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Symmoca vetusta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Autostichidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Symmoca

Symmoca vetusta is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Brazil.

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white sprinkled fuscous, the costal edge blackish towards the base, there is minute blackish costal dot near the base. The stigmata are black, the discal moderate, remote, the plical small, obliquely beyond the fiĀrst discal, a small blackish dot at the end of the fold, slightly before the second discal. There is an inwards-oblique triangular blotch of fuscous suffusion from the costa at three-fourths, its apex touching the second discal. There are two or three minute black dots near before the lower part of the termen. The hindwings are pale grey.

References

Symmoca vetusta Wikipedia