Moca ethirastis

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

Moca ethirastis
Scientific classification
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

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.