Galleria mellonella ( Linnaeus, 1758: 537 )

Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5197 (1), pp. 1-423 : 62

92. Galleria mellonella ( Linnaeus, 1758: 537) ( Phalaena ( Tinea ))

Type locality: not stated

= Galleria mellomella (misspell.) ( Linnaeus 1761)

= Phalaena cereana Blom, 1764: 13 , pl. 2

Type locality: Sweden, Stockholm

= Tinea cerella (misspell.) ( Fabricius 1775: 655)

= Tinea cerea (misspell.) ( Haworth 1811: 392)

= Galleria cerealis (misspell.) ( Hübner [1825] 1816–1826k: 369)

= Vindana obliquella Walker, 1866b: 1706–1707

Type locality: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo

= Galleria austrinia C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 : pl. 137 fig. 7

Type locality: South Africa

= Galleria mellonella ab. crombruggheella Dufrane, 1930: 69

Type locality: Belgium

Distribution. Indian records: Poona ( Hampson 1896b), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1945), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), West Bengal (Calcutta), Maharashtra (Poona) (Bahattacharaya 1997), Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh ( Arora 2000), Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary (Nedumangad, Trivandrum), Shendurny Wildlife Sanctuary, Kollam ( Mathew et al. 2004), Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary, Thrissur ( Mathew et al. 2005), Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary, Thiruvananthapuram ( Mathew et al. 2007), Jharkhand (Singh 2019), Punjab, Haryana ( Das et al. 2020b), Delhi ( Komal et al. 2021). Global records: Europe, Syria, West Indies ( Hampson 1896b), Sri Lanka ( Arora 2000), temperate and tropical regions, SE Asia from Thailand, W. Malaysia, Singapore, Sabah ( Robinson et al. 1994), Borneo ( Sutton et al. 2015), Korea ( Bae et al. 2008), almost Globally ( Das et al. 2020b).