Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Depressariidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera | |
Genus Parascaeas
Meyrick, 1936 | ||
Parascaeas uranophanes is a moth in the Depressariidae family, and the only species in the genus Parascaeas. It was described by Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Panama and Colombia.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are blackish with a broad band of bright blue iridescence from the base along the costa throughout, continued as a much attenuated fascia around the termen to the tornus. There is an oblong blue-hyaline blotch in the middle of the disc. The hindwings are blue-hyaline with a moderate blackish streak along the costa, joining a patch at the apex which occupies one-fourth of the wing, this meeting a very broad terminal band which occupies the lower half of the wing to the base, but includes ill-defined hyaline submedian and subdorsal streaks from the base to the tornus.