Parabola (moth)

Parabola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Parabola
Janse, 1950
Species: P. butyraula
Binomial name
Parabola butyraula
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Idiophantis butyraula Meyrick, 1913

Parabola is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Parabola butyraula, which is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga).[1][2]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are fuscous with a broad light ochreous-yellow streak along the dorsum throughout, from beyond the middle dilated so as to reach half across the wing. There is a fine strongly-curved violet-whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, finely edged with dark fuscous posteriorly, margined anteriorly by an ochreous-yellow line edged with a few fuscous scales, and posteriorly on the upper half by a similar line terminated beneath by a blackish dot. The apical prominence is silvery-whitish. The hindwings are pale greyish, on the tornus tinged with whitish-ochreous.[3]

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