Patissa pulverea

Patissa pulverea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Patissa
Species: P. pulverea
Binomial name
Patissa pulverea
(Hampson, 1919)
Synonyms
  • Donacaula pulverea Hampson, 1919

Patissa pulverea is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1919.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2]

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.[3]

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