Moca niphostoma

Description

Moca niphostoma is a moth in the Immidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil. The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous, posteriorly bronzy-tinged, irregularly irrorated pale greenish, leaving the costa dark, with two dark spots anteriorly and larger blotches at the middle and three-fourths, the costal edge towards two/thirds white. There are two small suffused dark spots on the end of the cell, and a suffused dark blotch beneath, confluent with a lower, a suffused pale green-ochreous longitudinal mark on each side of the lower. The hindwings are dark grey.