Catacometes hemiscia

Catacometes hemiscia is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Meyrick in 1883.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.[2]

Catacometes hemiscia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Catacometes
Species:	C. hemiscia
Binomial name
Catacometes hemiscia (Meyrick, 1883)
Synonyms
Heliocausta hemiscia Meyrick, 1883 Machimia picturata Turner, 1946

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are white, towards the costa faintly greyish-tinged and with a dark fuscous blotch on the inner margin, extending almost from the base to two-fifth, terminated above by the fold, posteriorly lighter and ill-defined. There is an ill-defined cloudy fuscous subquadrate blotch beyond this, extending on the inner margin from before the middle to three-fourth, reaching rather more than half across the wing. There is also a dark fuscous dot in the disc before the middle, confluent with the anterior angle of this blotch, and a small dark fuscous spot in the disc beyond middle, connected with the posterior edge of the blotch near the inner margin by a curved row of three smaller fuscous spots. There is a dark fuscous ill-defined partially interrupted transverse line from just below the costa at two-third to before the anal angle, angulated outwards in the disc. A straight suffused dark fuscous line is found from the costa a little before the apex to the hindmargin just above the anal angle, beyond which the ground colour is suffused with pale grey, forming a narrow hindmarginal band. The hindwings are whitish-grey, towards the base whitish.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Catacometes hemiscia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
2. Catacometes at funet
3. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 7 (4) : 472