''Palpita vitiensis'' 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 Crambidae. It was described by John Clayton in 2008 and is found on

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

.Original Description: Clayton, J. (2008) Notes on the genus Palpita Hübner (Lep., Pyralidae, Pyraustinae) from Fiji, with descriptions of two new species. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 120 (5), 199 - 203.
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Moths described in 2008 Palpita Moths of Fiji {{Palpita-stub