Petula (moth)

Petula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Subfamily:	Erechthiinae
Genus:	Petula; J.F.G.Clarke, 1971
Species:	P. phalarata
Binomial name
	Petula phalarata; J.F.G.Clarke, 1971
Type species
	Petula phalarata; J.F.G.Clarke, 1971

Petula is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae. There is presently only one species in this genus: Petula phalarata, that was described from Rapa Iti.

The wingspan is 9–16 mm. The forewing ground color is fuscous black, on the middle of the dorsum with a cream buff spot (in females, the spot is suffused, larger, and not as sharply defined as in males), sometimes extended as a narrow cream buff line on the dorsal edge. At the end of the cell is an ill-defined black spot. The hindwings are grey, paler basally, with a brassy hue.^[1]

References[]

^ Gates-Clarke, 1971. Lepidoptera of Rapa island.

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[1] Gates-Clarke, 1971. Lepidoptera of Rapa island.

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