{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pyralis.farinalis.7458.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Pyralis | authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae|<nowiki>[</nowiki>1758<nowiki>]</nowiki>]] | synonyms = * ''Aletes'' <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> * ''Asopia'' <small>Treitschke, 1828</small> * ''Ceropsina'' <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> * ''Sacatia'' <small>Walker, 1863</small> * ''Spyrella'' <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> }}
'''''Pyralis''''' is a genus of [[Pyralidae|snout moths]] and currently contains 87 described species.<ref name=GlobIZ>{{cite web |url=https://www.pyraloidea.org/indexf41b.html?id=10 |title=Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ) |last1=Nuss |first1=Matthias |last2=Landry |first2=Bernard |last3=Mally |first3=Richard |last4=Vegliante |first4=Francesca |last5=Tränkner |first5=Andreas |last6=Bauer |first6=Franziska |last7=Hayden |first7=James |last8=Segerer |first8=Andreas |last9=Schouten |first9=Rob |last10=Li |first10=Houhun |last11=Trofimova |first11=Tatiana |last12=Solis |first12=M. Alma |author-link12=Maria Alma Solis |last13=De Prins |first13=Jurate |last14=Speidel |first14=Wolfgang |date=2003–2026 |access-date=2026-05-04}}</ref> It was [[Species description|described]] by [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758.<ref>{{cite web |first=Markku |last=Savela |url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/pyralidae/pyralinae/pyralis/ |title=''Pyralis'' Linnaeus, 1758 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=September 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Linnæus|first=Carl|title=Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I|year=1758|publisher=Laurentius Salvius|location=Holmiæ|page=533|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/80764#page/543/mode/1up|edition=10|access-date=28 November 2012|language=Latin}}</ref>
==Selected species== {{Div col}} * ''[[Pyralis cardinalis]]'' <small> Kaila, Huemer, Mutanen, Tyllinen & Wikström, 2020</small><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wikström |first1=Bo |last2=Huemer |first2=Peter |last3=Mutanen |first3=Marko |last4=Tyllinen |first4=Juha |last5=Kaila |first5=Lauri |date=2020 |title=''Pyralis cardinalis'', a charismatic new species related to ''P. regalis'' [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775, first recognized in Finland (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) |journal=Nota "Lepidopterologica |volume=43 |pages=337-364 |doi=10.3897/nl.43.54916 |doi-access=free |hdl=10138/321970 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> * ''[[Pyralis caustica]]'' <small>(Meyrick, 1884)</small> * ''[[Pyralis costinotalis]]'' <small>Hampson, 1917</small> * ''[[Pyralis electalis]]'' <small>Hulst, 1886</small> * ''[[Pyralis farinalis]]'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> * ''[[Pyralis faviusalis]]'' <small>Walker, 1859</small> * ''[[Pyralis haematinalis]]'' <small>(Saalmüller, 1880)</small> * ''[[Pyralis joannisi]]'' <small>Leraut, 2005</small> * ''[[Pyralis kacheticalis]]'' <small>(Christoph, 1893)</small> * ''[[Pyralis laudatella]]'' <small>Walker, 1863</small> * ''[[Pyralis lienigialis]]'' <small>Zeller, 1843</small> * ''[[Pyralis manihotalis]]'' <small>Guenée, 1854</small> * ''[[Pyralis palesalis]]'' <small>Walker, 1859</small> * ''[[Pyralis papaleonei]]'' <small>Huemer, Kaila & Segerer, 2026</small><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Huemer |first1=Peter |last2=Kaila |first2=Lauri |last3=Segerer |first3=Andreas H. |date=2026 |title=''Pyralis papaleonei'' sp. nov. from Crete (Greece) (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) |journal=Nota Lepidopterologica |volume=49 |pages=63-74 |doi=10.3897/nl.49.185483 |doi-access=free }}</ref> * ''[[Pyralis perversalis]]'' <small>Herrich-Schäffer, 1849</small> * ''[[Pyralis pictalis]]'' <small>(J. Curtis, 1834)</small> * ''[[Pyralis regalis]]'' <small>Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775</small> * ''[[Pyralis subjectalis]]'' <small>Walker, 1866</small> * ''[[Pyralis transcaspica]]'' <small>Rebel, 1903</small> * ''[[Pyralis trifascialis]]'' <small>Moore, 1877</small> {{Div col end}} ==Former species== * ''[[Pyralis preciosalis]]'' <small>Guillermet in Viette & Guillermet, 1996</small>
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