Biology:Moca roscida
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Immidae |
| Genus: | Moca |
| Species: | M. roscida
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| Moca roscida (Meyrick, 1922)
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Moca roscida is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil .[1]
The wingspan is 18–21 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a pale ochreous basal mark not reaching the margins and a darker subcostal streak from the base to one-third, edged beneath by a fine pale ochreous line towards the base, interrupted in the middle and edged above on the posterior half with pale greenish-ochreous irroration (sprinkles). The basal half, except near the base and costa, is irregularly irrorated with pale whitish greenish and the costal edge is shortly pale ochreous about two-thirds, beneath this a transverse patch of whitish-greenish irroration reaching halfway across the wing, surrounding a transverse discal mark of ground colour, its lower extremity edged on each side by a short longitudinal whitish mark. There is also some slight pale irroration between this and the dorsum and an irregular fascia of pale whitish-greenish irroration from the disc at four-fifths to the tornus and an indistinct transverse streak of pale irroration near the termen. A series of cloudy dark dots is found just before the termen, between these a terminal series of indistinct dots of pale ochreous irroration. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]
References
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Moca roscida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=121212.
- ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2: 482.
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Wikidata ☰ Q13482018 entry
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