 Adult females of Pyralinae (except "Cardamyla" and "Embryoglossa") are characterized by the short genital ductus bursae, their corpus bursae barely extending forward beyond abdominal segment 7.Otherwise they are rather nondescript mid-sized moths (large by Pyralidae standards) which at least sometimes can be distinguished from their relatives by possessing forewing vein 7 and having hindwing veins 7 and 8 unjoined as adults.The meal moth ("Pyralis farinalis") and the grease moth ("Aglossa pinguinalis") are pests of stored food products, in the case of the grease moth including fats (which are also eaten by the adult moths), and have been inadvertently spread almost worldwide by transport of such goods.