Nagiella quadrimaculalis

{{Short description|Species of moth}}

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| taxon = Nagiella quadrimaculalis

| authority = (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844)

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| Scopula quadrimaculalis | Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844

| Nagia desmialis | Walker, 1866

| Nagiella desmialis | (Walker, 1866)

| Pleuroptya quadrimaculalis |

| Patania quadrimaculalis | }}

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Nagiella quadrimaculalis is a moth in the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae.{{cite web |website=www.pyraloidea.org |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fPages%2fReports%2fTaxonomyReport.aspx%3fAspxAutoDetectCookieSupport%3d1&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |title=Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ) |last1=Nuss |first1=Matthias |last2=Landry |first2=Bernard |last3=Mally |first3=Richard |last4=Vegliante |first4=Francesca |last5=Tränkner |first5=Andreas |last6=Bauer |first6=Franziska |last7=Hayden |first7=James |last8=Segerer |first8=Andreas |last9=Schouten |first9=Rob |last10=Li |first10=Houhun |last11=Trofimova |first11=Tatiana |last12=Solis |first12=M. Alma |author-link12=Maria Alma Solis |last13=De Prins |first13=Jurate |last14=Speidel |first14=Wolfgang |date=2003–2025 |access-date=2025-03-27 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Lu |first1=Xiao-Qiang |last2=Du |first2=Xi-Cui |name-list-style=amp |title=Revision of Nagiella Munroe (Lepidoptera, Crambidae), with the description of a new species from China |journal=ZooKeys |date=2020 |volume=964 |pages=143–159 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.964.55703 |doi-access=free |pmid=32939150 |pmc=7471130}} It is widely distributed in southern and eastern Asia and is known from Nepal, Northeast India (Sikkim), China (Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Gansu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Shandong, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Tibet, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian), the Russian Far East (Amur and Primorye regions, Kuriles),{{cite web |url=http://szmn.eco.nsc.ru/Lepidop/Pyraloid.htm |website=Siberian Zoological Museum |title=Pyraliodea collection of Siberian Zoological Museum }} Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima, Yakushima),{{cite web |url=http://www.jpmoth.org/Crambidae/Pyraustinae/Pleuroptya_quadrimaculalis.html |website=Japanese Moths |title=Pleuroptya quadrimaculalis (Kollar, [1844]) |language=ja }} Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia (including Borneo). It is also present in the former Équateur province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{cite web |first1=Jurate |last1=De Prins |first2=Willy |last2=De Prins |date=2023 |url=https://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/PLEUQUAD |title=Patania quadrimaculalis (Kollar, 1844) |website=Afromoths |access-date=2025-03-27}}

The wingspan is {{cvt|26|–|43|mm}}. The wings are brown. The larvae feed on Rhus chinensis (Anacardiaceae).

In the past, the species was placed in the genus Pleuroptya (now a synonym of Patania), of which Nagiella was long considered a synonym.

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