''Pacificulla flaviagra'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family

Lecithoceridae The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of th ...

. It was described by Kyu-Tek Park in 2013. It is found in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Note: As of November 2019, this species is spelled ''Pacificulla flaviagera'' in that source, but the online portions of "''Pacificulla'' gen. nov. of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from New Guinea, with descriptions of six new species" use the spelling ''Pacificulla flaviagra''.

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*Portion of original description: Park, Kyu-Tek & Lee, Sangmi (2013)
"''Pacificulla'' gen. nov. of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from New Guinea, with descriptions of six new species"
''Zootaxa''. 3599 (1): 67–77. F Moths of Papua New Guinea Moths described in 2013 {{Lecithoceridae-stub