Parascaeas
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| Genus: | Parascaeas Meyrick, 1936
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| Species: | P. uranophanes
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| Parascaeas uranophanes (Meyrick, 1931)
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Parascaeas is a monotypic moth genus in the family Depressariidae. Its only species, Parascaeas uranophanes, is found in Panama and Colombia. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick, the genus in 1936 and the species five years earlier in 1931.[1]
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are blackish with a broad band of bright blue iridescence from the base along the costa throughout, continued as a much attenuated fascia around the termen to the tornus. There is an oblong blue-hyaline blotch in the middle of the disc. The hindwings are blue-hyaline with a moderate blackish streak along the costa, joining a patch at the apex which occupies one-fourth of the wing, this meeting a very broad terminal band which occupies the lower half of the wing to the base, but includes ill-defined hyaline submedian and subdorsal streaks from the base to the tornus.[2]
References
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 8, 2015). "Parascaeas Meyrick, 1936". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (2-4): 41.