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Deoclona xanthoselene

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Deoclona xanthoselene is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Panama and Guyana. 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 prece
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0