Moca chrysocosma is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1967. It is found on Luzon in the Philippines.[1]
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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. chrysocosma
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| Moca chrysocosma (Diakonoff, 1967)
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The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a blue-lilac gloss in certain lights, the markings bright yellow, well defined. There is a clavate patch along less than the anterior half of the costa, extending over the upper half of the base of the wing, posteriorly dilated into a rounded-triangular tooth almost to the middle of the wing, the lower edge of the patch concave, the posterior edge convex. A slightly oblique erect semi-oval moderate patch is found on two-thirds of the costa and there are faint markings of lilac-blue iridescence. A short transverse streak is found along the closing vein and a marginal line along the posterior fourth of the costa, in the apex and along the termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous, the dorsum with a narrow pale yellow streak.[2]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Moca chrysocosma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ Diakonoff, A. (1967). "Microlepidoptera of the Philippine Islands". United States National Museum Bulletin. 257: 192–193.
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