Bascantis
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| Genus: | Bascantis Meyrick, 1914
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| Species: | B. sirenica
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| Bascantis sirenica Meyrick, 1914[1]
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Bascantis is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tineidae.[2] It contains only one species, Bascantis sirenica, which is found in New Zealand.
The head and thorax are deep purple. The forewings are elongate and deep purple with a semioval ochreous-white spot on the middle of the costa. The hindwings are dark bronzy-fuscous, but lighter anteriorly.[3]
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