Monoptilota

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

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| parent_authority = Hulst, 1900{{cite web |last=Nuss |first=M. |display-authors=etal |date=2003–2011 |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search |website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |accessdate=October 7, 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5736 |title=800522.00 – 5736 – Monoptilota pergratialis – Lima-bean Vine Borer Moth – (Hulst, 1886)|website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=August 11, 2019}}

| taxon = Monoptilota pergratialis

| authority = (Hulst, 1886)

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• Nephopteryx pergratialis Hulst, 1886
• Monoptilota nubilella Hulst, 1900
• Nephopteryx grotella Ragonot, 1887

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Monoptilota is a genus of snout moths. It was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1900. It contains only one species, the lima-bean vine borer moth (Monoptilota pergratialis), which is found in the central and south-eastern parts of the United States.{{cite web|url=http://ipm.ncsu.edu/ag295/html/limabean_vine_borer.htm |title=Limabean Vine Borer |publisher=Ipm.ncsu.edu |accessdate=October 7, 2011}}

The wingspan is 21–23 mm. There are three generations per year in North Carolina.

The larvae have been recorded on Phaseolus lunatus, snap bean, Vigna unguiculata and Dahlia species. Larvae can be found from May to October.