Paracraga innocens

Paracraga innocens is a moth in the family Dalceridae. 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.

Paracraga innocens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Dalceridae
Genus:
Paracraga
Species:
P. innocens
Binomial name
Paracraga innocens
Schaus, 1905
Synonyms
  • Paracraga oxydata Hopp, 1921

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]

References
  1. Dalceridae genus list
  2. Miller, S.E., 1994: Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153(4): 1–495. Full Article:


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