Aphomia 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.
Species
- Aphomia argentia <small>Whalley, 1964</small>
- Aphomia baryptera <small>(Lower, 1901)</small>
- Aphomia burellus <small>(Holland, 1900)</small>
- Aphomia caffralis <small>Hampson, 1917</small>
- Aphomia curvicostella <small>(Zerny, 1914)</small>
- Aphomia curvicostellus <small>(Zerny, 1914)</small>
- Aphomia distictella <small>Hampson, 1917</small>
- Aphomia erumpens <small>(Lucas, 1898)</small>
- Aphomia euchelliellus <small>(Snellen, 1900)</small>
- Aphomia foedella <small>(Zeller, 1839)</small>
- Aphomia fulminalis <small>(Zeller, 1872)</small>
- Aphomia fuscolimbella <small>(Ragonot, 1887)</small>
- Aphomia grisea <small>Turati, 1913</small>
- Aphomia homochroa <small>(Turner, 1905)</small>
- Aphomia isodesma <small>(Meyrick, 1886)</small>
- Aphomia lolotialis <small>(Caradja, 1927)</small>
- Aphomia melli <small>(Caradja & Meyrick, 1933)</small>
- Aphomia monochroa <small>(Hampson, 1912)</small>
- Aphomia murciella <small>(Zerny, 1914)</small>
- Aphomia ochracea <small>Hampson, 1917</small>
- Aphomia odontella <small>(Hampson, 1898)</small>
- Aphomia opticogramma <small>(Meyrick, 1935)</small>
- Aphomia pimelodes <small>Meyrick, 1936</small>
- Aphomia poliocyma <small>Turner, 1937</small>
- Aphomia pygmealis <small>(Caradja & Meyrick, 1935)</small>
- Aphomia sabella <small>(Hampson in Ragonot, 1901)</small>
- Aphomia sopozhnikovi <small>(Krulikovsky, 1909</small>
- Aphomia sociella <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> – bee moth
- Aphomia spoliatrix <small>Christoph, 1881</small>
- Aphomia taiwanalis <small>(Shibuya, 1928)</small>
- Aphomia terrenella <small>Zeller, 1848</small>
- Aphomia unicolor <small>(Staudinger, 1880)</small>
- Aphomia variegatella <small>(Hampson in Ragonot, 1901)</small>
- Aphomia vinotincta <small>(Hampson, 1908)</small>
- Aphomia zelleri <small>de Joannis, 1932</small>
The former A. pachytera is now Heteromicta pachytera.
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