Moca oxystoma

Description

Moca oxystoma is a moth in the Immidae family. It was described by John David Bradley in 1962. It is found on Vanuatu in the South Pacific. The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are chestnut brown mixed with mummy brown, the basal third overlaid with blackish, edged distally with scattered iridescent violet-plumbeous scales. There are three moderately large well-defined mustard-yellow elliptical spots with suffused fuscous centres on the costa, the first beyond the blackish basal area, the second a little beyond the middle, the third at about three-fourths. There is an elongate transverse blackish bar at the end of the cell (along the discocellulars), a sprinkling of iridescent violaceous scales beyond. There is a small blackish dot contiguous with the inner margin of the third costal marking and a similar pre-apical dash on the costa. The termen is outlined with a thin blackish line in which are set minute pale mustard-yellow dots at the end of the radial veins. The hindwings are light fuscous, the basal half thinly scaled and subhyaline.