Deoclona xanthoselene

Deoclona xanthoselene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Deoclona
Species: D. xanthoselene
Binomial name
Deoclona xanthoselene
(Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Proclesis xanthoselene Walsingham, 1911

Deoclona xanthoselene is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Panama and Guyana.[1]

The wingspan is 18-20 mm. The forewings are brownish ochreous, thickly overlaid with minute steel-blue scales, giving an oily sheen to the wing-surface, especially along the margins. This steel-blue sheen becomes intensified gradually outwards, until it forms, in some lights, a clear steel-blue patch adjacent to the apex and termen, produced outward at the apex and tornus through the cilia and enclosing a semilunate terminal patch of bright yellow-ochreous, covering a small portion of the termen and including all the terminal cilia, except at the angles. A patch of bluish scaling at the end of the cell shows a tendency to divide into two spots, and is preceded by a similar patch at about one-third the length of the cell. The hindwings are shining, coppery yellowish.[2]

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