Aglossa asiatica

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Aglossa asiatica is a species of snout moth in the genus Aglossa, family Pyralidae. It was described in 1872 by Nikolay Erschoff. The species is found in Uzbekistan, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, and on Crete and Cyprus. It is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of Aglossa pinguinalis. Synonyms include Aglossa maceralis (Chrétien, 1891), Aglossa pinguinalis var. abdidalis (Christoph, 1873), Aglossa asiatica indistincta (Corbet & Tams, 1943), and Aglossa abdidalis (Christoph, 1873).