OriginBorrowed from Latin vitta.
- A fillet, or garland for the head.
- A longitudinal stripe.
“The curved black line behind the scutel is usually expanded, in connection with the metathoracic black vitta, into a broad black triangle, the apex of which does not quite attain the abdominal peduncl”
- An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.
Formsvittae(plural)