Palnissa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Micronoctuidae
Subfamilia: Magninae
Tribus: Magnini
Genus: Palnissa
Species: P. spatula
Name

Palnissa Fibiger, 2008

Type species: Palnissa spatula Fibiger, 2008
References

Fibiger.2008. Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera:Noctuoidea).Part 2,Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae.

Zootaxa 1867: 1–136. [1]
Palnissa is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Palnissa spatula, is known from the Palani Hills of south-central India. Both the genus and the species were first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008.

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewing is long, pointed and grey and brownish. The crosslines are broad and black at the costa. The terminal line is marked by black interveinal dots. The hindwing is light greyish with an indistinct discal spot. The fringes are whitish. The underside is beige, although the underside of the hindwing is whitish with an indistinct discal spot.
References

Fibiger, Michael (2008). "Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae and Parachrostiinae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1867: 1–136. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1867.1.1.