Pyralis

Translingual

Pyralis centralis

Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin pyralis (“a winged insect that was supposed to live in fire”)

    Proper noun

    Pyralis f

    1. 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.

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