Patania

Patania
Patania violacealis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Spilomelinae
Tribe: Agroterini
Genus: Patania
Moore, 1888
Synonyms
  • Loxoscia Warren, 1890
  • Nagia Walker, 1866
  • Pleuroptya Meyrick, 1890

Patania is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Frederic Moore in 1888.

Patania was long considered a junior synonym of Syllepte, but in 2007 it was removed from this synonymy and reinstated as a valid genus. With this action, Patania became the senior synonym to the widely used genus name Pleuroptya, making the latter a junior subjective synonym. Since then, the genus underwent further taxonomic changes, such as the transfer of some species to the reinstated genus Nagiella.