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Paraspastis circographa

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Paraspastis circographa is a moth of the Depressariidae family and only species in the Paraspastis genus. It is found in Guyana. The wingspan is 17-18 mm. The forewings are light ochreous, with violet reflections, the costa and dorsum more or less suffused with brownish. There is a subcostal line of whitish suffusion from the base to one-third, and one along the upper margin of the cell, as well as a cloudy white ring, internally edged with greyish, lying across fold before the middle of the wing, and a larger similar ring occupying the posterior portion of the cell, these connected by a quadrate brown spot above the middle of the disc edged beneath with blackish. An elongate dark brown mark is found on the middle of the costa, preceded and followed by oblique white strigulae, the second s
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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