg. 9, # 4152, Fig. 8. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46942214#page/40/mode/1up
  7. Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758); Hampson, 1917, Novit. Zool. 24: 53. Text at https://archive.org/details/novitateszoologi24lond/page/53/mode/1up?view=theater
  8. https://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/GalleMello.htm
  9. https://www.africanmoths.com/pages/PYRALIDAE/GALLERIINAE/Galleria%20mellonella.html http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5622
  10. http://www2.nrm.se/en/svenska_fjarilar/g/galleria_mellonella.html 
  11. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/pyra/mellonella.html
 

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus, 1758) – Greater Wax Moth, Honeycomb Moth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/galleria-mellonella, accessed 2024/04/19.