Paracraga innocens

Paracraga innocens is a moth in the Dalceridae family. It was described by Schaus in 1905.^[1] It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and northern Brazil (Amazon Basin). The habitat consists of tropical moist and tropical premontane wet forests.

The length of the forewings is 9-11 mm for males and 12-14 mm for females. The forewings are white, suffused with rusty brown. There is a rusty patch along the costal margin past the end of the discal cell and a thin wavy brown line across the cell, around a brown spot and back down the wing to the anal angle. There are also brown dots on the veins at the outer margin and a brown dot near the base. The hindwings are white with brown marginal shading at the anal angle. Adults are on wing from October to July.^[2]

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