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Satin White Palpita
Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Butterflies & moths

Satin White Palpita

Palpita flegia Cramer, 1777

Names

EnglishSatin White Palpita
Dutch—
SpanishPolilla Blanca Satinada
Chinese—
Sranan Tongokapelka (general name for the group)
Scientific namePalpita flegia Cramer, 1777

About this species

Palpita flegia, the satin white moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in Suriname, Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, the Caribbean and the United States, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida and Texas.

The moth is about 46 mm.

The larvae feed on Thevetia peruviana.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyCrambidae
GenusPalpita

In Suriname

1Records in Suriname
2016First record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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