Parabola (moth)
| Parabola | |
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| 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 | |
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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]