''Vitula setonella'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...

in the genus ''

Vitula ''Vitula'' is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887. Species * ''Vitula aegerella'' Neunzig, 1990 * ''Vitula biviella'' Zeller, 1848 * ''Vitula broweri'' (Heinrich, 1956) * ''Vitula coconinoana'' Neunzig, 199 ...

''. It was described by

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in 1927. It is found in

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and

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. The

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is 14–16 mm.

References

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