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Cereophagus
Cereophagus is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Cereophagus futilalis, which is found in Argentina.
Mukia
genus of insects
Pagmanella
Pagmanella is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Pagmanella heroica, which is found in Afghanistan.
Glyphandra
Glyphandra is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1900. It contains only one species, Glyphandra biincisalis, described by the same author in the same year. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Togo.
Odilla
genus of insects
Eretmopteryx
Eretmopteryx is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Eretmopteryx flabelligera, which is found in Madagascar.
Chabulina
thumb Chabulina is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. Jay C. Shaffer and Eugene Munroe described the genus in 2007, containing the type species Ch. putrisalis and one additional species, Ch. tenera. In 2022, Koen Maes revised the genus and added another eight species.
Marwitzia
Marwitzia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Xanthophysa
Xanthophysa is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1964. It contains only one species, Xanthophysa psychialis, the xanthophysa moth, described by George Duryea Hulst in 1886. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Quebec, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Mimoschinia
Mimoschinia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Mimoschinia rufofascialis, the rufous-banded pyralid moth or barberpole caterpillar, which is found in the Caribbean, from Alberta to British Columbia, south to Texas and California and in Mexico.
Prolais
Prolais is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Prolais elbursalis, which is found in Iran.
Rhagoba
Rhagoba is an oriental genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Frederic Moore in 1888. Species of the genus resemble those of Pygospila, but can be told apart by genital differences in both sexes and by a stronger metallic blue reflection on the thorax. Species are known only from Asia, where they have been recorded from China, Vietnam, Laos, India, Nepal and Bhutan.
Eumaragma
Eumaragma is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Eumaragma orthiopis, which is found in Fiji.
Helonastes
Helonastes is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Lamprophaia
Lamprophaia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Clepsicosma
Clepsicosma is a genus of moths in the family Crambidae. As at 2022, this genus contains only one described species, Clepsicosma iridia, which is endemic to New Zealand. The species inhabits native forest in the North Island as well as the northern and western parts of the South Island down to Westland. The larval host of this species is assumed to be species of Cutty grass, possibly including Gahnia setifolia and Gahnia xanthocarpa, although the life history of this species is unknown. The adults of C. iridia are on the wing from December until May. They are nocturnal, and are attracted to li
Nehydriris
Nehydriris is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1974. It contains only one species, Nehydriris excellens, described by the same author in the same year, which is found in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Cissachroa
Cissachroa is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1937. Its only species, Cissachroa callischema, described in the same article, is found in Australia.
Nymphulosis
Nymphulosis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Nymphulosis arcanella, is found in Iraq.
Teratauxta
Teratauxta is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Teratauxta paradoxa, which is found on Sumatra.
Deuterarcha
Deuterarcha is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Edward Meyrick in 1884.
Pleonectoides
Pleonectoides is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Pleonectoides vinacea, which is found in southern India.
Nephelolychnis
Nephelolychnis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Tylostega
Tylostega is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1894.
Myrmidonistis
Myrmidonistis is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1887. It contains only one species, Myrmidonistis hoplora, described in the same article, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
Sarabotys
Sarabotys is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Eugauria
Eugauria is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Eugauria albidentata, which is found on Java.
Chabula
thumb | right | alt=Chabula moth. | Chabula moth. Chabula is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Ectadiosoma
Ectadiosoma is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Ectadiosoma straminea, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
Stenorista
Stenorista is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Paul Dognin in 1905.
Paregesta
Paregesta is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Paregesta californiensis, which is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.
Ceratoclasis
Ceratoclasis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Gadessa
Gadessa is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Salbia
Salbia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Achille Guenée in 1854.
Plantegumia
Plantegumia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The three described species are distributed in Central and South America.
Hemopsis
Hemopsis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It was described in 1987 by Jagbir Singh Kirti and H. S. Rose, with H. dissipatalis as type species. The genus is placed in the Spilomelinae tribe Nomophilini and currently comprises five species that are found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. ==Species== Hemopsis abstracta Yu & Du, 2025 Hemopsis angustalis (Snellen, 1890) Hemopsis coalita Yu & Du, 2025 Hemopsis dissipatalis (Lederer, 1863) Hemopsis heteroidea Yu & Du, 2025
Midilambia
Midilambia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Midilambia colombiana, which is found in Colombia.
Malgasochilo
Malgasochilo is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Malgasochilo autarotellus, which is found in Madagascar (Nosy Be). The forewings of this species are dull-greyish brown with a length of 12 mm.
Chrysophyllis
Chrysophyllis is a genus of the grass moth family (Crambidae). It is monotypic, containing the single species Chrysophyllis lucivaga. This moth is very little known, having only been recorded once, before 1935. It belongs to the large grass moth subfamily Spilomelinae; at the time of its description, these were still included in subfamily Pyraustinae and the entire Crambidae was then merged with the snout moths (family Pyralidae). While its exact relationships are undetermined, it is believed to be a close relative of Talanga (but see below). Like these (and some other, unrelated, moths), the
Leucophotis
Leucophotis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Leucophotis pulchra, which is found on Fiji.
Gibeauxia
Gibeauxia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Gibeauxia gibeauxi, which is found in French Guiana.
Tanaophysa
Tanaophysa is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by William Warren in 1892.
Enyocera
Enyocera is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Enyocera latilimbalis, which is found on Sumatra.
Kerbela
genus of insects
Hedyleptopsis
Hedyleptopsis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Hedyleptopsis flava, which is found in Indonesia (Sulawesi).
Nephelobotys
Nephelobotys is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Nephelobotys nephelistalis, which is found in Hubei, China.
Bocchoropsis
Bocchoropsis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Neomusotima
Neomusotima is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Arnia
genus of insects
Oligernis
Oligernis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Oligernis endophthalma, which is found on Borneo.
Malaciotis
Malaciotis is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1934. It contains only one species, Malaciotis thiogramma, described by the same author in the same year, which is found in Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Gypodes
Gypodes is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Gypodes vexilliferalis, which is found in Brazil (Pará).
Polygrammopsis
Polygrammopsis is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1960. Its only species, Polygrammopsis forsteri, described in the same paper, is found in Ecuador.
Pseudlithosia
Pseudlithosia is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1907. It contains only one species, Pseudlithosia schausi, described by the same author in the same year, which is found in Jalisco, Mexico.
Contiger
Contiger is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Contiger vittatalis, which is found on North America, where it has been recorded from Florida.
Alatuncusiodes
Alatuncusiodes is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Alatuncusiodes korytkowskii, which is found in Peru.
Orthospila
Orthospila is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was first described by William Warren in 1890.
Novocrambus
Novocrambus is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Novocrambus propygmaeus, which is found in Colombia and Guyana.
Symmoracma
Symmoracma is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1894. Its only species, Symmoracma minoralis, described by Snellen in 1880, is found in Indonesia (Java, Sumbawa), Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, China and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
Rhimphaliodes
Rhimphaliodes is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1893. Its only species, Rhimphaliodes macrostigma, described by the same author in the same year, is found in Sri Lanka, on Borneo and in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.