Ptocheuusa paupella, the light fleabane neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae.

It is found from central and southern Europe to the Ural Mountains.

The ground colour is buff, streaked with whitish and with darker speckling.

The forewings are light ochreous-yellow, with some black scales mostly arranged in longitudinal rows; margins, a median longitudinal streak from base to middle, an indistinct inwardly oblique slender fascia before middle and another at 3/4, and sometimes two or three faint longitudinal lines in disc posteriorly white.

[7] The larvae feed in the seedheads of Pulicaria dysenterica, Centaurea nigra and Inula crithmoides.