Moca niphostoma
| Moca niphostoma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Immidae |
| Genus: | Moca |
| Species: | M. niphostoma |
| Binomial name | |
| Moca niphostoma (Meyrick, 1922) | |
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Moca niphostoma is a moth in the Immidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil.[1]
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous, posteriorly bronzy-tinged, irregularly irrorated pale greenish, leaving the costa dark, with two dark spots anteriorly and larger blotches at the middle and three-fourths, the costal edge towards two/thirds white. There are two small suffused dark spots on the end of the cell, and a suffused dark blotch beneath, confluent with a lower, a suffused pale green-ochreous longitudinal mark on each side of the lower. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]
References
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Moca niphostoma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ Exotic Microlep. 2: 483
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