Maruca vitrata Fabricius, 1787

Identification Marks: Palpi white below, porrect and triangularly scaled, 3rd joint hidden by hair, maxillary palpi slightly dilated with scales; antennae are longer than fore wing and annulated. Head, thorax and abdomen is fuscous brown; legs are long, tibia with the outer spurs about half the length of inner; abdomen long. Fore wing is fuscous brown; the costal area tinged with fulvous; indistinct subbasal and antemedial lines across the cell and white spots below the cell; a lunulate black- edged white spot in end of cell; a maculate black edged semi-hyaline band beyond the cell from below the costa to vein 2. Hind wing semi-hyaline white; the basal costal area fuscous and a spot at upper angle of cell; two indistinct sinuous postmedial lines; a marginal fulvous-brown and fuscous band from cost a to vein 1 c, its inner edge very irregular. (W.S. 24 mm).