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Moca niphostoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil.

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous, posteriorly bronzy tinged, irregularly irrorated (sprinkled) with 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.

References

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 8 September 2020.
2. Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2: 483. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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