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Moca ethirastis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Immidae
Genus:	Moca
Species:	M. ethirastis
Binomial name
Moca ethirastis (Meyrick, 1922)
Synonyms
Imma ethirastis Meyrick, 1922

Moca ethirastis is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru.

The wingspan is 18–22 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, the basal half irregularly strewn with pale greenish-ochreous scales, two successive darker dashes beneath the costa from the base suffusedly edged with these. A darker transverse mark is found on the end of the cell, partially edged with similar scales, connected with the costa by a suffused group, its lower extremity interrupting a pale greenish-ochreous longitudinal line from one-fourth to two-thirds of the disc. An angulated series of small groups of pale greenish-ochreous scales from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, some smaller and less distinct groups before the termen. The hindwings are dark grey, in males with a large expanded tuft of long ochreous-whitish hairs from the base lying beneath the forewings and spreading over the disc.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Moca ethirastis​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
2. Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2: 481. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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