Petula phalarata is a species of moths belonging to the family Tineidae, that was described from Rapa Iti. It is currently the only species in the genus Petula.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Subfamily: | Erechthiinae |
| Genus: | Petula Clarke, 1971 |
| Species: | P. phalarata
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| Binomial name | |
| Petula phalarata Clarke, 1971
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The wingspan is 9–16 millimetres (0.35–0.63 in). 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
edit- ^ Gates-Clarke, 1971. Lepidoptera of Rapa island.
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