Prionapteryx indentella

{{Short description|Species of moth}}

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| genus = Prionapteryx

| species = indentella

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| authority = (Kearfott, 1908)

| synonyms = *Surattha indentella Kearfott, 1908

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Prionapteryx indentella, the buffalograss webworm, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William D. Kearfott in 1908.{{cite web |last=Nuss |first=M. |display-authors=etal |date=2003–2014 |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search |website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |accessdate=July 15, 2014}} It is found in the US from Kansas to Texas on the Great Plains.{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5327 |title=800774.00 – 5327 – Surattha indentella – Kearfott, 1908 |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=November 6, 2019}}

Adults are smoky ocherous brown. Females are larger and lighter in color. Adults are on wing from August to September in one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Bouteloua dactyloides.{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25083906 | jstor=25083906 | title=The Life History of the Buffalograss Webworm Surattha indentella Kearfott, in Kansas (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) | last1=Sorensen | first1=K. A. | last2=Thompson | first2=Hugh E. | journal=Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society | date=1979 | volume=52 | issue=2 | pages=282–296 }}