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Dame's Rocket Moth
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Dame's Rocket Moth

Plutella porrectella

Plutella porrectella is a moth of the family Plutellidae found in Europe, the Caucasus, southern Siberia and Asia Minor.

The wingspan is 14–17 mm. The head is ochreous-whitish, with central fuscous line. Tuft of palpi long. Forewings pale ochreous, suffusedly streaked with whitish; costa and dorsum blackish - dotted; a whitish subdorsal longitudinal line, thrice sinuate upwards, margined above with an ocbreous-brownish suffusion and some blackish scales, darkest in the depressions discal stigmata usually indicated by dark fuscous dashes termen ochreous-brown, spotted with black. Hindwings are light grey. The larva is light green; dorsal line darker; dots black; head brownish - marked.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 228423.