pyralid in English

noun
1
an insect of a family ( Pyralidae ) of small delicate moths with narrow forewings. The larvae of many species are pests of stored foodstuffs.
Greater wax moths are tympanate pyralid moths, with four sensory cells that have similar frequency responses with different thresholds.

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