Palepicorsia

Palepicorsia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Pyraustinae
Genus: Palepicorsia
Maes, 1995
Species:
P. ustrinalis
Binomial name
Palepicorsia ustrinalis
(Christoph, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Botys ustrinalis Christoph, 1877
  • Metasia emiralis Oberthür, 1888
  • Metasia excavatalis Ragonot in Staudinger, 1892
  • Scopula palmalis Swinhoe, 1884

Palepicorsia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Palepicorsia ustrinalis, which is found on Sardinia and in France, Spain and Portugal, as well as in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Iran, Pakistan and North Africa, including Tunisia.