Cassiana

This article is about the genus of moths. For the former legume genus, see Cassia (genus).

Cassiana is a monotypic snout moth genus described by Carl Heinrich in 1956. Its only species, Cassiana malacella, was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914.^[1] It is found in Mexico, the southern United States,^[2] the British Virgin Islands^[3] Puerto Rico and Bermuda.

Cassiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Subfamily:	Phycitinae
Genus:	Cassiana Heinrich, 1956[1]
Species:	C. malacella
Binomial name
Cassiana malacella (Dyar, 1914)
Synonyms
Vitula malacella Dyar, 1914

The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are pale grayish fuscous, although the area between the cell and the costa is white with a faint, scattered dusting of reddish scales. The hindwings are whitish, the veins outlined by dark scales, and a narrow smoky border along the termen and costa.^[4]