Symmoca vetusta
Symmoca vetusta is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Brazil.[1]
| Symmoca vetusta | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Autostichidae |
| Genus: | Symmoca |
| Species: | S. vetusta |
| Binomial name | |
| Symmoca vetusta Meyrick, 1931 | |
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white sprinkled with 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 first 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.[2]
References
- Savela, Markku, ed. (December 29, 2015). "Symmoca vetusta Meyrick, 1931". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (2-4): 72.
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