Moca ethirastis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Immidae
Genus: Moca
Species:
M. ethirastis
Binomial name
Moca ethirastis
(Meyrick, 1922)
Synonyms
  • Imma ethirastis Meyrick, 1922

Moca ethirastis is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru.[1]

The wingspan is 18–22 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, the basal half irregularly strewn with pale greenish-ochreous scales, two successive darker dashes beneath the costa from the base suffusedly edged with these. A darker transverse mark is found on the end of the cell, partially edged with similar scales, connected with the costa by a suffused group, its lower extremity interrupting a pale greenish-ochreous longitudinal line from one-fourth to two-thirds of the disc. An angulated series of small groups of pale greenish-ochreous scales from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, some smaller and less distinct groups before the termen. The hindwings are dark grey, in males with a large expanded tuft of long ochreous-whitish hairs from the base lying beneath the forewings and spreading over the disc.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Moca ethirastis​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  2. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2: 481. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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