Parabola butyraula

Description

Parabola is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Parabola butyraula, which is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga). The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are fuscous with a broad light ochreous-yellow streak along the dorsum throughout, from beyond the middle dilated so as to reach half across the wing. There is a fine strongly-curved violet-whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, finely edged with dark fuscous posteriorly, margined anteriorly by an ochreous-yellow line edged with a few fuscous scales, and posteriorly on the upper half by a similar line terminated beneath by a blackish dot. The apical prominence is silvery-whitish. The hindwings are pale greyish, on the tornus tinged with whitish-ochreous.