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)
Synonyms
	Imma niphostoma Meyrick, 1922;

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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[1] 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.

[2] Exotic Microlep. 2: 483

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