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Palpita flegia (Cramer, 1777)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Lepidoptera

Superfamily
Pyraloidea

Family
Pyralidae

Genus
Palpita

Species
flegia

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Santa Cruz

References

Roque-Albelo, L. Landry, B. (2016) CDF Checklist of Galapagos Butterflies and Moths Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, 32 pp.
Landry, B. (2016) Taxonomic revision of the Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s. l.) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Revue suisse de Zoologie (September 2016) 123(2): 315-399 - ISSN 0035-418

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"Galapagos Species Database, Palpita flegia", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7285. Accessed 13 August 2025.