Parascaeas uranophanes

Parascaeas uranophanes is a moth in the Depressariidae family, and the only species in the genus Parascaeas. It was described by Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Panama and Colombia.^[1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are blackish with a broad band of bright blue iridescence from the base along the costa throughout, continued as a much attenuated fascia around the termen to the tornus. There is an oblong blue-hyaline blotch in the middle of the disc. The hindwings are blue-hyaline with a moderate blackish streak along the costa, joining a patch at the apex which occupies one-fourth of the wing, this meeting a very broad terminal band which occupies the lower half of the wing to the base, but includes ill-defined hyaline submedian and subdorsal streaks from the base to the tornus.^[2]

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