Moca radiata

Moca radiata is a moth in the Immidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1897. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon.^[1][2][3]

The wingspan is 17-18 mm. The forewings are dark olive-grey, with orange-ochreous lines marking the interspaces between the veins, the extreme base of the costa narrowly orange-ochreous. A distinct orange-ochreous line, commencing near the base beneath the costa, follows the upper edge of the cell to the middle of the wing-length, this is followed by some spots of the same colour about the upper angle of the cell, diverging obliquely downwards and nearly joining the outer end of a median streak of the same colour, which terminates in the direction of the base at half the length of the cell. There is also a line of the same colour along the fold and some suffusion of orange-ochreous scales beneath it. Beyond the end of the cell a series of 9 or 10 separate orange-ochreous lines diverge fan-like between the veins, and are margined, at their outer ends, by a distinct semicircle of the olive-grey ground-colour, which is followed by an orange-ochreous space, also semicircular, but not attaining the margins, the apical space being dark olive-grey. The hindwings are brown.^[4]

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