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Patissa pulverea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Crambidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Patissa

Patissa pulverea is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1919. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is about 24 mm for males and 26 mm. The forewings are white, irrorated with fuscous and with a black point at the lower angle of the cell. There is a curved fuscous line from the apex to the middle of the inner margin, as well as a terminal series of black points. There are traces of a line on the hindwings, from the apex to the tornus formed by slight fuscous irroration. There is also a terminal series of black points.

References

Patissa pulverea Wikipedia